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Originally Posted by kiwidude
This is my understanding FWIW, I store authors LN, FN too...
The "Current tweaks" box at the bottom, is where you can put any values that you want to have different, i.e. overriding the default behaviour of Calibre.
In your case, paste the following into the bottom box:
Code:
author_sort_copy_method = 'copy'
That tweak fixes the problem for any *new* authors you add. Without the tweak above, you typing in a new author of "Smith, James" would have the sort stored as "James, Smith", because the default behaviour is to "invert" the name which is *not* what you want. Instead you want Calibre to *copy* the value from author, so that both will have "Smith, James" stored in it. Having applied the tweak above you will have that problem sorted from now on. |
From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU SO MUCH, this has been driving me crazy from forever. I have been manually changing this and now with this solution - done! I knew there was a way to do this within the system just never had the time to figure it out and besides, I never would have messed with the Tweaks without some help. Unlike Lady, all of my authors are already LN, FN so I don't have to fix that issue, but going forward, just knowing all books added will be the way I want is invaluable.
Special thanks to Lady Fitzgerald for asking the question.