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SHydroxide · 01-12-2011, 11:50 PM

Okay I have played with this for an hour and my brain is going to explode if I pursue it any longer.

For whatever reason, I have exported from Calibre about 900 books to my Kindle 3, and when I tell my Kindle to sort the books by author it is sorting them by their first name instead of their last name.

All of the books have the Author set as Fn Ln (so Virginia Woolf or Kurt Vonnegut) and I guess the Kindle is supposed to magically figure out to sort by last name? And this has something to do with the "Author_sort" field in Calibre?

Can someone just tell me what I'm doing wrong so that my Kindle will sort correctly? If I have to re-type all the author names so they're "Vonnegut, Kurt" I will kill myself.

Thanks!

01-12-2011, 11:50 PM	#1
SHydroxide Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Kindle "Sort by Author" is Sorting by First Name Okay I have played with this for an hour and my brain is going to explode if I pursue it any longer. For whatever reason, I have exported from Calibre about 900 books to my Kindle 3, and when I tell my Kindle to sort the books by author it is sorting them by their first name instead of their last name. All of the books have the Author set as Fn Ln (so Virginia Woolf or Kurt Vonnegut) and I guess the Kindle is supposed to magically figure out to sort by last name? And this has something to do with the "Author_sort" field in Calibre? Can someone just tell me what I'm doing wrong so that my Kindle will sort correctly? If I have to re-type all the author names so they're "Vonnegut, Kurt" I will kill myself. Thanks!