[deleteriousone]

Thank you for answering I guess I have need clarification in my request.

"You could use the Look and Feel preference to set your 'Genre' tag, while importing just those folders in a single Genre.

BTW it is Piers Anthony"

True as the the tag which is what I did as a test, however the directory structure does not contain the Genre and I still would need to mark each book as they are imported.

As for the name when writing the post I copied it directly from the Calibre screen, I guess I should have proofread the post a bit better.

With a directory structure like that, you can read the series, series_index

I am able to display the series and in order in Calibre just, for use in the program series order in the file name is not needed. It is just how I prefer to have my documents organized as it can help when listing item in a alpha order on other devices.

This may be a mistype on your part, but you don't get to decide how Calibre stores its books at all.

When I go to manage authors and change the name from Anthony, Peirs to Anthony, Piers Calibre will change the directory structure for the author from Anthony_Peirs to Anthony_Piers.

Go to the tweaks section of the preferences and find a tweak called "author sort name algorithm". Set it to "copy". Save and restart. Now, fill in your authors as LN, FN. If you have some books already added to the library, in the tag browser, right-click on an author and select "manage authors". Make sure that the authors you have show as LN, FN the way you want, then hit "recalculate author_sort values".

I have done all you suggested above before started this thread.

This is at the root of my problem and the main reason for this post I have been trying for a couple of days to import books and have the author names automatically be show as LN, FN and have had no success.

I have thousands of ebooks (from a purchased dvd collection) and am trying to get around having to manage every author to be LN, FN.


I am testing using Calibre to consolidate my ebooks instead of just using directory structure to search my various collections. I would not bother since the directory structure has worked find for that last few years of collecting (reading on the PC) but the unexpected gift of a Kindle # has me looking for a better way.

~ ted