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Originally Posted by meme
Yes. author_sort isn't one of the visible columns in Calibre so I no longer include it in the list of Calibre columns to show in customization. Before I was extracting all available label information for a book, but some labels like author_sort (or title_sort, isbn) aren't user columns in Calibre so they don't have proper names (e.g. Author Sort) defined by Calibre and instead of coding for the special case I dropped it.
You can still use author_sort by defining a custom column with author_sort and including that custom column in the plugin.
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As I store the same values in author and author_sort myself the net effect of having to use the author field is not an issue for me (as I store my authors with a display name in LN, FN format). But surely you are now forcing users who store their authors FN LN to setup a plugboard to modify the {author} value if they want sorting by author on their Kindle to work correctly?
Rather than just totally discarding any previous configuration in your plugin that was on author_sort could you please instead migrate it into the authors field? Otherwise people like me have to reconfigure from scratch when they use this version, trying to remember what prefix I used etc. That means having to step by step give a pile of instructions to my parents for instance who are using the previous version.