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Originally Posted by xcfordan :
One quick question/issue: in the "edit collecitons manually" window, is it possible to have the author column sort by last name instead of by first name? Same as it is done in Calibre?
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Ok, I was looking at this again while writing up the above post and I realized the Kindle is actually automatically converting lastname,firstname to firstname lastname (or at least from the limited testing I did) for its display. And even if you set the book author to lastname,firstname, the Edit Collections window doesn't show that as the author and doesn't sort on it like I thought.
I've tested some code that will now sort on the author as its found in the book but displays the author as firstname lastname in Edit Collections (with a tooltip showing the author as found in the book). However, this will only work for Mobi files as the plugin can only read the data in a book for Mobi files. So any other file types like txt or pdf will sort by firstname lastname and not what is stored in them. I might be able to override this for books in Calibre, but haven't at the moment.
I'll release it after the next version of Calibre as I've had to make some changes to the plugin to handle an update in Calibre.
If you update calibre to the new version of Calibre when its released, you'll get an error message if you try to change the type of toolbar icon in Customize, although it will change okay after a restart.