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Originally Posted by Vaesse
Okay, I'm more than my normal stupid today, as I've been experiencing my first ever seasonal allergy symptoms and/or a MAJOR bad head cold... but does this basically say that (assuming I've run all my books through Calibre) author sort on my Kindle will sort by last name while the author column on the Kindle will show first then last (as usual)? If so, this is AWESOME and something I actually submitted a bug report to Amazon about.  |
This change has no affect on what is on your Kindle. It is only what is shown in the Edit Collections window in the plugin.
You can use Calibre to set the book's internal author's name to Lastname, Firstname using the Preferences->Output->Mobi->Use author sort as author (once you've setup all your calibre author_sort fields to be lastname, firstname) and then resend to Kindle.
I believe the Kindle does sort by lastname but show firstname lastname if the book has the author defined as lastname, firstname. But I think I'll have to go and recheck all this just to be 100% sure - my focus was on getting Edit to work like calibre's sorting.
EDIT: well, it does appear to work that way. If I set some books by an author to firstname, lastname, and others to lastname, firstname, then the Kindle sorts them differently. Of course, this only works with MOBI books where the name is embedded. It may work with PDF too as the Kindle does seem to be able to extract PDF author information (though my plugin can't), but I haven't tested that.