Hi SteveK and thanks for your answer,
since you are such a zealot compared to junior me here (something tells me that in real life I could probably be your grandfather...
), you must know the answer to this too: when I set up my library in calibre, I make sure that the metadata is ok so for example the sorting by author works fine. but when I download it to kindle, it messes the sort up - when I select sort by author, it doesn't quite work! this is really a kindle issue, I think, so I should really go and join a kindle forum, but it is late and I am too lazy so I thought I will ask you.
thanks in advance,
Dani