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Originally Posted by alansplace
if you set the author name in the calibre metadata as last,first and the author sort tweak to:
copy : copy author to author_sort without modification
i would think that would do what you want. i did not test this.
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Sorry if I'm being dense, but is that missing space after the comma intentional? If so, I imagine you might be right... My own work around would have been omitting the comma entirely, and then copying the author value "Wong David" to the author_sort field. Unfortunately, both of our solutions are probably not completely satisfactory. Speaking only for myself and not the OP, I want it to display "Bloe, Joe", not "Bloe,Joe" or "Bloe Joe".
Frankly, I was just posting to let the OP know that in my experience, there was no efficient way to achieve exactly what we wanted. For my part, I'd already resigned myself to this, having stopped using the main library browsing feature in the Kindle almost completely, opting instead to sort via Kindle Collections (PS - thanks thanks thanks to the author of that life-saving Calibre plugin).
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@speakingtohe - Gah! replied too early. Let me check this out real quick!
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@speakingtohe - I just checked the info three separate ways: 1) the Edit Metadata command, 2) selecting the book and pressing "I", and 3) opening the book in Calibre and pressing the "i" (metadata) icon at the bottom left of the icon panel. All three showed the author to be in the form of "Bloe, Joe", as I had hoped/expected. Perhaps I've missed something in your instructions. If so, let me know (obviously). But so far I'm sticking the Kindle-side auto-adjust theory.
I was actually only being slightly facetious about Kindle being know-it-alls. I don't imagine that it needs to be particularly smart to automatically check for commas in an author field and convert it accordingly.
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@speakingtohe - All of the above notwithstanding, I learned something new as I didn't know (although I suspected) that there was a difference between the user-edited metadata and the embedded metadata. Consequently you seem the person to ask: is the only way to apply the user-edited metadata to the embedded metadata by reconverting each book (as you recommend in your 2nd post)? Or is there some way to do this without messing around with the fickle conversion Gods (ie, a command that says, "embed .opf data in ebook")?