[guspasho]

I have another problem with my Kindle Touch I cannot figure out. I used Calibre to edit my books' metadata and now no books show up when I sort by author. Only the New Oxford dictionary in an Archive folder. Not even the user guide that comes with the device.

I used Calibre to edit the user data in my library. Stuff like proper capitalization, ignoring indefinite articles when determining placement in a list but still displaying them (ie Stranger, The, for sorting purposes, but The Stranger when displayed). Sme thing with author names. Author names should be sorted by last name, but ideally display the full name, (ie Camus, Albert for sorting purposes, but Albert Camus when displayed.) And some decent cover art would be nice. Even Amazon is pretty bad about metadata when it comes to their free offerings. Free Lord Dunsany books have the author "LORD DUNSANY". Rage! Some books are by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, some by an un-knighted Arthur Conan Doyle. Et cetera.

Then I uploaded the books to my Kindle. That caused problems with multiple books, and books that I had deleted refusing to go away, even though the Kindle couldn't find them when I tried selecting them. So I factory reset the Kindle Touch and re-uploaded all the books. I have about 175 books. Immediately they all show up when I sort by most recent, title, or collection, but none when I sort by author. I've read a lot of users saying it takes a ridiculously long time to index so I waited overnight. However, no change by morning. Help! I'd really like to use the author sort!

Also, I'm getting pretty close to giving up with this thing and returning it for a Kindle 4. I already paid Amazon (post-sale) to get the ads removed. Can I get Amazon to forward that credit to another device when the Touch is as buggy as it is? Thanks.