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Originally Posted by frostschutz
I don't understand the problem. All my books have author "First Last" but author sort "Last, First" and that's how it's supposed to be. Is it not? I mean isn't that why there are two author fields in the first place, one that shows the author the regular way (the way it would be printed on a book and the way its used for generating covers and the like), and one that determines sorting?
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Originally Posted by theducks
Some people want it otherwise  |
Not only that, but some ereader devices require it otherwise. If the author field is FN LN, Kindle will display it backwards on the reader. Instead, it expects LN, FN which the Kindle software then parses to display FN LN on the reader display and then sorts by last name.
Some other devices merely display whatever's there, so the user can put it as he/she wishes to see it on the device.