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LizPhillips · 01-17-2012, 05:57 PM

Hi, I've been using Calibre for a while and have now decided to use some of it's excellent features to better manage Series, Author_sort etc.

Currently I have any series information in the title field eg Bond 01 - Casino Royale. I split the info into the correct fields (seperated title & series) & used the plugboard template {series}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title} from the sticky and this worked great

I had both author and author_sort as LN, FN so that on the Kindle it was sorted by LN. I changed all my authors to FN LN (but left author_sort as LN, FN) and now the Kindle is sorting by FN LN as expected.

So as per various posts on the forums I have tried the plugboards
mobi - Kindle2 - {author_sort:re(\, (.).*?( &|$),\, \1\2)} - authors
mobi - Kindle2 - {author_sort} - authors
mobi - Kindle2 - {author_sort} - author_sort
I have checked the box in Preferences>Output Options>MOBI Output to Use author sort for author, removed books, reconverted & resent to device

So far nothing I have tried has any effect on the display or sorting of the authors on the Kindle - which is confusing especially since the title/series plugboard worked first try.

Please does anyone have any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?

01-17-2012, 05:57 PM	#1
LizPhillips Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kobo Sage	Problem sending Author_Sort data to Kindle2 Hi, I've been using Calibre for a while and have now decided to use some of it's excellent features to better manage Series, Author_sort etc. Currently I have any series information in the title field eg Bond 01 - Casino Royale. I split the info into the correct fields (seperated title & series) & used the plugboard template {series}{series_index:0>2s\| - \| - }{title} from the sticky and this worked great I had both author and author_sort as LN, FN so that on the Kindle it was sorted by LN. I changed all my authors to FN LN (but left author_sort as LN, FN) and now the Kindle is sorting by FN LN as expected. So as per various posts on the forums I have tried the plugboards mobi - Kindle2 - {author_sort:re(\, (.).*?( &\|$),\, \1\2)} - authors mobi - Kindle2 - {author_sort} - authors mobi - Kindle2 - {author_sort} - author_sort I have checked the box in Preferences>Output Options>MOBI Output to Use author sort for author, removed books, reconverted & resent to device So far nothing I have tried has any effect on the display or sorting of the authors on the Kindle - which is confusing especially since the title/series plugboard worked first try. Please does anyone have any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?