Hullo! I've only just got Calibre; don't know what took me so long since I've been enjoying e books for several years. At present my collection is about 4000 items (mostly.lits) and I will be getting a nook Colour e reader in a few days. (I love my big brother!!!) I am presently trying to get all my things in order so I can load them to a micro sd card for my Nook.
My only issue is that I cannot make my Calibre library display my items alphabetically according to authors' surnames. This leads me to much annoyance when I'd like to check which items I have and what's still to be added.

And it's also wasting a lot of time, I could be spending reading!
I'm sure it's just some little thing I haven't learnt yet. I tried searching the forum for an answer to this issue and maybe it
is in there and I just don't get it? Thanks in advance for any help.