Thread: Calibre library management for newbies
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Old 02-06-2012, 11:39 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by renzii View Post
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.
Calibre has Preference and Tweak options to control display and sorting (does require consistent data entry )
What you get depends on how you enter the names in the first place

IIRC Calibre defaults to expecting Firstname Lastname on Entry and will automatically sort by Last name (the display is still Fn Ln, but the sort order is by last name).

There is a tweak that changes how Jr. Dr. Phd. ... are handled.
Individual Author names (as in all books by), sorting can be managed by
the 'Manage Authors, right -click option in the Tag Browser.
Individual (Book Level) Author sort is set in the Metadata Editor (and should normally be green if it matches the name in the Manage Authors sort value)
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