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KNickerson · 04-13-2012, 08:37 AM

I found the 'use author sort in tag browser' tweak later, and that gets me 90% of the way. I keep thinking it should be a simple 'custom column' possibility, to get the last 10% but no.

The 'grey box' solution seems like an ongoing maintenance nightmare as new books are added, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding. The idea of doing a full backup to test isn't appealing, but it feels like doing the whole restructure of author names to LN,FN would make every last 'author sort' name show up in red and irritate me to no end. As it is, the metadata screens all look lovely. Changing the 'author name' field to LN,FN would be wrong from a professional librarian's point of view.

So, it's "One common request" ... but it's pretty hard for a user to do.

04-13-2012, 08:37 AM	#3
KNickerson Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Nook	I found the 'use author sort in tag browser' tweak later, and that gets me 90% of the way. I keep thinking it should be a simple 'custom column' possibility, to get the last 10% but no. The 'grey box' solution seems like an ongoing maintenance nightmare as new books are added, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding. The idea of doing a full backup to test isn't appealing, but it feels like doing the whole restructure of author names to LN,FN would make every last 'author sort' name show up in red and irritate me to no end. As it is, the metadata screens all look lovely. Changing the 'author name' field to LN,FN would be wrong from a professional librarian's point of view. So, it's "One common request" ... but it's pretty hard for a user to do.