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Old 04-20-2012, 12:12 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
It is not just you:
Where did this desire for Sort on first name come from?

Telephone books file by Last Name,
Library Card Catalogs (remember those ) were always by last name.
Just about everything written about me was filed by my Last Name.
I have a library that contains stories downloaded from various web sites. While some of the authors names look like "normal names", a lot are "different". An example is "Old Man with a Pen". It just doesn't feel right that that should be under "Pen, Old Man with a". For that library, I use the author unchanged for the author_sort. The library I use for the more traditionally published books does use "ln, fn". Yes, it does get confusing, but I found the other way for the web published was just as confusing.

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If you filed my Close Neighbors by first name, we would all be filed together. There are 5 of us with the same first name
I was in a high school class of about 35 which had five David's. We just pretended it was for one of the others when the teacher called our name.
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