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Old 06-02-2012, 08:37 PM   #5
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Thanks, worked great!
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Originally Posted by Synamon View Post
It hurt my brain to look at the Author column sorted by last name, but displaying FN LN, so I made a custom column for Author LN and populated it with author_sort. It sorts by last name and displays LN, FN and I hide the Author column from view.
Synamon,

Thanks for the info. Easy to follow and it worked great! For the last couple of months, I tried some complicated fixes to a simple problem. Everything I did actually modified the Calibre Library. Your fix didn't really change anything except for the display of information ... exactly what I wanted. I went ahead and used the same approach for Titles using title_sort.

Now my Calibre screen has the columns I want ... and they display how I want them to look ... with zero impact getting things loaded onto my Nook.

Elegant simplicity. Thanks again!
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