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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Jeannie, as I said in my post paw3pals laid it all out for you in their post and I mentioned it as well - there is a button on the Manage Authors dialog which will do them all at once for you, once you verify that the current way the author sort field is populated as the values you now want to display for the author just hit the magic "copy all author sort values to author" button...
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That wasn't what I just asked about (and I have looked at Manage Authors but I'm not ready to make that commitment just yet). My concern right now is to get calibre to enter the authors of NEW books as LN, FN without my having to manually change it in each new book I add before I worry about changing the existing ones. It may not be worth changing the existing ones if adding new books is going to turn into a pain in my ample asset.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
...As for automatically putting a name into LN, FN format for new books, no calibre does not have that feature. However the Quality Check plugin has a feature to do this which you can assign to a keyboard shortcut. So if you import the author and it is already LN, FN due to your regular expression or book metadata then all is fine and you have nothing to do. If calibre sees the author as FN LN then you need to flip it, which the QC plugin has a feature to do to save you the typing and without having to enter the Edit Metadata dialog.
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I find it really hard to believe a program as sophisticated as calibre would be unable to do something as simple as enter authors as LN, FN when adding a book. That said, your comment, "...if you import the author and it is already LN, FN due to your regular expression...", caught my eye. Hunh? Can you explain what you mean by my regular expression? Where would this be; where and how would I set it up?
I appreciate your patience with me. I'm not a complete dummy (heck, I even gradjiated frum colludge) but these kind of things are completely above my head.