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Originally Posted by dwanthny
Not to be picky, but it was mentioned in post 2 by theducks and post 4 by me...
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I went back to post 2 and, yes, it was there. It completely slud (is that a word?) by me because I got the impression there were two plug ins, one by kiwidude but I was going to have to figure out what the plug in was for myself (and I had no clue how to do that), and another one called the QC plug in (which I couldn't find because I didn't know where to look and, if I did, I would have blown by it anyway since I would have been looking for QC, not Quality Control; yes, my mind ADD "blessed" mind works like that).
When I went back to post 4, again, yes, it was there. I'm guessing I missed it because I was brain fried after trying to make sense of the directions in the manual that you linked. You even had the path to get to the plug in but, even when I just now went back, I had to stare at it for a while before it registered because it was all merging into a blur in my mind.
I apologize to you and theducks for that misunderstanding.
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
...Applying the tweak though is essential for future use and author sorting. The only reason this tweak was created was for folks that insist on reversing the default. If you continue doing things exactly as you are you might be fine in the future, but if you grow at all in your understanding of calibre using any new learned techniques could cause problems with authors not sorting correctly. For now though, if you found something that works for you, march on...
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I'm still struggling (and failing miserably) to understand how not having the tweek can cause future problems, especially since the tweek does create more work for me. When I scan a book to an image only PDF (which is how I will be getting most of the books I will be adding; I have way too many to scan, OCR and edit), all I use for the filename is the ISBN (I found it a lot simpler than typing title, author, etc. into the title and maintaining a consistent format calibre can understand, especially when most or all of it wound up being overwritten anyway). When I add several books, I highlight all of them, then go into the Metadata editor and edit them individually. To get the metadata, I used to copy the ISBN from the title field, paste it into the ISBN field (now the ID field), then download the metadata. That almost invariably results in the author being entered as FN LN. If the tweek is in place, I would have to retype the author as LN, FN. Without the tweek, all I have to do is click on the box to the right of the author and hold it a whole half second until the menu comes up, then click Copy Author Sort to Author (faster than the copy/paste I was going to use). I then move on to the next book until I've updated all of them, then hit OK. It seems to work ok, even if I add a "real" e-book (so far, all epubs), since, even though "real" e-books are tagged with the author, etc. (the author shows up as FN LN in the author field), I still download additional metadata that overwrites fields (I set it that way on purpose).
Btw, I did eventually find (by dumb luck) yesterday or the day before (I don't remember exactly now) and installed the Quality Control plug in. I'm still hazy (think London Fog) on how it can benefit me.
Thanks for your patience!