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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
@44reader. I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your effort to help me and that I'm not blowing you off. However, it's late and I need to put ample asset in bed before I start having conversations with elephants in my bedroom (and I don't even drink!). I will take a harder look at what you wrote tomorrow or Monday; I have to digest things in small chunks or my mind shuts down.
Thanks!
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^^ Cool.
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
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.
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^^ Don't forget...
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
When downloading metadata, make sure you have the "Swap author names from FN LN to LN, FN" option checked if you are overwriting the Authors field.
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That will save you most of what you talk about in your post that I've just quoted. Downloading metadata will give you LN, FN automatically. Imagine that!
EDIT: Oh, I missed paw3pals' post saying the same thing. Can't do any harm to repeat it anyway (again).
