[JMikeD]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

I tested a few ways of entering of Charles Dickens. From mobils (spaces added for clarity):

Dickens, Charles:       A Tale of Two Cities (D,C)    (./Dickens_TTC_DcC.mobi)
Dickens:                       A Tale of Two Cities (D)         (./Dickens_TTC_D.mobi)
Charles, Dickens:       A Tale of Two Cities (C,D)     (./Dickens_TTC_CcD.mobi)
Dickens Charles:        A Tale of Two Cities (DC)      (./Dickens_TTC_DC.mobi)
Charles Dickens:        A Tale of Two Cities (CD)      (./Dickens_TTC_CD.mobi)
Dickens, Sir Charles: A Tale of Two Cities (DcSC) (./Dickens_TTC_DcSC.mobi)
dickens, charles:         A Tale of Two Cities (d,c)       (./Dickens_TTC_d,c.mobi)

Dickens was not a Sir but I added that as a test.

See the attached screenshots in sort by author mode. The rules appear to be simple (but I may be missing some end cases):

1. Sort order is from the Author text string, upper and lower case are equivalent
2. YYY, XXX displays as XXX YYY
3. All others display "as is"

Exactly. You have two of the Charles Dickens files that get indexed with the C's instead of with the D's. That's my point. I have books from Amazon that are getting indexed incorrectly. And two of them can't be fixed with mobi2mobi, while a number of them could.

I went through and fixed 50 or so files I got from here, Feedbooks, and so forth, and now everything is getting sorted correctly except for those two files. I looked at them with a hex editor, and they don't seem have the metadata in the same form or near the same place as others I've looked at.