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LeabharOm · 12-27-2012, 04:40 PM

Hi all. Apologies in advance if there is a blindingly obvious solution to this issue but I'm at my wits end here

What I'm trying to do is use Calibre to transfer ebooks from my PC to my Kindle 4 in such a way that the Kindle can sort by author surname (while ideally still displaying FirstName, Lastname). Currently the Kindle will only sort by first name

Now I've had a look through the site already. So I've used Calibre to set the author sort in the metadata to LastName, FirstName (which works fine in Calibre) and I've converted the files to .mobi (being sure to check 'Use author sort for author' box). But this doesn't appear to work: when I transfer to my Kindle it still sorts the files by first name. So 'Albert Camus' before 'Mikhail Bukgakov', etc

So does anyone have any advice? Am I missing something obvious or is there some way I can figure out what's going wrong?

12-27-2012, 04:40 PM	#1
LeabharOm Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	Author sort by surname in Kindle? Hi all. Apologies in advance if there is a blindingly obvious solution to this issue but I'm at my wits end here What I'm trying to do is use Calibre to transfer ebooks from my PC to my Kindle 4 in such a way that the Kindle can sort by author surname (while ideally still displaying FirstName, Lastname). Currently the Kindle will only sort by first name Now I've had a look through the site already. So I've used Calibre to set the author sort in the metadata to LastName, FirstName (which works fine in Calibre) and I've converted the files to .mobi (being sure to check 'Use author sort for author' box). But this doesn't appear to work: when I transfer to my Kindle it still sorts the files by first name. So 'Albert Camus' before 'Mikhail Bukgakov', etc So does anyone have any advice? Am I missing something obvious or is there some way I can figure out what's going wrong?