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HarryT · 08-27-2013, 05:51 AM

I've noticed a curious problem with the latest monthly release of eBooks from Baen in Mobi format.

Baen (annoyingly) always deliver books with the author metadata set to, for example, "Robert A. Heinlein" rather than "Heinlein, Robert A.", so the first thing I always do after adding the book to Calibre is to edit the metadata and change both the "author" and "author sort" fields to the "surname, forename" format which I prefer, and then send the book to my Kindle PW.

The problem is that, for all the books released in this month's Baen monthly subscription package, the resulting books are sorting on the Kindle by the author's first name, not their surname. Eg, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein is sorting under "Robert" in author sort mode, not under "Heinlein". I've deleted the book from the Kindle, re-edited the metadata in Calibre to make sure that I really had changed it, and re-sent the book to the Kindle. No difference.

If I convert the book from Mobi to AZW3 format, and then re-send it to the Kindle, the book sorts correctly under "Heinlein", so it looks as if Calibre is not correctly setting the metadata for the Mobi version of the book.

This is with Calibre 0.9.44.

08-27-2013, 05:51 AM	#1
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Problem with Kindle author sort with Baen Mobi books I've noticed a curious problem with the latest monthly release of eBooks from Baen in Mobi format. Baen (annoyingly) always deliver books with the author metadata set to, for example, "Robert A. Heinlein" rather than "Heinlein, Robert A.", so the first thing I always do after adding the book to Calibre is to edit the metadata and change both the "author" and "author sort" fields to the "surname, forename" format which I prefer, and then send the book to my Kindle PW. The problem is that, for all the books released in this month's Baen monthly subscription package, the resulting books are sorting on the Kindle by the author's first name, not their surname. Eg, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" by Robert A. Heinlein is sorting under "Robert" in author sort mode, not under "Heinlein". I've deleted the book from the Kindle, re-edited the metadata in Calibre to make sure that I really had changed it, and re-sent the book to the Kindle. No difference. If I convert the book from Mobi to AZW3 format, and then re-send it to the Kindle, the book sorts correctly under "Heinlein", so it looks as if Calibre is not correctly setting the metadata for the Mobi version of the book. This is with Calibre 0.9.44.