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1. Apply the tweak: author_sort_copy_method="copy"
2. Edit and change author for all books to ln fn. For example "Smith John".
3. Select all books and Edit Metadata. Select update author_sort.
Done.
When you add new books, make sure that you add them with author in the format ln fn.
I suggest you first try this on a small test library with just a few books.
Step 2 can be done fast and efficiently on many books by using bulk metadata edit and search and replace with regular expressions. But exactly how depends on what the author field contains now. And especially if that format is consistently used.
Please note that some functions in calibre most likely will not work properly any longer. For instance the quality check plugin, but maybe also metadata download. Possibly other things as well.
Last edited by Adoby; 11-12-2013 at 09:44 AM.
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