Thread: Author Sort When Author Has Three Names
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Old 01-04-2014, 08:58 PM   #9
davidfor
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Originally Posted by acgref View Post
I did that and changed it so that it appears as Baker Kline, Christina and in the metadata, it appears that way and it's green now instead of red. After I load it onto my Kobo though, it's still sorted under K, not B.
That is the way the sorting works on the Kobo device. Unless there is a comma in the authors name, it will use the last word in the name as the surname and sort by that. But, there is a comma in the name, it is assumed to be "LN, FN". You can send this to the device using a plugboard to set the author to author_sort.

If you want more details and some alternatives, there has been a bit of discussion on this in the Kobo forum. A search should find it.
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