Hello everyone,
I've purchased a Kobo Aura last weekend, after being a (mostly) happy owner of a Touch for a year and a half.
Obviously I wanted to populate my library as optimally as possible and I'm one of those people who want their library sorted like author -> series -> series index.
Previously, I used the calibre metadata plugboard to add the series & series index to the books' title (using the "{series:| - | }{series_index:0>2s}{title}" -> title template), but browsing these forums I found
this post where people mention they appended the series information to the author field.
I tried this, using "{authors}{series:| - | }{series_index:0>2s}" -> author as a template. I like the look I get, but I noticed something very weird, which has led to my posting here...
The authors as displayed in the library look like this:
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 01
Jean M. Auel - EC 01
which looks ok. I expected them to be sorted like this, when I sort by author:
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 01
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 02
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 03
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 04
Jean M. Auel - EC 01
Jean M. Auel - EC 02
Jean M. Auel - EC 03
Jean M. Auel - EC 04
etc.
However, they come out sorted like this:
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 01
Jean M. Auel - EC 01
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 02
Jean M. Auel - EC 02
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 03
Jean M. Auel - EC 03
Douglas Adams - HHGTTG 04
Jean M. Auel - EC 04
Obviously this is just two series, when I load more series all #01's get sorted on top, then #02's and so on.
When testing the template calibre sorts the field as I expected, so somehow this seems to be a Kobo (Aura) thing.
Does anyone have an idea how the author field ends up sorted like this, and/or can suggest something to make the field sort as I expected?