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hatman · 05-02-2014, 01:21 AM

Good to hear, even though my experience hasn't been the same. But of course I might have overlooked something.

During my attempts, the Kindle has always shown authors as "FN LN", but only books I've converted with Calibre sort by LN. If I e.g. download a mobi from Gutenberg project and transfer it via Calibre, then it sorts by FN.

Edit: I tried the 'Use Author sort for Author' with a completely new book and it worked! I guess the metadata somehow didn't update with my previous efforts, even though I did always try to delete and resend the book after any changes.

E2: Okay I think I grasped it but correct me if I'm wrong: just set the 'use author sort for author' option enabled and Kindle will sort most of the books by last name. The books sorted by first name have to be reconverted to mobi (because they had the metadata in a format calibre can't edit).

05-02-2014, 01:21 AM	#41
hatman Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: Kindle 4NT	Good to hear, even though my experience hasn't been the same. But of course I might have overlooked something. During my attempts, the Kindle has always shown authors as "FN LN", but only books I've converted with Calibre sort by LN. If I e.g. download a mobi from Gutenberg project and transfer it via Calibre, then it sorts by FN. Edit: I tried the 'Use Author sort for Author' with a completely new book and it worked! I guess the metadata somehow didn't update with my previous efforts, even though I did always try to delete and resend the book after any changes. E2: Okay I think I grasped it but correct me if I'm wrong: just set the 'use author sort for author' option enabled and Kindle will sort most of the books by last name. The books sorted by first name have to be reconverted to mobi (because they had the metadata in a format calibre can't edit). Last edited by hatman; 05-16-2014 at 07:12 PM.