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Originally Posted by chaley
At this point I gave up and tossed my changes into the trash can. Going further isn't worth anything to me, because the only program I have that cares undoes the work. Perhaps the real Kindle behaves differently? I have no idea, but Isherwood's post strongly implies that it converts Blogs, Joe to Joe Blogs. If so, I don't see the point of using author_sort instead of author.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Out of curiosity, if the kindle is given 'Last, First', is there no way to make it display Last, First? It switching them back to First Last would drive me crazy. I went to a lot of trouble to ensure all authors in my library are entered Last, First, and I want to see them that way. Hmmm... perhaps *this* is why someone asked for a tweak to compute author_sort values without the comma, as in 'Last First'.
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The real Kindle also turns names around if there is a comma in there.
'Dickens, Charles' will be displayed as "Charles Dickens", but sorted on the last name. I fracking HATE that. I am used to having my books sorted in "Lastname, Firstname" configuration, and I do so in calibre. To get the Kindle to do it (as close as possible), I use a plugboard to replace the comma and space with an underscore. Then the Kindle doesn't turn the name around; it will be "Dickens_Charles", sorted on Dickens.
The plugboard (which also puts the series after the author's name, instead of in front of the title):
Code:
{author_sort:re(\, ,_)} {series:|(|} {series_index:0>2s||)}