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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Here is what I have from a KF8 eBook from Amazon... "Mariotte, Jeff". It's that way in Author(s) and that way in Author sort. In Author(s) another book I have is "Jeff Mariotte" and Author sort is "Mariotte, Jeff".
Would these come out as the same author? I would hope so.
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You can answer this for yourself. For each book, with your mouse click the Path shown on the right side of Calibre's main screen within the Book Details. Note the name of the author embedded within the Path to the ebook. If the two books have the identical author from the perspective of Calibre, then they will share the same Path down to the author embedded within the Path. If not, they will be different.
I would bet that these are analogous to the patterns to your Paths:
"C:\Users\Public\Public eBooks\Calibre\Mariotte, Jeff\ABookName1(99999)\ABookName1 - Mariotte, Jeff.epub"
"C:\Users\Public\Public eBooks\Calibre\Jeff Mariotte\ABookName2(99999)\ABookName2 - Jeff Mariotte.epub"
If your 2 books are not within the same author-name subdirectory, then as far as Calibre is concerned, they do not have the same author. Calibre rules. ABC certainly uses who Calibre says is the author of each book based on the author id linked to each book in the books_authors_link table in the metadata.db database. 2 ids means 2 different authors. Period.
Jeff Mariotte is also known as Jeffrey J. Mariotte. If you own his book River Run Red, check that book too. It will have yet a third different author as far as Calibre is concerned.
This is the Plugin forum, not the Library Management forum, so I suggest that you get help in standardizing your author names from Library Management. Kiwidude's Quality Check plugin will gladly fix your author names having commas for you, resulting in Jeff Mariotte and Mariotte, Jeff being merged into a single Calibre author, Jeff Mariotte. If you want Jeff Mariotte merged with Jeffrey J. Mariotte, you will have to manually edit your author metadata. I suggest using Calibre > Alter Tag Browser > Manage Authors, Tags, etc. > Manage Authors. This tool could also be used to change Mariotte, Jeff into Jeff Mariotte, since Calibre places each unique author name on its own line within the Manage Authors tool. That would also be a way to prove that Calibre views the latter author names as different authors.
After changing the author names, recheck the Paths to their books. They should be in the same parent author name directory/folder, such as "C:\Users\Public\Public eBooks\Calibre\Jeff Mariotte\..........................". The books would have the identical author id at that point.