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Old 11-19-2014, 11:24 PM   #84
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by PRS-T2 View Post
Can't right now (hyphenating the whole library on an old, slow AMD Athlon), but will use the same I had for my Sony. Yours is interesting though. With the title before the series, how do you sort by series, series_index?
I don't, actually. I usually sort by Recent anyway -- the series is just there so I can read the title and figure out the order.

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Do you know a quick way to recreate proper authors in calibre from author_sort? Mine are "lastname, firstname" for both fields and it seems that the Kindle doesn't like it: all books are ordered by author, firstname but displayed as "firstname lastname"...

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@eschwartz: hehe funny threadhopping. Let's stick while collections in the calibre forum, should we? Sorry for double posting!


As I said there, not sure why it would sort by firstname.

Hmm, Quality Check PI has an option to find authors with commas, but not to set author from author_sort??? Dang.

And Bulk Edit Metadata doesn't have a setting for it either. You will have to do a Bulk Edit S&R (in Regular Expressions mode).

Find author_sort:
Code:
([^,]*), ([^,]*)
Replace authors:
Code:
\2 \1
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