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davidfor · 01-19-2015, 06:12 AM

If calibre is not sorting the authors by last name, then you have done something to change that behaviour.

By default, calibre stores and displays authors as "FN LN". But, it also stores a "author sort". By default, this is "LN, FN". With this, when you sort the list by author, even though it displays "Agatha Christie" and "Adam Johnson". It will be sorted as "Christie, Agatha" and "Johnson, Adam". This is what I see in my calibre library.

There are some ways to change this. There are tweaks so that the author sort will be displayed and created. Plus, you can enter the author sort yourself for any particular author. By the sounds of it, you have done one of these. The tweaks are changeable in the preferences. For the author sort, these are displayed when editing the metadata of a book or using the "Manage Authors" dialog (right click on the "Authors" in the tab browser). I suggest you look at these and see if you can work out which you have done so you can fix it. Or ask questions on how to fix this. Until we know where things have gone wrong, any suggestions we make, beyond reading the FAQ and manual, are just guesses.

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davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	If calibre is not sorting the authors by last name, then you have done something to change that behaviour. By default, calibre stores and displays authors as "FN LN". But, it also stores a "author sort". By default, this is "LN, FN". With this, when you sort the list by author, even though it displays "Agatha Christie" and "Adam Johnson". It will be sorted as "Christie, Agatha" and "Johnson, Adam". This is what I see in my calibre library. There are some ways to change this. There are tweaks so that the author sort will be displayed and created. Plus, you can enter the author sort yourself for any particular author. By the sounds of it, you have done one of these. The tweaks are changeable in the preferences. For the author sort, these are displayed when editing the metadata of a book or using the "Manage Authors" dialog (right click on the "Authors" in the tab browser). I suggest you look at these and see if you can work out which you have done so you can fix it. Or ask questions on how to fix this. Until we know where things have gone wrong, any suggestions we make, beyond reading the FAQ and manual, are just guesses.