[markcumbria]

Hi everyone.

Author sort is driving me mad and I’d appreciate any simple advice.

I have a mix of books, some purchased from Amazon loaded directly to my Paperwhite (new 2015 version), and some loaded via Calibre. On my old kindle (standard) the Amazon books sorted correctly (last name, first name) but the books loaded from Calibre were in the reverse order (first name, last name).

I have resolved to try to sort this before I upload all of my books to the new Paperwhite!

So, I now have my Amazon books installed, in the correct order – last name, first name. However books loaded from Calibre usually appear at the end of this list - it looks like they are in the order in which they were loaded.
Having said that the occasional book appears in first name, last name order! It’s very frustrating!

By reading these forums, I’ve learned about the `Use author sort for author` option in the conversion and have re-converted with this option checked. When I open the books using the viewer in Calibre and view the metadata the Author Sort field is correct (eg Smith, John) but this doesn't seem to have made any difference when viewing the list of books on the device.

Any ideas? I’d even edit a metadata field manually if I knew where to look!

Thanks in advance,
Mark