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Originally Posted by chrisridd
eg:
book1 by "Ernest Hemingway" author sort "Hemingway, Ernest"
book2 by "Ernest Hemingway" author sort "Hemingway, E"
book3 by "Ernest Hemingway" author sort "Heminway, Ernest"
book4 by "Ernest Hemingway" no author sort
If Marvin saw these 4 books by the same author which of the "author sort" values would it use?
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All of them – just as I said. Only book 1 in your example has the correct "Hemingway, Ernest" value. The other 3 are errors, and so, Marvin would list 4 various writers in the authors list – the Marvin user would likely spot that anomaly in the Library immediately, and in this way, the Library would alert the Marvin user that the "author sort" meta-tags for books 2, 3, 4 need to be fixed (which is very easy to do in Marvin), so that all 4 books have the identical and correct "author sort" meta-tag "Hemingway, Ernest". Then – and only then – should Marvin recognize the 4 books as belonging to the same author.
That is
exactly how Calibre treats authors sorting, and it's the only correct and sensible way. Any other approach creates inconsistency and chaos, such as can be observed in Marvin 3 right now.
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Originally Posted by Grendel_
My first post here. [...]
after reading through this whole thread @faterson just don't admit when hes wrong! hes like my four year old lol
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First, congratulations on you're speling and grammer. Second, congratulations on your first MobileRead post. What an impressive entry! You introduce yourself by personally attacking a forum member who's been here for 5 years and made over 1,200 posts, and who's been Beta-testing Marvin since Version 1. What a warm and fuzzy feeling it must have been to slam that person, right? Third and final, commiserations to the four-year-old.
Oh, and I'll be extremely happy to admit whenever I'm "wrong". But first, you'd have to show me
where I'm wrong, right? But that might hurt the brain-cells, to be arguing based on
facts. It's so much more convenient just to hurl personal insults, so why not stick to those, eh?
