Quote:
Originally Posted by itimpi
Internally calibre seems to hold authors in 'firstname lastname' format, with the sort field normally being set to 'lastname, firstname'. You may find it esier to simply live with this convention.
|
Thanks for the prompt reply, even though it's not the one I wanted
It's not irksome enough for me to stop using calibre, but it's a bit odd, nonetheless.
I think what you're saying (sorry if I'm misunderstanding this) is that when Calibre reads an author like this `Bloggs, Fred' it interprets it as two different authors -- one called (something) Bloggs and one called (something) Fred?
The problem is that that if I wanted to say that the book was by two different author, I would write the authors as `Bloggs and Scuggins' or whatever. I'm not sure why the software needs to make assumptions that the person who formatted the file meant something different from what he or she said. To complicate matters, the books I've downloaded from this site have so far all had the author in the form `Bloggs, Fred'.
And (so far as I can tell) the PRS-505 does not honour the `author sort' field that Calibre uses. I don't know if that's a Calibre issue or a PRS-505 one. But the PRS order authors by the displayed name field. Since I have books by Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Charles Grant, and Charles Williams, ordering by display name isn't terribly useful.
I can live with my PRS-505 displaying an authors as `Darwin|Charles' if the alternative is to be forced to put all the Charleses together in a bunch. But it would be nice if there was a way around this.