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Xenophon · 02-11-2009, 10:41 AM

Part of the issue is that the LRF format has a second author field (named "reading as" I believe) that is intended to represent the authors name for sorting purposes. But none of Sony's readers pay any attention to the field!!!

So what's happening is that Calibre does its best to use the existing Author data to fill in a reasonable guess at the Author Sort field. But that guess is often wrong because author names are really complicated (check out the ALA's guidelines on this sometime -- it's really scary)! Then go file a BUG with Sony for ignoring part of their own format's meta-data.

Xenophon

02-11-2009, 10:41 AM	#13
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,487 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	Part of the issue is that the LRF format has a second author field (named "reading as" I believe) that is intended to represent the authors name for sorting purposes. But none of Sony's readers pay any attention to the field!!! So what's happening is that Calibre does its best to use the existing Author data to fill in a reasonable guess at the Author Sort field. But that guess is often wrong because author names are really complicated (check out the ALA's guidelines on this sometime -- it's really scary)! Then go file a BUG with Sony for ignoring part of their own format's meta-data. Xenophon