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Originally Posted by Xenophon
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!!!
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Yeah, I guessed as much. That's really slack
And I guess it would make no sense to cripple Calibre so that it doesn't work properly with readers that
do do the right thing, just because the PRS doesn't.
And, in fact, now I've used the isbndb database it bit more, I can see that there's little consistency in how author names are represented there either. I guess I can't expect any software to cope that.
Since the PRS/Calibre combination essentially requires that the author and author-sort fields are the same, if both are to work properly, I suppose what would help me when importing large numbers of books is a way to set this for the entire collection.
Is there some programmatic way to do that? I suppose at a pinch I could use the sqlite prompt, but I don't understand the data schema and I don't want to break it.