Thread: Author a z sort bug
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Old 04-28-2017, 04:50 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Author_Sort is used to SORT

Author_Sort is in the Metadata of the book , whichever CC method you transfer with
OK well that is consistent with what I see. IF, when I go to edit metadata and correct my author sorts, calibre actually edits the metadata IN THE BOOK ? which windows says NO to. I fixed author sort yesterday via edit metadata in calibre but windows says the epub was last modified on the 25th
example 1 the noah...book

in the opf is <dc:creator opf:role="aut" opf:file-as="Noah Harari, Yuval">Yuval Noah Harari</dc:creator>
in calibre author sort is Harari, Yuval Noah. so calibre has not updated what is in the epub yet.

example 2: Peter

<dc:creator opf:role="aut" opf:file-as="Peter Helton">Peter Helton</dc:creator>
but author sort is Helton, Peter

in opf metadata, I see no explicit author sort entries

NB to " preserve the evidence" I have corrected my calibre records but I have not re-sent anything to CC, or reconverted or polished any books., All I have used in calibre is edit metadata screen to find and fix the wrong author sort fields

back to the screenshot:

author groupings must be using some other method to identify last name - probably literally that - grouping is using the text that is after the final space within the name ?

Nitpicking now, the a-z sort options offered by CC are to sort by author,or title , or series ... there is not an offer to sort by author-sort.

the "bug" as I see it is that the screen as per my 2nd screenshot appears to contradict itself.
Last edited by stumped; 04-28-2017 at 05:04 AM.
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