[HarryT]

How does the Kobo distinguish first names and last names? On the Kindle, for example, I have the "author" metadata for all my books set as "last name, first name", which the Kindle then rearranges as "first name last name". So Walter M. Miller Jr is stored as "Miller Jr, Walter M." but displayed as "Walter M. Miller Jr", and the Kindle knows that the surname is "Miller Jr" and sorts accordingly. Does the Kobo just take the last element of the name as the surname? That's not very smart!

Presumably the same issue would arise with two-part surnames that are not hyphenated? Eg, Alexander McCall Smith's surname is "McCall Smith", and should be sorted under "M", not "S".