Thread: Author sort on Kobo Aura One?
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Old 10-21-2017, 09:21 PM   #4
davidfor
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Originally Posted by PapaJohn View Post
So are you saying it's not possible to sort by first name in book view?
Not really. The sort in the book list parses the author information based on rules built into the code and sorts on that. There are several long discussions on sorting in the Kobo forum. From memory, someone did post a plugboard to achieved this by replacing the spaces with another character. I can't remember if they used an underscore or some other character like a non-breaking space.
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Not sure what your plugboard does....definitely above my pay grade.
Sorry, I pasted an old version of the plugboard. The version above uses "and" as the connector between multiple authors. It would produced "FN1 LN1 and FN2 LN2". This doesn't work with the author list on the Kobo. This would be treated as a single author, rather than two.

The plugboard I am currently using is:
Code:
program: raw_list('authors', ', ')
This puts a comma between each author name. That works in all places on the device.
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