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I've managed to get books filed away in Calibre the way I want. If I click on author sort Calibre sorts in the appropriate direction. The lists look very good and the way I want.

However, when I send books to a device, the device simply does not see the author name at all. I've tried just pasting books into the sd card directly with the same result.
I went back and corrected all the books I had just dragged into the Calibre library folder using Calibre itself, and the books STILL don't appear right. I own both an inkBOOK and an Onyx Darwin. Neither device will see the authors. It's like neither device recognizes any column but the first. The inkBOOK will see some of the authors, older books that I've had for quite a while. Newer books from the last 2 years - no go.

I went back and corrected the names of the books I downloaded. Some had just numbers so I typed in the Title and Author using a hyphen in between in the original download file. I fixed those hyphens in Calibre.