[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Syana344

Hi boths,

I tried out both methods... but without success. Most probably I'm doing something wrong.

Jackie: I perfectly understand (from a rationale point of view) what you mean, but I'm unable to adapt the export parameters to fit.
I appologize in advance for the wording - as I use calibre in french, the names of the icons may not be 100% exact.

Basically, I go to Calibres preferences, select "sent to device" (third icon from the left). In the middle of the pop up, I have a field where it's written in "{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}". At the bottom, I have a list of fields, and if I understand right the explanation given, this field is meant to set up a model. I tried to change it to {authors}/{title} - {authors} but it does not change anything.
If I go to the device configuration itself, I see the same, but I don't know how to change the model to switch from "author_sort" to "authors".

Completely the wrong place to look. This is how to set the file name of the book on the device. You never see this when you are using the device. And what you set it to doesn't really matter as long as it is unique and a legal file name. The device does use it in the internal database, but doesn't display it.

Davidfor: I tried also to change the metadata table into the preferences. Basically, I have already one setting for "any format:any device = ([{series}{series_index:0>2s| | – }{title}] -> title)" Now, I changed it to: any format:any device = ([{series}{series_index:0>2s| | – }{title}] -> title), ([program: raw_list('authors', ', ')] -> authors). But... My poor Will Adams is still split into Will and Adams.

I think that look right. You did press the "Save plugboard" button before closing the preferences? I'm always forgetting to do that and lose the change.

This also only affects new books sent to the device. When a new book is sent, the device imports it, reads the metadata and populates the internal database. That is then displayed when using it. Unless you change an option, when you resend a book from calibre, it replaces the book on the device and the metadata isn't reread. There is an option in the KoboTouch driver to revert to the default method that Kobo uses. This treats all replacements as a new book and removes the book from the database before importing it as a new book.

Alternatively, for books already on the device, you can use my Kobo Utilities plugin to update the metadata in the database. This has an option to use the plugboard to set the author and title.

Most probably I miss something, but I don't know what... I would like avoid to change my full Calibre library to First N / Last N...

This makes me wonder how you have the author names in your calibre library. Do you use "FN LN" in the author and "LN, FN" in the sort author? If you have a different combination, you will probably need to change the metadata plugboard.