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Thanks. I'm happy to run in debug mode, if you can tell me exactly what tests you would like me to do.
In case it's helpful, here are some examples of what's happening. My impression is that Kobo is doing something odd in the way it uses metadata to sort lists.
For instance, if I go to My Books, select the Author's tab, and sort by Last Name, the first entry I see is Bruno A.
This is wrong; the author's name is Bruno A. Cayoun. When I select the book, his name is displayed as Cayoun, Bruno A. This book is an Kepub purchased from Kobo.
Similarly, I get a bunch of books by an author whose last name is shown in the list as "Ann." This is again wrong; that's the author's first name, and clicking on the name displays the author's name as Cleeves, Ann.
In Calibre the author's name is Ann Cleeves, and the author sort key is Cleeves, Ann. Trying to manually update the metadata doesn't do anything.
The plugin report is this:
calibre, version 3.31.0
Kobo Utilities - Device library updated: Update summary:
Books updated=0
Unchanged books=4
Books not on device=0
Total books=4
I had the same thing happen with Gutenberg books by Jane Austen. I fixed those in Calibre, deleted the books from the reader, and reloaded them. That solved the problem, but it's a pain to do for everything.
However (and this may be a hint as to where the problem lies) the My Books > Author > Last name yields "Jane Austen" and clicking on the books gives the author's name as "Jane Austen." This is different from the problem behaviour, where the author's name is simply listed in the sorted list as (say) Ann and the shown upon clicking the book is "Cleeves, Ann"
Any ideas for a simple fix to this would be welcome.
Nike
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