Thread: Kobo Utilities Plugin Question
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Old 09-25-2018, 07:52 PM   #10
davidfor
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Originally Posted by nikev View Post
Just to be clear: Calibre seems to distinguish between author name and author sort explicitly. What I am understanding from your post above is that Kobo internally uses the author name alone, and calculated the sort field from that. Am I correct in this? And if I check the "use author sort" option in the plugin, it pushes that over to the Kobo rather than the author name?
That is correct. Overall:
  • Calibre uses one dc:contributor tag for each author.
  • Calibre puts the author sort in the "file-as" attribute in which of the first dc:contributor tag.
  • The device reads the author from the first dc:contributor tag in the metadata and stores it in the database.
  • The device only uses the value of this tag and ignores the other attributes.
  • It calculates the sorting from this author and assumes it is "FN LN" or "FN1 LN1, FN2 LN2".
  • If the author is "LN, FN" this will be treated as two authors "LN" and "FN". Books will sort by author correctly, but, the author list will show both authors.
  • The metadata update in the Kobo Utilities plugin directly updates the database. Depending on the option chosen, whatever is in the author, author sort or calculated by the metadata plugboard is used.

Because of this, I recommend using the metadata plugboard I posted earlier in the thread. It seems to give the best results on the device.
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