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Shackleton · 02-22-2019, 12:47 PM

Hi - I was wondering if someone could help me out. I've searched for an answer to this and nothing people have suggested in past threads seems to be working! (I assume this is the right subforum as it seems like the answer will be on the Calibre side of things, but if this would be better in the Kindle forum then feel free to move it.)

I'm having an issue with the way my library is sorted on the Kindle - I've edited the entire library's metadata through Calibre, and moved it onto my Kindle 4 device through Calibre as well. But on the Kindle, sometimes the authors are sorted by first name and sometimes by surname.

The 'author sort' metadata on Calibre is ALL in a 'ln, fn' format and the library displays perfectly on my PC through Calibre. But on the Kindle, about 30% of books seem to sort it by the author's first name still.

I've looked at common factors between affected books and it's really inconsistent - some books are Mobi and some are AZW3, but both file types have some authors sorted by first name and some sorted by last name.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=64545
I found this (quite old) thread that seems to be the exact same problem, but the solutions here don't work - nothing's changed when I've reconverted (including ticking the 'choose author sort as author' box) between Mobi and AZW3 a few times with a test book that's sorting by author firstname despite everything being setup for it to sort by surname.

So any advice would be hugely appreciated! I'm completely stumped. Do let me know if you need any more information.

02-22-2019, 12:47 PM	#1
Shackleton Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2019 Device: Kindle 4	Author Sort by Surname/Firstname Inconsistent on Kindle 4 Hi - I was wondering if someone could help me out. I've searched for an answer to this and nothing people have suggested in past threads seems to be working! (I assume this is the right subforum as it seems like the answer will be on the Calibre side of things, but if this would be better in the Kindle forum then feel free to move it.) I'm having an issue with the way my library is sorted on the Kindle - I've edited the entire library's metadata through Calibre, and moved it onto my Kindle 4 device through Calibre as well. But on the Kindle, sometimes the authors are sorted by first name and sometimes by surname. The 'author sort' metadata on Calibre is ALL in a 'ln, fn' format and the library displays perfectly on my PC through Calibre. But on the Kindle, about 30% of books seem to sort it by the author's first name still. I've looked at common factors between affected books and it's really inconsistent - some books are Mobi and some are AZW3, but both file types have some authors sorted by first name and some sorted by last name. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=64545 I found this (quite old) thread that seems to be the exact same problem, but the solutions here don't work - nothing's changed when I've reconverted (including ticking the 'choose author sort as author' box) between Mobi and AZW3 a few times with a test book that's sorting by author firstname despite everything being setup for it to sort by surname. So any advice would be hugely appreciated! I'm completely stumped. Do let me know if you need any more information.