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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
Ha ha. The reason is that SW has so many bugs and/or released versions are annoying is that EVERYTHING is pretty significant.
I'd give NOTHING to going to the public to someone on work experience.
There isn't anything simple about sorting anyway and lots of traps for inexperienced. Don't forget it has to work for non-Roman alphabets, surnames names with spaces, accents. There are libraries. That's the HARDEST bit for new programmers, or experienced ones to a new language. What does the library REALLY do?
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That is the whole purpose of the having a separate author_sort field. So that most of the problems you mention are eliminated.
Why dramatize the problem with non-relevant problems?
If Kobo (or their hired contractors) doesn't have a good simple sort algorithm by now, ...