Thread: Forma Authors list in My Books
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Old 05-11-2019, 02:30 PM   #24
John F
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
John F, I'm confused about what you're proposing. Isn't the kobo already using an author sort with LN, FN as well as displaying the authors' names as FN LN on the My books authors tab? Or are you proposing that they allow us to select how the author names are displayed?
I'm not sure. I was assuming they didn't have separate fields.

I think they are using a single field for display and sorting (I am referring to Books under My Books.). And David's stance seems to indicate a single field.

Or I may be mixing this up with another hardware vendor. I like how Calibre has Author and and Author sort and wish Kobo (and others), had similar behavior.

At some point in the past for some reason, I made Author and Author sort the same in Calibre (LN, FN); I've gone through multiple hardware manfactures and many firmwares, so my memory is foggy.

Rethinking it, I can live with the Kobo's current behavior and should probably look into more of Calibre's features for manipulating data when sending books.
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