Thread: Forma Authors list in My Books
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Old 05-11-2019, 03:17 PM   #27
John F
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
Well on my kobo the authors on the my books tab are sorted by last name. The names that are displayed are fn ln. So internally they're using ln, fn. But in order for that to work properly you have to have your authors in calibre set up so that it's fn ln, and calibre has another column, author_sort, where it uses the same heuristic as the kobo and they're stored as ln, fn in it.
I don't believe that Kobo is using "Author Sort". I believe that Kobo's heuristic for sorting works for most cases.

I just tried using an "Author" of 'Jake' and "Author Sort" of 'Kellerman, Jonathan' in Calibre. When I convert and transfer the book to Kobo and sort by Author, it displays 'Jake" as the author but it is sorted under the Js; If Kobo was using the "Author Sort", it should show up under the Ks.
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