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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Well, at the time it was partly software as well (tap zones).
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The author display and presentation on the kobo is what wins it for me. When you select author display it shows the authors' name and how many books you have by them, and then you can sort by last name, first name, recent, and number of books. When you tap on the author's name it opens a page and shows you their books. Within that list of books by an author you can sort by recent, date added, title, author,
series, file size, and file type. And the authors are sorted by last name even though their name in the metadata has first name first, and they are displayed with first name first.
When you select books display, within that you can sort by recent, date added, title, author, series, file size, and file type. This is similar to the long list you get on the kindle.
And then I went through this whole anguish because before I had bought the kobo I had gone through all of my books and changed the author names to be in LastName, FirstName format and I thought I was doing that because it was how things should be done. When I got my kobo it wants the names in FirstName LastName format so I went through them all and did that. Then I decided to re-upload all of them to the kindle as well so that the metadata would be consistent on both devices and then discovered that the kindle sorts by whatever's at the beginning, i.e., the first name. Good grief, how stupid is that. And that must be why I did the LastName, FirstName change but I forgot about the kindle being brain dead. But the kindle's presentation of the books and authors is so crappy and nearly useless that I'm not losing any sleep over it. When you have a lot of books, with the kindle generating catalogs with calibre's Create Catalog is what makes it bearable.