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Old 07-19-2019, 06:36 PM   #14
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You can correct the default author_sort value by changing "Arkadi & Strugatki, Boris" to "Strugatki, Boris and Arkadi" in Manage Authors. I'm not sure if "B... & A..." would work, try it for yourself.
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Thank you but having to manually do this I feel somehow it defeats the reason Calibre was created in the first place.
AFAIK : The ability to override author_sort in Manage Authors is provided for the express purpose of dealing with corner cases such as yours, un-hyphenated double barrelled surnames, East Asian names etc etc.

BR

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