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Originally Posted by itimpi
Calibre does not sort on the author name field, but on the Author sort field.
The Calibre default algorithm for Author sort is to make it lastname, firstname based on the Author name field being in the order firstname lastname.
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I think I didn’t explain my problem well enough.
I have a .mobi/.prc format book on my Kindle. The Kindle shows the author name as "Isaac Asimov." The Kindle will sort correctly by the author's last name. The information in the ebook metadata is "Asimov, Isaac" as seen in a hex editor.
I import this into Calibre. The Calibre author name field says "Asimov, Isaac" and the author sort field says "Isaac, Asimov,". Clearly, this is not desirable.
If I then send the file back to the Kindle, It of course will be fine and sort correctly. If I export to a .mobi file, it will also be fine on the target device.
But the info in the author fields of Calibre is incorrect, and won’t do an author sort properly. It will sort using Isaac instead of Asimov.