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Originally Posted by starrigger
This seems to be an area in which there is no standard in ebooks, though "last name, first name" has long been the standard in regular books and libraries.
From a programming point of view, would it be difficult to allow the user a choice of which they want as a default display of author name? That would let people standardize their own collections, anyway.
What if the metadata edit window had three fields (at least): First name, last name, and optional title (such as Editor). Then the user could click on a choice of preferred display order.
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In the case of the Kindle, the standard is that the data in the author metadata field is Last, First. As long as the program can recognize that it is connected to a Kindle, then it seems reasonable that Calibre should process the data that way.
Standard in this case is defined by the way books are formatted when purchased from Amazon and other sources and display correctly on the Kindle. Clearly the intent is for the data to be in this form because that is the only way it can be sorted properly on the Kindle. I have no information on the way other devices may use this information, or if they use it at all.
BTW, Jeffrey, I've read a number of your books over the years and enjoyed them all.