Thread: Clara HD Authors, collections
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Old 11-24-2019, 06:52 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Butterfly1234 View Post
Hello!

I have more or less the same problem.
On my PC, all my books (hopefully no mistakes anywhere) are sorted like this: Fitzek Sebastian - The bone collector.epub.
I have put a whole series of Fitzek books on my Clara. Alas, on my Clara I have now more than one Fitzek. In my pc there are no comma's between last and first name, in the Clara there are.

I tried to resolve this through Calibre to make them all the same, but I failed miserably.

In Clara, even when putting the authors by family name, you always get the first name first. Very annoying!!
Firstly, the file name doesn't matter. For an epub, the firmware reads the title, author and other details from the metadata inside the book. The file name is only used for file types that contain no internal metadata. And then the name is used for the book title, and the author set to "Unknown".

All the display and sorting on the device is based on this metadata. The file names are not considered once the book has been imported.

How are you putting the books on the device? You mention using calibre to "resolve" the authors, but, I suspect you are not actually using calibre to send the books to the device, or updating the files with the updated metadata. When you add a book to calibre, it gets the metadata from the book (either the internal or the file name depending on format and some options). After that, the changes you make to the metadata happen in the calibre database. The actual files are not updated. They are updated when certain actions are taken. To update the books in the library, you need to either use the Embed metadata tool, do a conversion or use the editor. Calibre will update the books when you export them from the library using either the "Save to disk" or "Send to device". The latter is the best way to get the books onto a supported device such as any of the Kobo devices.

If you are adding the books to calibre, fixing the metadata and then copying the books from the calibre library directories to the device, then you are not updating the books with the metadata needed. If you are doing something else, it probably means you are missing a step in the process and the book isn't being updated.

Lastly, if you are entering the author as "LN, FN" rather than "FN LN", don't. Calibre has methods to handle sorting the author properly. Kobo devices do as well. But, they expect to see the author as "FN LN" or "FN1 LN1, FN2 LN2".
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