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Old 01-24-2020, 02:15 AM   #11
Patrick Derwael
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
What metadata sources are you using that set the author name as "last_name, first_name". None of the ones I use do. They set the author as "first_name last_name". The author sort is set to "last_name, first_name", but that is separate.
Actually, I have inherited of a massive library (>20K ebooks) which I have imported in Calibre and I'm now in the (lenghty) process of cleaning them up

I have no idea about the original metadata source
In the existing metadata, the description is very often better (than in what I find in download), but the author is structured as "last_name, first_name"

This means that if, after a single book metadata download, I don't want to keep the information just downloaded and revert back to the original metadata, the "last_name, first_name" is back and if I do not notice it...
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