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Originally Posted by jhowell
There is no such thing as an "author sort" field in Kindle e-book formats, only an "author" field. Sorting by author always sorts by whatever is in the "author" field.
There is a special case in those devices that if the author field contains a comma it is assumed to be in "last, first" format and the parts on either side of the comma are reversed when displayed to the user.
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I want to make sure I understand... You're saying a Kindle won't recognize the information entered into the "Author sort" field... Rather, it relies on the "Author(s)" field for both knowing what info to display and knowing how to sort the ebook? Is that right?
If so, that makes sense.
With that being the case, is it normal that if I enter "First-Name Last-Name" in the "Author(s)" field that my Kindle sorts by first name?
What I've been doing since 2014 is entering "Last-Name, First-Name" in the "Author(s)" field to make sure my Kindle will sort it by last name instead. I assumed what I was doing was unusual... but if what you say is true, then my method might actually make sense...?