Thread: Sorting of books by author with "(ed.)" in the name
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Old 06-25-2020, 08:08 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by John F View Post
My understanding is that the Kobo readers do not have an "author sort" field.
That is correct. For sideloaded books, the device takes the text from the first dc:contributor tag in the OPF of the book. It uses this without change.

@JJ Johnson:
For sorting, the name is in interpreted as "FN LN". For names with more than two words, there is no attempt to assign meaning to the parts of the name. It is just treated as "FN1 FN2 FN3 ... LN". So, "James Tiptree Jr." will be sorted as "Jr. James Tiptree". And "Isaac Asimov (ed.)" will be "(ed.), Isaac Asimov".

And remember, Kobo interprets the comma as the separator between multiple authors. If you use "LN, FN", Kobo will interpret that as two authors, "LN" and "FN". The book lists will sort on "LN" but the author tab will show two authors.

And there has been a lot of discussion on this over the years. There have been several suggestions on how to handle things.
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