Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 07-14-2020, 10:42 AM   #1817
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Originally Posted by Loceka View Post
Hello,

When filling in the authors to the Kobo, the plugin should change the Calibre list separator (&) to the Kobo list separator (,).

I have noticed that it messed up with the Kobo author sorting method. The Kobo seems to expect the author(s) to be "FirstName1 LastName1, FirstName2 LastName2" and then performs the sort on "LastName1 LastName2".

If the authors are input with the Calibre separator (&): "FirstName1 LastName1 & FirstName2 LastName2", the sort is performed on "LastName2".
You can do this with a metadata plugboard. I recommend setting the author using:

Code:
program: raw_list('authors', ', ')
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Also, I wondered if there was a way to tell the Kobo not to heed the second author when sorting, for a specified book: I have like 30 books belonging to the same serie but with different authors and it would be nice if I could ignore the second author just for them, so that they would appear in the right order. I haven't found anything in the DB that would look like it but who knows...
There isn't a way to do this.
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