[chaley]

Originally Posted by davidfor

This has been extensively discussed here and in the Kobo forum. The general recommendations are:

• Use "FN LN" for the authors in calibre.
• If you want to display "LN, FN", use the author sort for this
• For archiving the books elsewhere, use the author sort.
• For Kobo devices, use a metadata plugboard to set the author in a way the device will understand. Assuming you have done the first item above, the following template does this:
  

  program: raw_list('authors', ', ')

You can keep "LN, FN & LN, FN" in calibre and convert it to "FN LN,FN LN" for Kobo using this template in the plugboard.

program:
	re(list_re_group(field('authors'), '&', '.', '(.*)', "program: swap_around_comma($)"), '&', ', ')