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OonaMistwalker · 07-12-2021, 07:13 PM

Hi there! I have 2 nearly identical issues. All my books come from either the Kindle store or Project Gutenberg, so there shouldn't be any DRM problems.

ISSUE ONE: Some of the books I get from Amazon sort the author alphabetically by first name and some by last name (I just assume that Amazon doesn't check that it's employees know how to alphabetize correctly). Is there any way I can fix this without jailbreaking the Kindle? If I do jailbreak, what Amazon functionality will I lose? I assume Amazon has created some sort of penalty for that...

ISSUE TWO: To prevent this happening with the books from Gutenberg, I put them into my Calibre library and check the metadata for each one before I sideload them to my Kindle 2. Some still don't sort properly. A. A. Milne sorts at the top, even though Calibre places him the correct place in its list. What gives, here? I would be grateful for advice.

07-12-2021, 07:13 PM	#1
OonaMistwalker Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2021 Device: Kindle 2	Kindle 2: Authors not sorted alphabetically Hi there! I have 2 nearly identical issues. All my books come from either the Kindle store or Project Gutenberg, so there shouldn't be any DRM problems. ISSUE ONE: Some of the books I get from Amazon sort the author alphabetically by first name and some by last name (I just assume that Amazon doesn't check that it's employees know how to alphabetize correctly). Is there any way I can fix this without jailbreaking the Kindle? If I do jailbreak, what Amazon functionality will I lose? I assume Amazon has created some sort of penalty for that... ISSUE TWO: To prevent this happening with the books from Gutenberg, I put them into my Calibre library and check the metadata for each one before I sideload them to my Kindle 2. Some still don't sort properly. A. A. Milne sorts at the top, even though Calibre places him the correct place in its list. What gives, here? I would be grateful for advice.