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jhowell · 07-12-2021, 08:14 PM

Kindle books have an author field and sort by the contents of that, but don't always display it the way that it is stored. If the author field has a comma it sorts normally but displays reversed. So "Smith, Adam" sorts by "S" and displays as "Adam Smith". The best results are usually obtained by setting a Kindle book's author field from calibre's author sort field.

07-12-2021, 08:14 PM	#3
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,078 Karma: 91577715 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	Kindle books have an author field and sort by the contents of that, but don't always display it the way that it is stored. If the author field has a comma it sorts normally but displays reversed. So "Smith, Adam" sorts by "S" and displays as "Adam Smith". The best results are usually obtained by setting a Kindle book's author field from calibre's author sort field.