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Old 07-13-2021, 11:24 PM   #3
OonaMistwalker
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
As I wrote in your other threadIn my opinion the best results are obtained by using calibre's Author Sort field as the author for Kindle books.
I really appreciate your time in responding to me twice on the same issue, jhowell. Thank you. In the thread you linked you said
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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".
Does the Kindle sort by first name if there is no comma in the author name field?

I respect your opinion, jhowell, but I don't understand it well enough to know if I agree. Would you mind helping me understand why calibre's Author Sort field is best?

I don't care if author names display with forename or surname first. What I really want is for them to sort by surname, not forename.
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