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Originally Posted by igorius
So please would anyone explain please in clear and understandable words why its done the strange way?
Therefore we can also say that the help doesnt help in any way! That whole thing needs to be cleared for future audience.
Therefore i need a third column which has Authors stored the way LN, FN!
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This strange behavior is due to the fact that some people sort authors differently from the way they are displayed.
The common case is that the book has as author "Isaac Asimov", but will be sorted in the bookstore/library shelves to "A" since it is based on the name of the author, not his first name.
The value "author_sort" allows this flexibility to display "Isaac Asimov" but to sort it into "Asimov, Isaac".
All this is confusing, I grant you, but it's because you are facing the default behavior of Calibre which may not be the one you find natural and obvious.
But this is also a strength of Calibre: As we have explained, there are many options to get the result YOU want.
You want the sort column to work with the values of the "Authors" column? Do as I say.
From what I've read of the FAQ, it describes pretty well, but it's not wrong.
Maybe this section needs some clarification, as the functionality is very complex and subtle. Shit, maybe just create a dedicated page to have room to add more examples of desired cases would help.
But as you have experienced, if anything is too complex and overhauled in the Manual, there is the forum.
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Originally Posted by igorius
Therefore i need a third column which has Authors stored the way LN, FN!
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Yep, but there are tricks to help you generate or fill it.
Also, for some reason, you have a column "Authors Sort", problem, it is not a Calibre column. So I can understand that this presence has misled you, but this column is only visual and informative, you can't change it. You probably added it, or someone else. It shows you how Calibre really works.