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Old 04-21-2023, 04:52 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by MSWallack View Post
I'm not sure if this helps, but when I've encountered that problem, I add either: (a) the author's birth year; or (b) just a number, in brackets after the author sort name (but not the author name). So it might be "Bloggs, Joe [1974]" and "Bloggs, Joe [1981]" or "Bloggs, Joe [1]" and "Bloggs, Joe [2]". Not perfect, but it seems to work.
This (with numbers) is what I've been doing, though I've been adding it to the author name. How are you adding it to the author sort name only though? When I change it for one book, it changes the author sort for all of them. I tried creating a new author with a slightly-changed name, and editing the author-sort-name for that one, but as soon as I have "Joe Bloggs" and "Joe Bloggs", they seem to join together again.

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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
Different genres? Joe Scifi Blogs and Joe Fiction Blogs.
Hm, that might be a slightly better solution in that it might help me remember which one's which.
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