[Catfishers]

Howdy y'all,

I've noticed since the update which changed the way the kindle displays author names (from lastname, firstname by default to firstname lastname) the data I had previously customised via plugboard is now displaying out of order.

I have much preferred to add series and series index data into the author field, as I feel like it looks more neat. Also, as the font for this field is smaller, there's less chance that the title of the book ends up disappearing off the side of the screen if the series title is on the longer side.

However, now that the kindle is re-ordering the 'author_sort' field, it's automatically placing the author lastname at the end of the string.

For example, an author field which had previously read:
Bennett, Robert Jackson - Shadow of the Leviathan 1

Now reads:
Robert Jackson - Shadow of the Leviathan 1 Bennett

I genuinely have no idea how to fix this issue. The books are appearing in the correct order (alphabetically by author lastname), but it looks awful and bothers me a lot. Theoretically I could make custom columns for firstname and lastname and force the field to re-order in the way I prefer. However, then the books which are purchased directly from the kindle store, rather than side loaded, won't match.

I've tried to pivot to back to just including series information in the title field, but it no longer seems to be possible to do that? No matter how I arrange my template, the file shows up in my kindle with just the name of the book and nothing else.

I'm extremely frustrated, as I can't stand it when files are disorderly or mismatched. I've spent so many hours making sure all of my metadata is just right only for it to be completely ruined overnight. Dramatic as it sounds, I don't even want to read or look at the damn thing anymore, and am seriously contemplating buying a kobo.

Is anyone else having this issue?