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Old 05-04-2025, 06:29 AM   #8
chaley
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Originally Posted by Catfishers View Post
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
It looks like the kindle is treating this as a LN, FN author, reordering it so it appears as FN LN. One way to fool the kindle is to use a charater that looks like a comma but isn't. Something like this:
  • ‚ (single low-9 quotation mark),
  • ❟ heavy low single comma quotation mark ornament
  • ﹐small comma
You can replace the comma with the chosen character in a plugboard. NB: This only works when using calibre to send the book. Plugboards do nothing when using an external app to send the book such as Send to Kindle.

EDIT: you can replace the commas in the author_sort field in calibre using Manage Authors. These changes should be used by Send to Kindle, although I don't know that.

A comprehensive list of options is at https://www.amp-what.com/unicode/search/comma

Last edited by chaley; 05-04-2025 at 06:32 AM.
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