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Old 11-18-2025, 11:40 AM   #20
chaley
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Notts, England
Device: Kobo Libra 2
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirtel View Post
Only bear in mind that if you use calibre to send books to a Kobo eink reader, then your Kobo won't like the author names to be LN, FN - it wants them to be FN LN.

Personally I use LN, FN in my main library and FN LN in a separate sub-library, and use the latter for interaction with my Kobos.
I have a Kobo Libra 2 and use LN,FN in my library. I use a metadata plugboard to "fix" the authors (change them to FN LN) when a book is sent from calibre to my kobo.

The plugboard:
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The template as text:
Code:
program:
	comma = '';
	res = '';
	for author in $authors separator '&':
		res = strcat(res, comma, swap_around_comma(author));
		comma = ', '
	rof;
	res
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