Thread: Confused about using calibredb to update author, etc
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Old 12-12-2025, 05:44 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Dan__ View Post
Hello,
I noticed that some my authors were not in mypreferred format (ln, fn mi) so I used calibre db to list allmy book ids and author and saved to file. Thenedited the file to correct some author names.

I also noticed te in calibre gui the author_sort field was empty even though editing metadata shows author_sort info.

So i ran calibredb modify using book id to set author and author_sort to my edited names.

Returning to GUI, nome of telisted author names changed not did an new author_sort info appear in te list.

This has me confused. What if anything did Iaccomplish bydoingall of that?

I hope someone will enlighten me; thisis the first time using any of the cli stuff

Thank ou
Better off using the GUI because then you can use the Quality Check plugin to sort out the author names.
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