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Originally Posted by ShellShock View Post
The possible formats of author names is so varied, especially with initials versus full names, multiple authors etc, that it is safer for Calibre to assume that if an author name is defined in the OPF it should use it and not override it with what may be an incorrectly derived value.
But if it matches the author name, it's incorrect. If it's all caps it's incorrect. Those are situations that should be fixed by calibre when getting the metadata from the OPF.
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