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superplinio · 02-09-2010, 02:39 PM

I find the information about the authors of a book a bit confusing.

I like to order the authors using the surname so I want in the authors filter to see something like this:

* Asimov, Isaac
* Card, Orson Scott

etc.

My first attempt was to introduce the author as "Asimov, Isaac" but Calibre understands that there are two different authors called "Asimov" and "Isaac" respectively.

The second attempt was to introduce "Isaac Asimov". The name in correctly identified and the Author sort shows "Asimov, Isaac" as I wanted. But sadly the information of the authors that is normally showed is that of the Authors name and not the Authors sort, so I have the collection ordered by name and not by surname as I wanted.

The final solution is a not very elegant fix, I put as the name "Asimov Isaac" and fixed the author sort manually.

So my main question is... Is it possible to show the author sort column in the main table of calibre instead of the author name? is it any strategy to sort authors by surname different from the one I had chosen.

Regards...

02-09-2010, 02:39 PM	#1
superplinio Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: Sony PRS 600	Author names I find the information about the authors of a book a bit confusing. I like to order the authors using the surname so I want in the authors filter to see something like this: * Asimov, Isaac * Card, Orson Scott etc. My first attempt was to introduce the author as "Asimov, Isaac" but Calibre understands that there are two different authors called "Asimov" and "Isaac" respectively. The second attempt was to introduce "Isaac Asimov". The name in correctly identified and the Author sort shows "Asimov, Isaac" as I wanted. But sadly the information of the authors that is normally showed is that of the Authors name and not the Authors sort, so I have the collection ordered by name and not by surname as I wanted. The final solution is a not very elegant fix, I put as the name "Asimov Isaac" and fixed the author sort manually. So my main question is... Is it possible to show the author sort column in the main table of calibre instead of the author name? is it any strategy to sort authors by surname different from the one I had chosen. Regards...