[Starson17]

Originally Posted by GRiker

If there are multiple unrelated authors, Author Sort should be:
last_primary & first_secondary last_secondary, first_primary

which displays on the Kindle as
John Smith & William Jones

That's odd. I always enter the author field as:

John Smith & William Jones

then I click the author_sort button (on the metadata single dialog screen), which enters it as:

Smith, John & Jones, William

If there are multiple related authors, Author Sort should be:
last_primary, first_primary & first_secondary

Smith, John & Nancy

which displays on the Kindle as
John & Nancy Smith

In this case, I just enter:

John Smith & Nancy Smith

which, after clicking the author_sort button, becomes:

Smith, John & Smith, Nancy

I've never tried your method. Is there any problem if I search for Nancy Smith and/or John Smith as the author? IOW, is "Smith, John & Nancy" properly parsed as two authors named Smith?