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Originally Posted by mores
What Worldwalker means, I think, is that while the sorting is done by author_sort, it still displays the Author like Firstname Lastname. I too find that kind of distracting, to see a
Paolo Bacigalupi listed before a
David Baldacci.
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I am not quite sure what you are asking for.
Assume we Paolo Bacigalupi, David Baldacci, and Peter Anderson. Should they be displayed in the order Peter Anderson, Paolo Bacigalupi, then David Baldacci (as they will be today, sorted ln, fn), David Baldacci, Paolo Bacigalupi, Peter Anderson (as they would be if sorted fn ln), or something else?
The first you have today. The second you can have by setting the author_sort tweak to cause calibre to copy the author directly to author_sort without reversing the names, then using the bulk metadata editor to reset all the author_sort fields. The third ...
I avoid the problem by entering my authors in library order (ln, fn). That way author and author sort are the same, so sorting and seeing is the same.
BTW: my post where I said that calibre "never sorts by author": I should have said "never sorts book lists by author". Calibre does sort author lists by author.