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TarquiniusX · 06-13-2010, 01:03 AM

Thanks for your very fast reply.

I understnat that this is your app and you are developing it, but I can not think of any logical reason to sort authors via their first name.

So right now I'm looking at having to re-do my entire ebook collection (over 2000 titles) just so they disply correctly. I mostly have academic pdf and I rarely bother to remember the authors first name. I've always dealt with family names as I suspect everyone else has too.

Which brings us back to why there are two fields now. Calibre currents automatically changes Douglas Adams to Adams, Douglas and then sorts via the second in the app on the computer, but sorts via the first in the content server. Thus we have an inconsistant method of displaying books.

Also...I've just discovered that while attempting to select several titles and edit meta data individually, it still opens the edit in bulk window.

06-13-2010, 01:03 AM	#5
TarquiniusX Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: iPad	Thanks for your very fast reply. I understnat that this is your app and you are developing it, but I can not think of any logical reason to sort authors via their first name. So right now I'm looking at having to re-do my entire ebook collection (over 2000 titles) just so they disply correctly. I mostly have academic pdf and I rarely bother to remember the authors first name. I've always dealt with family names as I suspect everyone else has too. Which brings us back to why there are two fields now. Calibre currents automatically changes Douglas Adams to Adams, Douglas and then sorts via the second in the app on the computer, but sorts via the first in the content server. Thus we have an inconsistant method of displaying books. Also...I've just discovered that while attempting to select several titles and edit meta data individually, it still opens the edit in bulk window.