|
I appreciate your replies, I really do, but...
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding of the basic issue here.
In previous versions of Calibre (prior to the 0.7.x release I mean) when you add a new ebook to the collection you could edit the 'Author(s)' value and Calibre would automatically set the 'Author sort' value. It still does that; I just checked.
In the app itself on the computer (for me Windows 7), when the collection is sorted by the 'Author(s)' column, the column displays 'First name, Family name', but the books are actually sorted via 'Family name, First name' as found in the 'Author sort' in the meta data. Thus the value for 'Author(s)' was displayed, but sorting was carried out employing the value in the Author sort entry of the meta data.
The issue is with the order when sorted on the content server. It is sorting via first name, family name not family name, first name as it did in previous versions. I don't see this as an issue of an algorithm that converts names correctly, nor a cultural issue of name order. I live in Japan I know all about that. These things have already been decided before the content server is generated. The change has come in which value the content server is using to sort via author and First Name, Family Name is a system that quite frankly is not in common use.
I feel my only option now is to downgrade to a 0.6.x so that it worked in a logical manner.
I just added a new book to my library. It correctly found the Author's name (in this case Peter Stone). The Author(s) has been set to Peter Stone and the author sort has been set to Stone, Peter. When I sort in Calibre via the Author(s) coulmn, Peter Stone appears with all the other authors whose falimy names start with an 'S'. When I look for this book in the content server however it is listed with all the books written by authors whose first name start with 'P'. This is what I mean by inconsistance.
If I manually edit the meta data so that the Author is 'Stone, Peter' Calibre attempts to change this to 'Peter, Stone,'.
|