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Chaly, I'm not concerned about the change in the author sort now that I know what was going on; it fixed what I considered to be a long standing bug. Thank you for that. It just caught me with my cyber pants down.
Walt, if the spontaneous change was a "feature," then I am concerned because when it occurred, I had made no changes to the metadata. The affected books were already in Calibre and, short of possibly viewing the entries (but not from the edit screen), I had made no changes.
I put feature in quotes because of a running joke we used to have on a forum for my music notation program. Some of the fan boys would try to dismiss a bug as being a design feature. In some cases, it was true that an alleged bug was a poorly designed feature that wrecked a function everyone had been happy with up to the time of the change but too often, the so called design feature was actually caused by an oversight by the programmers that was not caught due to poor beta testing (that line of notation programs is notorious for the number of bugs and "design features" that slip through; to be fair, I must point out that they are very complex programs that one could say suffer from feature bloat except all the features are there because there are people who use them). Many of of us, to avoid argument (and because we were sagacious donkeys), started using "design feature" (in quotes) to refer to bugs.
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