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Old 05-11-2012, 10:46 AM   #1
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I am starting to manage my very large collection of ebooks (see my bit in 'Introduce Yourself) and I have noticed a bit of an anomily in sorting. I am using Ubuntu most of the time but the problem is identical on Windows 7.

In Ascending Title Order I get the following sequence:

2666
365 Foreign Dishes
Evergreen Tree Pruning Calendar
Creating a Water Garden
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
A. V. Laider
Abarat
Abbot's Ghost
The Absent-Minded Coterie

Ignoring the definite article is sensible, but I do not understand the others.

Has anyone any ideas, please?

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Old 05-11-2012, 10:56 AM   #2
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Weird... I just made a test library, added 9 empty book records to it, and then set your titles for each book. I made sure to "copy" the title to the "title sort" field as well and I get the following ascending sequence:


2666
365 Foreign Dishes
A. V. Laider
Abarat
Abbot's Ghost
The Absent-Minded Coterie
Creating a Water Garden
Evergreen Tree Pruning Calendar
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
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Old 05-11-2012, 10:58 AM   #3
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I am starting to manage my very large collection of ebooks (see my bit in 'Introduce Yourself) and I have noticed a bit of an anomily in sorting. I am using Ubuntu most of the time but the problem is identical on Windows 7.

In Ascending Title Order I get the following sequence:

2666
365 Foreign Dishes
Evergreen Tree Pruning Calendar
Creating a Water Garden
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
A. V. Laider
Abarat
Abbot's Ghost
The Absent-Minded Coterie

Ignoring the definite article is sensible, but I do not understand the others.

Has anyone any ideas, please?

Malcolm
Check the "title sort" field in the metadata for the books which are "out of order".
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Old 05-11-2012, 11:25 AM   #4
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I am starting to manage my very large collection of ebooks (see my bit in 'Introduce Yourself) and I have noticed a bit of an anomily in sorting. I am using Ubuntu most of the time but the problem is identical on Windows 7.

In Ascending Title Order I get the following sequence:

2666
365 Foreign Dishes
Evergreen Tree Pruning Calendar
Creating a Water Garden
The Quilt Inn Country Cookbook
A. V. Laider
Abarat
Abbot's Ghost
The Absent-Minded Coterie

Ignoring the definite article is sensible, but I do not understand the others.

Has anyone any ideas, please?

Malcolm
HarryT has it.

Title sort. Select those books, Tap 'E' (bulk Metadata edit shortcut), tick the Automatic Title sort box, click OK

There is a Preference Tweak (at the bottom) for sorting rules: Library order or Alphabetical

Lastly, there is the Quality check Plugin to help find common metadata difficulties
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Old 05-11-2012, 12:43 PM   #5
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Wow, that was quick. Thank you both very much. I wil be (reporting) back.

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Old 05-11-2012, 03:36 PM   #6
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Sorted! Thank you.

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