Author name reversed Calibre to Kindle

Joey Ferri · 03-01-2022, 06:40 PM

I used gmx to email a book from Calibre to Kindle. On my iphone, I opened the email, tapped the attachment, and the filename was Title-Author.mobi.
Using the share function, I attempted to open the book in Kindle. First I moved the author name to the field specified, and shortened the filename to just include the title. All good.
Nope, the book downloaded, but with the authors firstname and surname in the wrong order. Ok, I'll delete it from the library, and try again, this time putting the surname first. Same result.

kovidgoyal · 03-02-2022, 10:23 AM

Use the setting under Preferences->Output options->MOBI output->Use author sort for author. The kindle does that author sort metadata, so it overloads the author field for it.

03-01-2022, 06:40 PM	#1
Joey Ferri Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2022 Device: several	Author name reversed Calibre to Kindle I used gmx to email a book from Calibre to Kindle. On my iphone, I opened the email, tapped the attachment, and the filename was Title-Author.mobi. Using the share function, I attempted to open the book in Kindle. First I moved the author name to the field specified, and shortened the filename to just include the title. All good. Nope, the book downloaded, but with the authors firstname and surname in the wrong order. Ok, I'll delete it from the library, and try again, this time putting the surname first. Same result. Last edited by Joey Ferri; 03-01-2022 at 06:45 PM.

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03-02-2022, 10:23 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,967 Karma: 22669822 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use the setting under Preferences->Output options->MOBI output->Use author sort for author. The kindle does that author sort metadata, so it overloads the author field for it.

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