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Old 06-13-2026, 11:21 PM   #1
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Not Properly Following A-Z Sort For Titles

It's exactly as the title says. It happens in several places in the sorting, but it sometimes doesn't follow proper sorting if the first word in a title is 1-3 letters from what I can tell, and I have no idea how to fix it.
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Old 06-13-2026, 11:35 PM   #2
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It's called "Library Order", if title starts with an article (The, A, An, Is) it's dropped, it can be overridden in Preferences->Tweaks:

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ID: title_series_sorting

Control title and series sorting in the library view.

If set to 'library_order', the title sort field will be used instead of the title. Unless you have manually edited the title sort field, leading articles such as The and A will be ignored.

If set to 'strictly_alphabetic', the titles will be sorted as-is (sort by title instead of title sort). For example, with library_order, The Client will sort under 'C. With strictly_alphabetic, the book will sort under T.

This flag affects calibre's library display. It has no effect on devices. In addition, titles for books added before changing the flag will retain their order until the title is edited.

Editing a title and hitting Enter without changing anything is sufficient to change the sort. Or you can use the 'Update title sort' action in the Bulk metadata edit dialog to update it for many books at once.
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Old 06-13-2026, 11:36 PM   #3
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2 things,
Calibre defaults to Library Order sorts. A, The, and a few others are ignored.
Lower case sorts come after Z

This also assumes title sort in the MDE is not Red.
Quality check Plugin can find sort issues, and the MDE in bulk mode can update the sort (there is a tick box. That is all you need to enter)
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