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Old 10-20-2017, 11:56 PM   #1
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Author sort on Kobo Aura One?

I have recently purchased a Kobo Aura One. I am having trouble trying to figure out how to do an author sort by Fn Ln. I have a plugboard that I used with my old Kindle DX for series/index/author that works just great on the Kobo, but I can't seem to get the sort order that I want for authors. I hope someone can point me in the right direction.
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Old 10-21-2017, 12:44 AM   #2
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What's the problem you are having?

Kobo devices do not use the author sort, only the author. It assumes any author is "LN FN" but doesn't handle two word surnames ("von Soandso"). "LN, FN" will work when sorting in the book list, but, Kobo uses the comma as the separator for multiple authors. The author collections are built based on the commas. So, "LN, FN" will produce collections for both "LN" and "FN".

And for the record, the plugboard I use for authors is:
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{authors:'re(re($, '(.*) & ', '\1 and '), ' & ', ', ')'}
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Old 10-21-2017, 03:05 PM   #3
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What's the problem you are having?

Kobo devices do not use the author sort, only the author. It assumes any author is "LN FN" but doesn't handle two word surnames ("von Soandso"). "LN, FN" will work when sorting in the book list, but, Kobo uses the comma as the separator for multiple authors. The author collections are built based on the commas. So, "LN, FN" will produce collections for both "LN" and "FN".

And for the record, the plugboard I use for authors is:
Code:
{authors:'re(re($, '(.*) & ', '\1 and '), ' & ', ', ')'}
So are you saying it's not possible to sort by first name in book view?
Not sure what your plugboard does....definitely above my pay grade.
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Old 10-21-2017, 09:21 PM   #4
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So are you saying it's not possible to sort by first name in book view?
Not really. The sort in the book list parses the author information based on rules built into the code and sorts on that. There are several long discussions on sorting in the Kobo forum. From memory, someone did post a plugboard to achieved this by replacing the spaces with another character. I can't remember if they used an underscore or some other character like a non-breaking space.
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Not sure what your plugboard does....definitely above my pay grade.
Sorry, I pasted an old version of the plugboard. The version above uses "and" as the connector between multiple authors. It would produced "FN1 LN1 and FN2 LN2". This doesn't work with the author list on the Kobo. This would be treated as a single author, rather than two.

The plugboard I am currently using is:
Code:
program: raw_list('authors', ', ')
This puts a comma between each author name. That works in all places on the device.
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Take a look at this discution:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=287230
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Old 10-22-2017, 01:25 PM   #6
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The plugboard I am currently using is:
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program: raw_list('authors', ', ')
Just two days back I realised that multi author books show only one author in kobo and was going through multiple threads and trying different solutions.

Anyways, this is working for me; thanks.
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