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Old 10-01-2011, 12:22 AM   #1
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import mobi - author field reversed

I can add books from any source other than amazon & calibre gets the author field correct.

but when I add a retail book from kindle store, the author shows as last,first name.

is this due to non standard behavior of kindle books or is there a tweak that will sort it ?

my calibre add books preferences are set to default I think. there is an option on the preferences screen to swap author first & last names but as said above it's only Kindle that needs swapping. i.e.default is fine for for all "found" sources

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Old 10-01-2011, 09:39 AM   #2
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is this due to non standard behavior of kindle books or is there a tweak that will sort it ?
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assuming you meant "and" instead of "or" in your compound question.
"no" its not non-standard behavior in Kindle books but instead non-standard, by Kindle standards, behavior in the others AND yes there is a method to accommodate to this behavior in calibre.

It's not non-standard behavior in Kindle books that you are seeing. It is a convention in Kindle/Mobipocket books to accomidate the long present behavior in Mobipocket reading software, whether traditional Mobipocket or modern Kindle. The software's sorting of ebooks by author expects the Ln/Fn arrangement. If anything is non-standard, it's the non-Amazon books using Fn/Ln

I keep my book in calibre and keep them all in Fn/Ln. I have my Save to Disk and Send to Device functions tweaked to use {author_sort} (calibre's Ln,Fn arrangement) rather than {author} so that the books on my device sort properly.

This also allows me to manually enter customized text in calibre's {author_sort} field for a particular book when the automatic conversion from Fn/Ln fails (e.g. when the author's last name is multiple words, ...)
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ok - so what exactly do I need to change, so that add books works correctly with Kindle books, yet continues to work correctly with other sources ?
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Old 10-01-2011, 10:50 AM   #4
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ok - so what exactly do I need to change, so that add books works correctly with Kindle books, yet continues to work correctly with other sources ?
I am not sure you can (have it both ways at the same time).
You could just do an extra step after import of 'kindle books' and Bulk Edit those selections and use the (saved template) Search and Replace to fix the Author name order.
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ok - so what exactly do I need to change, so that add books works correctly with Kindle books, yet continues to work correctly with other sources ?
Install the Quick preferences plugin. This plugin allows you to change quickly between various Add books import preferences. See attached for my quick preferences setup.
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thanks - as its only about 1 book per week I can fix manually - just needed to be sure I was not missing an obvious tweak.
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