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On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:19:07 -0700, Danny <notREALLY@buffoon.com>
wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:02:16 -0500, "Silver" <Silver@Silver.com> wrote:
>
>>Any Calibre gurus know this:
>>
>>I use Calibre to convert to Mobi from any other format--its a GREAT
>>PROGRAM that I have used since its inception. But I have been unable
>>to find out why the resultant mobi book is named with the author second:
>>ie. Michael Connelly - Harry Bosch 02 The Black Ice.epub comes out
>>Harry Bosch 02 The Black Ice - Michael Connelly. I spend way too much time renaming files as result. Leaving it title first makes sorting difficult. I have spent hours over the years scouring Calibre's setup, but can find no mention of this anomoly--what am I missing?
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>>Silver
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>Once you have loaded books to the Calibre program, Click on the "Edit
>metadata" icon at the top. In the new window to the left of the word
>"Title" there is a little icon with two squares in it and two arrows.
>Click it and it will swap the title with the authors name. If you want
>the authors name to appear last name first and first name last, retype
>it in the "Title Sort" window. If you want the title to read without
>"A" and "The" etc. to appear after a comma then retype it as you want
>it in the "Author Sort" window. Then convert the book to mobi format
>and the file will be author first and title second.
>
>I don't know if there is a shorter way. If there is I hope someone
>will help us both out. Other people have talked about this before and
>I am not sure why the creater of Calibre has never offered the option
>except for the one I have mentioned. My way of dealing with it has
>always been to store all of my books in folders under the author's
>name.
Danny, sorting into folders by author is my workaround for this also.
Then I Cntrl F to remove the author's name from the file name to keep
it neater.
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