From a12b6d043c657eb2dc419d232f7dd0ab57070258 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:14:12 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix sorting by title to correctly handle cases like The
 Thexxx

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
index 7b2f5e6960..332ae79afb 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def title_sort(title):
     match = _title_pat.search(title)
     if match:
         prep = match.group(1)
-        title = title.replace(prep, '') + ', ' + prep
+        title = title[len(prep):] + ', ' + prep
     return title.strip()
 
 coding = zip(