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How does calibre manage author names and sorting?
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Author names are complex, especially across cultures, see `this note <http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names.en.php?changelang=en>`_ for some of complexities. calibre has a very flexible strategy for managing author names. The first thing to understand is that books and authors are separate entities in calibre. A book can have more than one author, and an author can have more than one book. You can manage the authors of a book by the edit metadata dialog. You can manage individual authors by right clicking on the author in the Tag Browser on the left of the main calibre screen and selecting :guilabel:`Manage authors`. Using this dialog you can change the name of an author and also how that name is sorted. This will automatically change the name of the author in all the books of that author. When a book has multiple authors, separate their names using the & character.
Author names are complex, especially across cultures, see `this note
<http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names.en.php?changelang=en>`_
for some of the complexities. calibre has a very flexible strategy for managing
author names. The first thing to understand is that books and authors are
separate entities in calibre. A book can have more than one author, and an
author can have more than one book. You can manage the authors of a book by the
edit metadata dialog. You can manage individual authors by right clicking on
the author in the Tag Browser on the left of the main calibre screen and
selecting :guilabel:`Manage authors`. Using this dialog you can change the name
of an author and also how that name is sorted. This will automatically change
the name of the author in all the books of that author. When a book has
multiple authors, separate their names using the & character.
Now coming to author name sorting:
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.. note::
When changing from FN LN to LN, FN, it is often the case that the values in author_sort are already in LN, FN format. If this is your case, then do the following:
* set the ``author_sort_copy_method`` tweak to ``copy`` as described above.
* restart calibre. Do not change any book metadata before doing the remaining steps.
* open the Manage authors dialog. Press the ``copy all author sort values to author`` button.
* Set the ``author_sort_copy_method`` tweak to ``copy`` as described above.
* Restart calibre. Do not change any book metadata before doing the remaining steps.
* Open the Manage authors dialog. Press the ``copy all author sort values to author`` button.
* Check through the authors to be sure you are happy. You can still press Cancel to abandon the changes. Once you press OK, there is no undo.
* Press OK, at which point calibre will change the authors in all your books. This can take a while.