Does Calibre now correct author names in DRM files?
When you get a book from the Kindle store, it contains information called “Metadata”. That information isn’t intended for the reader, and it doesn’t show up when you open the book. It’s really intended for the device showing it. It contains, among other things, the name of the author of the book, and the title of the book. The way it is supposed to work, the reader doesn’t interact with the metadata at all. The problem with that is, well, you may want to change the metadata. For example, some books in the Kindle store list the author by first name first, and some of them by last name first. That leads to the weird sorting you see sometimes on your homescreen. The same goes for titles…you’ll find some where the word “The” is in the beginning, and some where it is at the end…like this: “End, The”. It would be also nice if you could identify series the way you wanted. One popular program to edit metadata is called Calibre. It’s free software, and it does a lot more than that (like convert
