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Surname sorting

Scott V 19 years, 3 months ago at Jan 29 15:15 -
I love the site, BUT, the book aspect is a bit useless - when compared to Library Thing - as in author sorting it sorts by author's first name. Why would you ever want to sort you book collection by the letter that the author's first name begins with? Also am I missing something or can't you search your own content set? These gripes aside, still a thumbs up.
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Tom 19 years, 3 months ago at Jan 30 14:33 -
The search within your own content is planned. The surname thing can be done it's just that the data isn't in a good format for that at the moment.
Scott V 19 years, 3 months ago at Feb 1 22:39 -
Tom, glad to hear that the search feature is planned, and that the surname thing is a least a future possibility.
Fruitbat 19 years, 3 months ago at Feb 2 21:20 -
Beat me to it!

It also appears that the author name is not "normalised". I have 2 books by the same author and the name is spelt differently in each case. Presumably, this is just how amazon stores the name.