I've got an ebook reader for my tablet (Aldiko on a 7" Galaxy Tab) and it allows me to browse by author, title, tag, or collection. The tag feature is terribly abused by composers, but users can whack away at the mess and edit them as needed. I'm probably wrong to be using the tags both for classifications such as 'history' and to organize collections together.
I have no idea why tags are case sensitive, so that Fantasy and fantasy are two different groups. On the other hand I can understand why a computer program doesn't grok that Charlie Stross and Stross, Charles are the same person.
I have yet to buy a batch of a dozen ebooks without finding at least one that has incorrect metadata. These are purchased ebooks, not dodgy pirated crap.
I have seen author names written with the surname first (that's what the author sort field is for), Books actually lacking an author name altogether, anthologies with the names of every author in the TOC listed under author name, but not the editor's name, books with the author name in the title field, and so on and so on. Not to mention misspellings of titles, authors, you name it. If an authors name was wrong on the spine of a physical book, someone loses their job, but It's like they don't care and cannot be bothered to check the equivalent basic things on their ebooks.
Never mind the comlete mess in the tags, which are so bad and so inconsistent that I often start by just clearing the field entirely.
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2017-08-01 09:48 am
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I have no idea why tags are case sensitive, so that Fantasy and fantasy are two different groups. On the other hand I can understand why a computer program doesn't grok that Charlie Stross and Stross, Charles are the same person.
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I have seen author names written with the surname first (that's what the author sort field is for), Books actually lacking an author name altogether, anthologies with the names of every author in the TOC listed under author name, but not the editor's name, books with the author name in the title field, and so on and so on. Not to mention misspellings of titles, authors, you name it. If an authors name was wrong on the spine of a physical book, someone loses their job, but It's like they don't care and cannot be bothered to check the equivalent basic things on their ebooks.
Never mind the comlete mess in the tags, which are so bad and so inconsistent that I often start by just clearing the field entirely.