Allow sorting to remove "The" from titles

[lukeskope]

Idea Description

When browsing series, would like a toggle to ignore "The" at the beginning of titles. For example, sometimes Comic Vine tags Avengers comics as The Avengers, and other times simply Avengers. I would like an option to ignore "The" in a series title so all Avengers titles appear together. This is very common, CDisplayex has a toggle. Plex ignores "The" by default, as does Music Bee.

Idea Category

User Experience

Duration of Using Kavita

2 months

Before submitting

• I've already searched for existing ideas before posting.

[DeepHueStudios]

I totally second this. This functionality is pretty standard on most media management and server software. The ability to ignore "The" and "A" and all other language instances of this for example "El" "Les" etc.

[Nebelherr23]

I third this. While most of the reader apps account for this, I'd love for the Web UI to support this as well, so I have less of a reason to use a 3rd party app.

[Daniel9425]

I just came to the github page to ask for this exactly. I've been using Kavita for a few months now and I just noticed this the other day when I went browsing through my library. I think I didn't notice it before, but I typically search for what I want to read or am reading book listed under recently added.
I spent about 10 minutes going through all my books and modifying the Sort Name of any of my books that begin with "A", "An", or "The" to remove those articles from the sort name. But it would be better if Kavita could just do that automatically. For individual books that are not part of a series, the Sort Name that I set in Calibre would be the preferred source of the Sort Name in Kavita, but for Series names, I would like Kavita to remove/ignore articles at the beginning of the Series names.