10.31.08
Alphabetize Titles … Updated
When you’re alphabetizing your list of movies, songs, or books, it’s desirable to ignore words such as “The”, “A”, and “An” at the beginning of the titles, as they provide no information and result in a less optimal list.
That’s why we created our ‘Alphabetize Titles‘ sort, shown in the menu as A-Z Title, which answers the question, “How to alphabetize a list while ignoring articles?”.
We were imperfect, however. Some titles start with numbers, and it’s desirable that those numbers are sorted AS numbers, rather than by normal alphabetizing rules. So, we want “The 40 Year Old Virgin” to come BEFORE “101 Dalmations”.
This is now, exactly, how our ‘Alphabetize Titles’ sort works, finally matching the number sorting prowess of the other sorts on Sort My List.