Bowker source is swapping lastname firstname (again?)

Previous bug that was focused on LOC but mentioned Bowker: https://www.librarything.com/topic/305733

Replication:

Go to Add Books
Enter ISBN (or title)
Choose Bowker Books in Print
Click Search
Result will say something like {Title} by {lastname firstname}
Click it to add
List will now have title
Click edit book
Author will be {firstname, lastname}

Same result from iPhone app.

Thanks. We'll check it.

bump

I'm guessing this is because LibraryThing assumes that {name name} is to be parsed as {first last} when Bowker is actually doing {last first} with no comma. If they did, LibraryThing would interpret {name, name} as {last, first}. I'm not sure how we can handle this: maybe we need to put in a special instance for Bowker?

To reproduce:
1. Go to /addbooks and add "Bowker Books in Print" to your sources
2. Search for "witch elm" and see all/most of the results show "French Tana" as the author. Select any of those titles to add it to your library.
3. Click to edit the book, and look at the Author field.

Issue: The author name is getting parsed as "Tana, French".

Conclusion: this isn't a true bug per se, but just badly formatted data on Bowker's end. LibraryThing parses the data it's given, for everything. I'm also seeing inconsistent behavior with their data, so if we parsed their data one way it would still be broken for some results. This isn't something we can handle with this data source, unfortunately.

>5 kristilabrie: Too bad. Thanks for checking.

>5 kristilabrie: Meh. "I'm also seeing inconsistent behavior with their data..." Ok, but which is more "consistent behavior" from Bowker First, Last or Last, First. Because there has never been a book I have ever added from Bowker that didn't need the name fixed. I'd rather fix the name 1 out every 50 than 49 out of every 50.