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Originally Posted by chaley
@all of you with 650s:
As I have said, I don't have a 650. However, given the questions in this thread, I read the manual and several reviews. One thing stands out. Apparently a 650 can change the sort order when displaying collections (my 300 cannot). I don't know what all the options are, but it seems that the choices include (at least) author, title, and "by added order".
When calibre builds a collection, it does it in such a way that the reader thinks the books were added in the order dictated by the sort calibre used. As such, calibre's order will (or should) be seen only when 'by added order' is selected. Selecting anything else will sort in some other way. My guess is that choosing author will sort the collection strictly alphabetically using the author field, in which case 'David Weber' will sort before 'Eric Flint' because 'D' is less than 'E'. If there is a title option, then again I guess that it will sort strictly alphabetically, but in this case it might use the title_sort field instead of the title field.
Can anyone confirm the above?
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I was beginning to wonder if we were talking across each other - I think this confirms it! The options I have to sort by within a collection are: Added Order (default showing), Date, Title, Author, File Name. And yes, Author sorts alphabetically by first name (although through a thread on this forum I was able to change the names displayed to Last Name, First Name and it now sorts by last name when I sort by Author.) I am not sure how to determine if Title is sorting by title or title_sort - I think by title_sort, though, since it does ignore the articles a,an,the?
What I had originally wanted was, when I sort by Author in a collection, to see w/in each author series arranged in order, which obviously hasn't worked out so well. However - given what you've said about the "By Added Order" option, I can see that on my device "Added Order" displays books in order by title, and if there is series information the series title is substituted for the title, and then w/in series sorted by series index - and sorts all series correctly(!). If I could get it to sort, on the "Added Order" display, by author first and then in order by title & series information, that would be pretty damn close to what I want. I'm assuming (hoping!) there's probably a way to adjust my #sony_sort column to reflect this?