The following responses are purely personal preferences and may not reflect the majority of PRS-650 owners.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Regarding display by author, I matched the screen shot of the by-author list with the db. The books are shown in the order they appear in the database, which is the order that they were originally sent. I might be able to do something about this, for example sorting the db itself by title, which should fix the 'by author' display. I will look at it.
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If this option was available it would be my No.1 choice. I don't see how the 650's current default for Sort by Author would be useful to anyone. It must be a bug in the 650 (and 350???) firmware as they handled it sensibly on the PRS505. I never had a PRS600 so I don't know about the intermediate model's firmware.
I can live with my 'Sort by Filename' workaround for as long as it takes.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Regarding the by title display: we now have a workaround, although not the prettiest one. Are you OK with using the underscores? Note that you will need to do the same thing if you ever have a series that begins with an article.
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Because I have passed the PRS505 to my husband and the same Plugboard is used for both Sonys I, personally, don't want to replace Title spaces with underscores.
Personally, I don't keep hundreds of books on my reader so I can easily live with the 650's current default. The main thing is being aware what to expect.
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Originally Posted by chaley
We do have another option. Calibre could create collections 'By Author' and 'By Title', using the added order stuff that seems to work. Would this be useful?
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Yes, as long as it was All Books.
I'd already considered adding a special tag to all books in the calibre Library which were currently on the 650. In fact I already did it for this testing and used it to do the screencaps for Collections in my initial post. It works very well, but I know I'd never remember to keep adding/removing the tag.
If you can create the 'By Author' and 'By Title' Collections automatically then they'd be my No.2 choice. No.2 rather than No.1 on the flimsy reason that 'Sort all by Author' is one button-press from the Home screen and Collections, select new 'By Author' is a minimum of two depending on which page the "special" Collections appear. I'm attaching another screencap of the Collections page(s) so you can see what it looks like when you select 'Collections' from the Home screen. The first 4 are Sony defaults and nothing to do with anything I've done.
Thank you, so much for taking the time to look at this in such depth. I will be happy to do any testing you want, so don't hesitate to ask. If the weather continues we'll all be confined to barracks anyway and needing something to keep busy. Any improvement you can come up with will be very much appreciated.