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Originally Posted by Shykat
What is happening,... I add new ebooks and they show up just fine in the order I add them. In the bottom of the screen where it shows the path to the file, it shows a number after the title... such as (534), (535), etc. As I add another ebook, the next number is assigned to it.
I add ebooks to Calibre to convert in the order I want to load them onto my Device (Android phone or Pandigital Novel White).
The problem arises when I exit Calibre and restart it. The ebooks are no longer in that numerical order. They appear as (534), (537), (527), (477). Basically, the numbers jump all over the place. 
How can I set it up so the ebooks appear in the correct numerical order that I added them in the first place?? |
You can't. That is the database ID, and is not used for anything except uniquely identifying the book.
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I've clicked on date, I've clicked on, Published date. and nothing sorts them back into the order in which I added them into Calibre. When creating the ebooks, I make sure the publish date is the date I added the ebook to Calibre but there appears to be no way of adding a timestamp for the creation time which I'm assuming would make the ebooks sort in the order I add them to Calibre.
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Here you lost me. You have set the pubdate (why that and not the date?) to the date added. You sort on the pubdate, and the screen is not sorted into pubdate (date added) order?
If you want an arbitrary absolute order for your books, then you need to create a custom column and put the sort key you want into that column. In your case, I imagine it would be an int type custom column and you would put the sequence number in that field. I do confess, though, befuddlement as for why you want to do this.