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Originally Posted by DavidTC
That sounds strange to me. Barring the word 'orderable', I don't see what advantage that has over tags or making a custom column. (In fact, I don't quite understand how the books are orderable, they do not seem to such to me.)
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It was originally about allowing users to easily maintain multiple lists of books in an order that they want to read them - that is where the "order" comes in. You can specify the order when you edit a list - there are up/down buttons on that screen allowing you to change it, and the results are reflected when you view the list.
As for the rest - you got it right when you said you don't understand the calibre API or the reasons why many plugins don't use custom columns. And having an attitude about it doesn't exactly engender me to try to explain it.