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Old 03-30-2012, 10:43 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by alansplace View Post
Kindle uses the publication date as a secondary sort field. So within an author's group of books (sorting by author) it puts them in order of publication date, most recent first, etc... What I do is I modify the publication date to bogus dates in order to reverse the order so that book 1 of a series is first. I hope that's clear.
That's a nifty little factoid I wasn't aware of. I'd used some of the other tricks (plugboard, changing titles, etc...), but never knew that the publication date had anything to do with sort order.
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