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Chris_Snow · 09-15-2013, 05:12 PM

Greetings,

I've started using the "Pick Random Book" function within Calibre. But I've found that it's not really selecting the books randomly.

I used this function to select the last book I read, but now as I use this function again to pick my next book, it selects the book I've just read again, then using it again, it keeps picking the same books that I cycled through the time before - almost like it's picking say...book 10, book 23, book 37 - and then using the same sequence again. I doubt it's structured like this, but that's what it seems to be doing.

Is there such a thing as a random regex string that I can save as a search, that uses a specific view (eg R2R (One of my custom sort views))

09-15-2013, 05:12 PM	#1
Chris_Snow Zealot Posts: 148 Karma: 8170 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: kobo glo	"Pick Random Book" - not so random?? Greetings, I've started using the "Pick Random Book" function within Calibre. But I've found that it's not really selecting the books randomly. I used this function to select the last book I read, but now as I use this function again to pick my next book, it selects the book I've just read again, then using it again, it keeps picking the same books that I cycled through the time before - almost like it's picking say...book 10, book 23, book 37 - and then using the same sequence again. I doubt it's structured like this, but that's what it seems to be doing. Is there such a thing as a random regex string that I can save as a search, that uses a specific view (eg R2R (One of my custom sort views)) Last edited by Chris_Snow; 09-15-2013 at 05:17 PM.