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Originally Posted by Chris_Snow
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))
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restart calibre and see if the pattern changes.
Many Random number generators start with a seed (which may persist for the session). Same seed, same pattern.
Since I use the PARB to select the next to read, I have a search (filter) not #read <= my fieldname
Now it chooses from what shows, not from the whole Library
BTW I had not noticed any pattern, but I might have a few more books, so it is less obvious