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Originally Posted by kaufman
I've been thinking about our conversation about sorting and direction. Would it be a lot of effort to add a specific direction to the default sort? I'm not sure anyone would ever pick anything other than forward sort, but it might cut down on support emails from people who didn't understand why the sort was reversing sometimes.
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I have already made changes so that sorts triggered by autosort are always in the "default" direction, the same as the first tap on an item in in the sort menu. Sorts will reverse only if tapped again on the sort menu itself.
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Another thought I had was to change the sort dialog a little so that there was a checkbox for direction instead of making the second selection a reverse. This way it would be clear which way the sort was going to go when you selected it. I'm not sure how much work that would be for you. I'm trying to only suggest low-hanging fruits. 
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Lots of applications including calibre use "tap again to reverse". In addition, adding checkboxes to menus that already have radio buttons is complicated, and perhaps impossible.
I might be able to add an icon to the sort menu indicating the sort direction the currently marked item. My problem is that I never am sure what those arrows mean. Does an arrow pointing up mean that the list is sorted from bottom to top (i.e., descending sort) or from low to high (i.e., ascending sort)? This ambiguity is one reason I haven't bothered with trying to indicate the direction.
BTW: the default direction for dates is descending. All the other sorts are ascending.