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Originally Posted by kaufman
Yes, but a widget that just showed the last X books covers in a row (whatever would fit) with no scrolling might be nice. That would actually be the one I would use. Most recent book on the left, three next older books to the right.
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The current grid view in 2x2 gives you much of this. You see the 4 latest books in two rows.
It would be trivial to make the grid view contain 4 books and be 4 columns x 1 row. This would give you the functional equivalent of the horizontal list. However, I experimented with it and found that it is useless less than (3 wide x 1 high) and best (4 wide x 1 high).
I originally intended the grid for e-ink devices where swipes and scrolls are not good things. However, using it on my Afterglow 2 e-ink reader I find that cover thumbnails are really hard to differentiate in grey scale, so I am now using the list-with-text view, which works fine because the text is easily readable. Hence I have no problem changing the grid to be a 4-book single-line widget, in effect giving the horizontal layout. Its minimum width would be "3 cells".
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Originally Posted by jackie_w
re: 2 & 3 - Just a comment, you could actually do this already with a bunch of CC shortcuts.
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Very good point. I must remember this for when I write the eventual FAQ.
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I think there should be a way to remove books from the list. I sometimes open a book by mistake and remove it from the CC last read order by clearing the read date. I also just noticed that if I remove all widgets and then add a new one, I still get the book that is now in CC with no last read date. That may be ok if you remove and add a widget immediately, but what if you create a widget days later? That book with no CC read date will be in the list and if you compare it to the CC last read order you will think it is a bug.
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What you are seeing is caused by the difference between "last read" and "last opened". One does not necessarily imply the other. For example, doing a WD connection with calibre and syncing a last-read date should not update the widgets. Some people have turned off the auto last-read-date update because they don't want to set a date until they have finished the book. All of this is really to say that I agree with you that removing a book from the list is more important than adding a book to the list.