[chaley]

Originally Posted by kintrupf

Currently I'm using the "CC Book Grid 3x1" with 4 covers. I have a Energy Sistem Pro+ Reader with Nova Launcher. Works very well

I have resized the widget and set padding to off in Nova Laucher, so that the widget covers the entire width of the screen. However, the covers do not scale very well, as you can see on the image. They should fill the maximum space available for the widget, don't you think?
And I guess the covers should be centered in their "box" and not "stacked" as on the image.

That must be a stack widget, not a grid widget. Below is a screen capture off my Afterglow 2 (my wife has my Energy Systems Pro). The top widget is a 4-wide grid widget. The bottom one is a 4-wide stack widget. The bottom one looks like yours.


If you really want the covers to fill all available space then you need to change Settings / Covers and Thumbnails / Cover shape to be "Square box, stretch to fit". This will make CC expand the covers to fit the area available, ignoring the cover aspect ratio. I don't like the result, but others do. Selecting any of the other three options causes CC to use portrait covers.

If you change the cover shape option then you must either reboot the device or delete+add the widget.

I use a blank wallpaper, but optionally adding a border and an opaque background would be great, too. For those who like it it could be one of the "bookshelf" textures, but I would prefer a single color.

We went through this when the widgets were being developed. The user community almost unanimously wanted no border and a transparent background. The exception was the book list widget, where reading the text was very hard without a guaranteed dark background. Another problem is that desktop widgets are severely limited in what graphics objects can be used inside them and, for those that can be used, which options are available. Add to the list that I didn't want to add yet more options that I must maintain and explain, and we end up where we are. Sorry.

Having a second widget with recently added books would be great, too.
Same general layout than the other widgets, but instead of read books add the covers of recently added books in descending order. To distinguish the widgets you could add a small title in the upper left or right corner.

Interesting idea. Of course, as soon as I add "date added" then someone will want "date updated" and "calibre date" and all the other dates. And both ascending and descending. And grouped by genre. Or only one author. And ... Fairly soon we have all of CC in a widget.

I am not sure that I can add a title without adding a title bar (again, the limits of widgets), which would be rather ugly. There would also be problems with coloring the area behind the title. This needs thought.

Do note that you can see the book list/grid in CC sorted by date added, so it is possible to get what you want if you open CC.