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Originally Posted by fanficdude1
I use CC a LOT. I bought specifically because the moon reader pro app suggested it (also great btw) It's my go-to fanfic library app, but how can it get it to sort on date_modified?!
Calibre itself has a column for this, "modified" lookup name "date_modified"
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Calibre doesn't have a field "date_modified". I am fairly sure you mean "last_modified".
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CC doesn't seem to have this column in ANY of its many sort column screens.
Am I missing something?
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No, CC does not support sorting on calibre's last_modified. And in fact I don't see much use in it, given that last_modified is changed for any one of a zillion reasons internal to calibre, not just for changes you explicitly make.
That said, the date "Date updated (CC)" is a reasonable stand-in for calibre's last modified date. It is updated whenever new metadata is received from calibre during a wireless device connection, or when a book is downloaded using the cloud or content server connections.
If you really want to have the last_modified date available to sort then you can do it by creating a custom column "built from other columns", use the template
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{last_modified:format_date(yyyy-MMM-dd hh:mm:ss)}
then in CC add that custom column to the sort menu. Note that adding the column will update the last_modified date for every book in your library.
Also, given that you are dealing with fanfic, it is worth noting that in calibre, changing a book format file does not change last_modified. It is my understanding that fanfic books change a lot without necessarily changing any metadata for the book, but my understanding may be totally wrong.
