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Old 05-16-2016, 01:35 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by whismerhill View Post
hi,
I'm having issues knowing/understanding/controlling how calibre sorts stuff

for example if I sort by series then by Author it will be sorted by :
- 1 Author A - Z
- 2 Series A - Z
however on the UI it only shows the Author sorting not the series subsorting
minor gripe I know but still. More complex issue follows.

It does strange stuff (for me at least) that I would like to understand better
For example I had a series of books in both french & english
I didn't understand why it wasn't sorted by series given that "series" was the column with the black triangle so in my mind it had to be the primary sorting

Despite that it displayed something ordered like this :
  • Series[1]bookname French
  • Series[3]bookname French
  • Series[4]bookname French
  • Otherbooks
  • Series[2]bookname English
  • Series[5]bookname English

And I understood after a while that the difference was the language, e.g. it seemed despite the black triangle indicating that books should be sorted by series. it still had a primary sorting by language.

Any hindsight ? why does it behave like this ?
any way to control it better ? ....
Calibre Biases by previous sorts
IIRC the default is 5 (mine is at 3)

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