Attached is a beta with three changes in it:
- In the "Update metadata in Device Library":
- Add option to change the "Date Added".
- Add option to set the "Reading Direction".
- Add French translation of help. Thanks to @Fenchdummy.
The option for setting the "Date Added" on the device will affect the "Recent" and "Date Added" sorts. If you add books to the device as you add them to calibre, these sorts will reflect the order the books were added. But, if reload the device after a factory reset or signing out of an account, or buying a new device, these sorts will basically show the books in title order. The "Date Added" option allows you to set the date for the books on the device from calibre. The choices at the moment are; "Date" (usually the date the book was added to the library), "Modified Date" (when the metadata was last changed in the library) and "Published Date". I have meant to do this for a while, but my new Aura ONE triggered this actually doing it.
The option for setting the "Reading Direction" came out of a recent discussion on reading Manga on the device. When new books are processed by the device, it will get the reading direction from the book if possible. This works for sideloaded kepubs, but not other formats. With this option, you can set the reading direction to "RTL" (right-to-left) for CBR and CBZ formats and this will be respected (and I got very frustrated the other day when I open a comic and forgot that I set this - kept tapping the right side of the screen and nothing happened
). For other formats, it sets a default. I haven't really done enough experimenting to be sure how well this works for them. For kepubs, they can contain reading direction for each internal file. I think this overrides the default from the database or OPF, but if the file sets a direction, that will be used. The choices for this option are "Default", "RTL" and "LTR". I expect that using "RTL" will be the most common, but use "Default" if you need to undo the change.
The French translation of the help was done by Frenchdummy earlier in the year. My thanks for that and my apologies for not adding it a lot sooner.
As usual, if anyone sees a problem, please report it here. I've also realised while writing this that I have probably said, "I'll look into that" for some things over the last few months. I'll try to go back over the thread in the next few days to see what I've missed, but if you want to remind me, that's good to.