[davidfor]

Originally Posted by lealla

Sorry - that was a very vague thing to say!
What I meant was, I like how it sorts on calibre, which is firstly by author, and secondarily by series.

So, Douglas Adams comes before Bill Bryson, and their books are sorted by series alphabetically, with standalond books fitting in alphabetically into place between the series.

The sorting in calibre sorting is dynamic. When you change the sort, the previous sort is used as the secondary sort. So, if you sort by title, then change to author, you will have the books sorted by title within author. If you then sort by the modified column, it will use the modified ate as the primary sort, then by author within that, and title within that. And so on. There is a tweak to set the number of sort levels which defaults to five.

At the moment, on the Kobo, my series option sorts all the books by title, and then by series. So, when I have say, a collection for fantasy, it sorts all the books by the series title / book title, and all the authors are mixed together.

However, this is not a problem, just a preference issue on how it sorts.

And that is exactly how I would expect the sort to work unless a mechanism like that used by calibre exists.