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HappyChris · 05-18-2019, 06:38 AM

1.
When I look at the Library/Home screen of my PW3 running 5.11.1 1, I see some disquieting things: each collection has an item count and each one is seemingly wrong.

Collection 'Amazon' - which holds redundant PW manuals - counts 5 items and displays 6. When showing only those Downloaded, it displays 3 and says that there are '5 more items in the Cloud'. No Filter is operating.

Collection 'Dhamma' says 18 items in All but only shows 6. Downloaded shows 5 and says 3 more are in the Cloud. The item list, it says, has 3 pages but two of them are blank!

This pattern of misleading total numbers appears with nearly all Collections. I grasp that this could be a result of counting hidden files eg cover pics, but, if so, it looks like truly shoddy programming.

It's this an old issue that folk have given up on or maybe a too-rare bug that hasn't been noticed before?

2.
I notice that the device's and the different apps' Cloud/All lists are not the same but books not shown on one reader can be accessed by using the Search function. Is this found to be a useful feature of the Kindle environment?

3.
It's there any way of seeing my Kindle books listed clearly that is not subject to the smoothing-over that the Library display does to them? I see multiple copies of one or two books each with a different reading percentage but am fearful of just dumping all but one of them without knowing their origin and thus different version numbers.

05-18-2019, 06:38 AM	#1
HappyChris Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 7526 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Bristol, UK Device: Nexus 10 (2 of them), Nexus 5, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, iMac	Item counts, page counts and a search capability 1. When I look at the Library/Home screen of my PW3 running 5.11.1 1, I see some disquieting things: each collection has an item count and each one is seemingly wrong. Collection 'Amazon' - which holds redundant PW manuals - counts 5 items and displays 6. When showing only those Downloaded, it displays 3 and says that there are '5 more items in the Cloud'. No Filter is operating. Collection 'Dhamma' says 18 items in All but only shows 6. Downloaded shows 5 and says 3 more are in the Cloud. The item list, it says, has 3 pages but two of them are blank! This pattern of misleading total numbers appears with nearly all Collections. I grasp that this could be a result of counting hidden files eg cover pics, but, if so, it looks like truly shoddy programming. It's this an old issue that folk have given up on or maybe a too-rare bug that hasn't been noticed before? 2. I notice that the device's and the different apps' Cloud/All lists are not the same but books not shown on one reader can be accessed by using the Search function. Is this found to be a useful feature of the Kindle environment? 3. It's there any way of seeing my Kindle books listed clearly that is not subject to the smoothing-over that the Library display does to them? I see multiple copies of one or two books each with a different reading percentage but am fearful of just dumping all but one of them without knowing their origin and thus different version numbers.