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Old 10-08-2019, 01:55 AM   #1140
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Originally Posted by teija View Post
I finally figured out what was going wrong on my Kobo Aura HD after I updated to 4.18.13737...

Looks like the new firmware "prioritizes" the content on the additional storage (SD card) - or maybe now sorts "most recent" based on most recently accessed? Thus, I was seeing the PDF's and image files I had saved onto it but which should be pretty much at the end of my list if it was based on file time-stamp.

If I remove the SD card, my book list looks as it should, with my most current ones at the top.

So... I guess for now I will just take the SD card out (good thing I don't have a HUGE library)... Not sure where to contact to add it as a bug for a future revision though. And of course it will likely only affect the older devices which have external SD slots (and only those users who don't use the SD slot as their primary storage will really see the symptoms I saw).
None of the sorts on the device are based on the file timestamp. The "Date added" is when the import was done. The "Recent" uses the last time the book was read, or, if that hasn't been set, then the same timestamp as the date added.

What that means is if you put a new SD card in the device, all the books in it will be at the top of the Recent sort. If you pull the card out, and put it back in, this should give the same sort order. If you pull it out and add a few books, when you put it in, the new books should be at the top of the Recent sort.

The device does track the card. If you take the card out and put another in, it will remove details of the books on the old card and import the books from the new card. This will put them at the top of the Recent list.
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