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Originally Posted by davidfor
You were not being clear about what you wanted. And I initially interpreted it in a different way. When looking at the books for an author, the list has a cover view. That is what I thought you were talking about.
But, you were talking about the Author list.
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It shouldn't be confusing. Really, why is there a sort by author and an author tab? The two should be combined and easily could be without losing what either of those views currently offer.
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That doesn't have any sort of cover or image viewing...
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But it could be done by using the same UI as the Books tab to let the user sort by covers or list view. I think the cover/list view should be consistent across all tabs in My Books. Even if you hate it, it wouldn't impact you.
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And, if you did do a "cover" view, there is no guarantee that the cover displayed would actually show the authors name in detail enough to know who it is.
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That says more about your opinion of Kobo's design team than anything else.
As you can see in my screenshot, each item on the Nook clearly lists the author's name.
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And the way that 5 books is done differently than 3 books and 2 books is frustrating me. The 2 and 3 books are sort of consistent. But why are the lower books in the 5 book stack so much shorter than the front? Is it that way all the time or is it a fluke that those books actually have shorter covers?
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The height difference comes from the dimensions of the covers. Not anything done by the software. The stack of five are all self published books by that author, so I takes the covers I gets. And as you can see in the attachment, I have the same non-matching cover height issue on the Kobo. So yuk there too, I guess.
I don't expect Kobo to completely ape the look of the Nook. They could use the same shadow effect already used in series (though really, if it is just one book, get rid of the shadow).
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And for the record, comparing an author list with a list of books sorted by author confused me. The lists are different and show very different information.
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What are the use cases for an author list (with the number of books by each author) vs. a list of books sorted by author?
Anyway, on the Nook, stacking can be turned on and off. If the software were updated and you had the books stacked and list view on the author tab, you would have what you have now. If stacking were turned off and you used cover view, you would have what is already shown in My Books - Sort By: Author.