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This will be my last go 'round with you on this.

I do think you are misunderstanding what I am saying. I'll put it down to lack of clarity in my writing.

Again, when I say 'stacking' I don't mean that there should be something that looks identical to how the Nook shows it. I don't care about the misaligned covers, which does seem to overly bother you.

As I mentioned already, Kobo could use the same UI that is already being used for series. Just show the cover of a book with the lines behind it to indicate there is more than one. The author's name would be underneath the 'stack' with a number in one of the corners on the cover thumbnail to indicate how many books by that author are currently on the device. If there is only one book by that author on the device, don't show the lines. Simple. (I believe books are sorted alphabetically by author and then title on both Nook and Kobo already, so the cover shown would be the first alphabetical title).

In fact, if they did that they could also improve the series tab, by displaying the series name underneath the stack and use a number in the corner to tell you how many books in that series are currently on your device. The current series cover view reminds me of your point about being worried about not seeing the author's name. Why isn't series name displayed on the Series tab in cover view?

Originally Posted by davidfor

You screenshot clearly shows that you lose information when you combine the lists. One show all books sorted by author. The other shows all authors with some hints that there might be more than one book. I want to see both because of how I look for books.

Look at the screenshots I attached.

Now remember, there are two things I am asking for:

1. Cover/List view option on all four tabs
2. The option to stack books by the same author when using cover view in the Authors tab

Attachment 1 shows List view for authors in both Nook and Kobo. They are about the same. (I question Nook listing a title for each author, plus additional books instead of only showing a number, but that is neither here nor there).

Attachment 2 shows cover view for authors with stacking turned off. Again, it is about the same as Kobo's Sort by: Author

Attachment 3 shows cover view with books stacked by author. If Kobo implemented it, again, they could use the same UI elements used in Series cover view (though I wish they would make that look a little better too).

No information is lost and if you don't like one view there are options.

My point is that Kobo could do all three of these in the Author tab. Then you wouldn't need Sort by: Author

A "series cover" could be good, but, how to define it would be the problem.

They already do that.

No, that says something about the design of the covers you are seeing. In my library, I have plenty of books where the authors name is not easily read when the small cover images are generated. On the full screen cover it is usually OK, but, on grayscaled, thumbail sized covers, the author isn't always obvious or readable.

As mentioned, show the author's name below the cover stack. Add a number to the thumbnail to show the total number of books. As it is already done on the Nook.

My "yuk" was more about how the "stacks" are misaligned. No one actually stacks books like that. And a lot of people who saw a misaligned stack like that would straighten it.

Nobody keeps a garbage can on their desktop either. But when translating things to the digital world, sometime tweaks are made to make things easier to use. I like the way the Nook does the stack because it uses portions of the cover instead of generic lines. But that's not the hill I'm looking to die on. I don't expect Kobo to wholesale swipe the look of the Nook stacks. Use the UI already used on series cover view.