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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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Providing you don't change the Date column, then if you sort the book list by Date you'll get much the same result as sorting it by book-id.
As well as gaps caused by book removals and merges, changes to book title and/or authors have resulted in a book being given a new id. So Book #38 might become Book # 1793, but the Date (added to library) didn't change. I'm unsure whether that can still happen, IIRC it was tied up with the vagaries of one of the file systems calibre supports.
BR
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But if the book you add has already been entered in Calibre at some time in the past, and comes with a "metadata.opf" (which conveniently contains the info such as: summaries, tags, publishers, etc.) it also brings with it, the Date Added to library,
from the previous calibre library.
So unless you strip out the "metadata.opf" files your date added info is not always correct.