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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Sort order on a kindle is not influenced by calibre, all calibre does is copy and delete actual book files and cover thumbnails. Nothing else is exposed over the USB connection on a Kindle
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I'm not talking about the sort order on the Kindle, but the sort order of the Kindle titles in calibre. True, the sorting on the Kindle device is not affected at all. After being disconnected, the books on the Kindle remain sorted as they were before (by 'recent')
To be clear, the issue is that after selecting a few titles in the Calibre display of the Kindle books, and then "removing" those books, the sort order of the remaining books is reversed and your place in the list is lost. It's like the deck gets reshuffled.
IMO that should not happen. In any file manager - and I consider the Calibre interface to function as a file manager - the sort order is never affected by deleting a selected few items from the middle of a listing. If the list is sorted by title A-Z and your cursor is at the last selected item, then after you delete the selected items the list is refreshed to take into account the newly deleted items - but the sort order remains unchanged (A-Z) and the cursor is now at the location next to the last selected item (which is now deleted).
This enables you to work through a listing in an orderly fashion, making changes/edits/deletions as you go, without the listing getting scrambled every time you make a change.
This scrambling/reversing doesn't happen if you perform these same functions on the local Calibre 'library'. It only happened with the display of the connected Kindle device. And whatever happened in the Calibre display, the internal sorting on the device itself was not affected after the device was ejected.
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