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Originally Posted by foice
"missing" yes, willing to go back entirely ... no.
I do not see the point of making these arguments. E-books are more flexible, it's a fact. Now, precisely because they are more flexible in software, I think it is reasonable to ask a _software_ feature about their sorting and organization.
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I see little to no value in being able to display ebook covers in a random order. I always tried to keep my physical books sorted by author/series/title (I had about 1,800 hardcovers and 5,000 paperbacks). For me, calibre's current display options are more than acceptable. Given that my physical library organization always had the spine facing out, the information visible was pretty much what I see in the main library view in calibre though organized horizontally rather than vertically.
With 14,900 ebooks in my main calibre library, I need to be able to sort and search to keep track of what I already own. Even with my XYL's library of ~2500 books, I find that quite often that an ebook she expresses interest in was already obtained a few years back since so many free/0.99 ebook offers are recycled pretty regularly when the author produces a new ebook in a series.
Aside from anything else, I suspect that you would have to fork calibre and create your own code to display books in a random order and with a spine view. From Kovid Goyal's previous posts, he has little interest or time to work on such requests. Perhaps you could add a little windows with an image of a night table with your current reads and soon to be reads stacked on it?