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Old 03-26-2025, 03:27 AM   #202
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In theory this should be possible, but I don't think it would be a great solution. Looking at the code it would be a non-trivial change to make it work that way, because the current code actually uses the series information on the device for sorting. Which makes me wonder now what the point of this feature was in the first place, since you can just sort a series in the dedicated series tab.

So rewriting this feature to help with a specific feature of another plugin seems non-ideal to me, and also introduces potential issues. For example, you would have to manually run this feature when connecting a device after every change in the reading list to avoid coordination issues with the other plugin, and there is a risk of some configuration getting out of sync. It would be better if the Reading List plugin itself took care of this.

Thinking about it a bit more, I think the best solution would actually be to change the collections management in the Kobo driver to automatically sort a collection if the source of that collection is a series column (maybe toggled with an option). Then it would work automatically for any custom series column, not just the Reading List one. That would also be a non-trivial change though.
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