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Old 01-20-2026, 05:54 PM   #522
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Subsorting - For example, group by authors and sort by rating, easy way to see books by authors in order of rating.
Grouping could have been done with the addition of one check box in Sort By :

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Which would have obviated the need for the Group by button. A toggle to Show/Hide dividers action could have been added to Sort by's action menu that was only enabled in Bookshelf view.

Re Sort by — I find the order of items in the Sort by drop down menu rather odd:

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Two action items (Re-apply…, Reverse…), then the user defined saved sorts (Default, StatWords), then two more action items (Select…, Sort on…), then a list of sortable Header names with no separation of built-in and custom columns, nor any visual indicator.

Now that custom columns can have the same Header names as built-in columns some way of distinguishing between them is needed.

Group by segregates built-in and custom column Header names, but without any visual marker - I suggest a line between them.

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Oh, and put the built-in columns in alpha order

BR

Last edited by BetterRed; 01-20-2026 at 07:06 PM. Reason: add last line
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