How To Change Appearance of Calibre

HisLittleOne · 12-09-2014, 08:17 PM

I have two questions that I would like to ask, and I have searched in all the Preferences and cannot find the answer.

1. How do I keep the books appearing with the cover view when Calibre starts? It used to be that way until I reinstalled Calibre. Now it always starts up in a list view and I have to click on the little icon of books on the bottom right of the screen to see the books' covers. How do I keep that as a default view?

2. Is there any way to set Calibre to show the books from the most recently added books instead of alphabetical in the main window?

Thanks for your help

eschwartz · 12-09-2014, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by HisLittleOne

1. How do I keep the books appearing with the cover view when Calibre starts? It used to be that way until I reinstalled Calibre. Now it always starts up in a list view and I have to click on the little icon of books on the bottom right of the screen to see the books' covers. How do I keep that as a default view?

calibre should always open up with your previous settings.

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Originally Posted by HisLittleOne

2. Is there any way to set Calibre to show the books from the most recently added books instead of alphabetical in the main window?

Preferences ==> Advanced ==> Tweaks

Set the value of the tweak "Specify columns to sort the booklist by on" to None, and it should use the last sort value. You an override this with a list of values to sort by. I use:

Code:

[('authors', 0), ('series', 0), ('#subseries', 0), ('title', 0)]

You want to use:

Code:

[('date', 1)]

theducks · 12-09-2014, 10:32 PM

Calibre normally saves the 'state' of the view in the configuration files.

Things that can confuse this, is launching 2 instances: w32 and w64 as both share the config. Last one closed is the 'state' you will see

All other versions only allow 1 instance to be launched. (Calibre portable has its own config)

Other things that may mess with the save:
Your config folder is in/connected to the cloud. Cloud connected/shadowed folders need to be stopped while calibre is running

BetterRed · 12-10-2014, 12:05 AM

@HisLittleOne - as well as the suggestions made by theducks, this optional plug-in ==>> [GUI Plugin] View Manager can be used to control start up sort order, columns shown, their sequence and widths. Its very useful if you have several libraries with differing needs - eg for journals, books and comics libraries.

It can also save multiple views per library.

BR

12-09-2014, 08:17 PM	#1
HisLittleOne Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 8974 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: iPad Mini w/retina	How To Change Appearance of Calibre I have two questions that I would like to ask, and I have searched in all the Preferences and cannot find the answer. 1. How do I keep the books appearing with the cover view when Calibre starts? It used to be that way until I reinstalled Calibre. Now it always starts up in a list view and I have to click on the little icon of books on the bottom right of the screen to see the books' covers. How do I keep that as a default view? 2. Is there any way to set Calibre to show the books from the most recently added books instead of alphabetical in the main window? Thanks for your help

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,872 Karma: 55267620 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Calibre normally saves the 'state' of the view in the configuration files. Things that can confuse this, is launching 2 instances: w32 and w64 as both share the config. Last one closed is the 'state' you will see All other versions only allow 1 instance to be launched. (Calibre portable has its own config) Other things that may mess with the save: Your config folder is in/connected to the cloud. Cloud connected/shadowed folders need to be stopped while calibre is running

12-10-2014, 12:05 AM	#4
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,616 Karma: 26960534 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@HisLittleOne - as well as the suggestions made by theducks, this optional plug-in ==>> [GUI Plugin] View Manager can be used to control start up sort order, columns shown, their sequence and widths. Its very useful if you have several libraries with differing needs - eg for journals, books and comics libraries. It can also save multiple views per library. BR

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