The NLS dtbm doesn sort books in alphabetical order. Is there a way to force it to sort books in any logical order?
The order in which books are read by the NLS dtbm depends on whether they are digital talking books in DAISY or ANSI/NISO/NLS format or audio files in mp3 or wav format. Talking books such as those from the NLS are ordered by the Inode number (a Linux file system concept) [from Lloyd Rasmussen 3/2010 email]. From About.com, “the inode number is a unique number associated with each filename. This number is used to look up an entry in the inode table which gives information on the type, size, and location of the file and the userID of the owner of the file.” The practical effect of this sort is that talking books are read in the order they are copied to the player’s media. If a user wants to control the order, they should copy the books one at a time to their cartridge or flash drive in the order desired. However, they should be aware that as books are deleted and new ones copied to the drive, the reading sort order may change. This is thought to occur because the inode number apparently
