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These are some remarks on organizing the shelf settings in a competent manner. All shelves that aren't specifically mentioned use the shelf settings indicated in the first item.

Shelves: I display Author, Cover, Date Pub., Date Read, Rating, and Title by default. Then it's sorted by 30 Per Page, Author ascending.

All/Read: Same as normal but sorted by Date Read descending. The only reason I browse this bookshelf is to see the last books I read anyways, so that sort order is my preferred.

Currently-Reading, Dropped, On-Hold: Same as normal but with Date Started instead of Date Read. For obvious reasons.

To-Read: Same as normal but without Date Read and Rating. For obvious reasons. I don't use a position order in the To-Read section because that's impossible to manage for 10-20+ items. When looking for something to read, I just browse through the whole "To-Read" shelf, and various internet sites, anyways.

Favorites: I include Position, omit Ratings. I don't need Ratings because all my favorites are 5s, and I include Positions to sort my favorites accordingly so that it's whatever order I want on my profile page. The sort order for this shelf is Position ascending, for obvious reasons.

As a note on the # of items Per Page, infinite scroll is obnoxious because it shows a little blurb at the bottom of the page while scrolling. 30 Per Page makes up for this.

Now of course, to use the other various columns, I just display and sort by them accordingly. For instance, if I want to see all the notes I wrote down, I display the Reviews column, then sort by that. But I don't need to see that all the time, so it's not part of the defaults.