One additional thing that
might help if anyone is using iTunes to sync their books (and might possibly be useful for calibre's own iPad driver?):
After you have converted and edited meta information within calibre, and then added those books to iTunes, it is possible to manually set the "Genre" tag within iTunes (
Genre=
Series Name) to create a separate/standalone Category for that series. Calibre does not appear to be aware of the iTunes-added "Genre" tag... which means if you have a few hundred
Star Trek novels, and used calibre to tag them as "Science Fiction," then used iTunes to tag them as "Star Trek," calibre will still see them as "Science Fiction," and iTunes will see them as "Star Trek."
Assuming iBooks allows you to sync everything within a specific genre of books, as it does for music, you could then sync an entire series simply by selecting the appropriate category, and if "Grouping" and "Sort Name" then function as anticipated, the entire series should be in the proper sequence.
Oh, how I wish I had an iPad to test these assumptions!
- M.