Exporting Books in a Series

[cybmole]

sell Kindle, buy Sony - job done.

[GeckoFriend]

Originally Posted by itimpi

........... On the Sony devices it IS possible to get collections in series order when loading the books via Calibre and I make heavy use of this capbility......

Can you explain how to do this in fairly simple terms please?

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by GeckoFriend

Can you explain how to do this in fairly simple terms please?

1. connect Sony to PC.
2, send books from calibre to Sony
3. Er - That's It! - books appear in series order.

NB
I have "metamanagement" set to auto in send books preferences.
I have the series column populated in calibre.

[GeckoFriend]

Originally Posted by cybmole

1. connect Sony to PC.
2, send books from calibre to Sony
3. Er - That's It! - books appear in series order.

NB
I have "metamanagement" set to auto in send books preferences.
I have the series column populated in calibre.

Thanks for the reply; I've done all that and the books are shown properly as a series, but NOT in series order. It's the series order I can't seem to grasp.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by GeckoFriend

Thanks for the reply; I've done all that and the books are shown properly as a series, but NOT in series order. It's the series order I can't seem to grasp.

IIRC, the T1 has several different sort orders that can be displayed, one of which is "Added order" (or something like that). Display your series collections using that order and it will be displayed by series index.

[cybmole]

mine are always shown in series order. I use a PRS650 not a T1. because mine has "never broke" I can't tell you what to fix, but

there'll be a setting somewhere, that someone will know how to tweak to fix things for you - I'm sure

[GeckoFriend]

Originally Posted by chaley

IIRC, the T1 has several different sort orders that can be displayed, one of which is "Added order" (or something like that). Display your series collections using that order and it will be displayed by series index.

Thank you! Sorting on Added Order is the key. To me that's not a very intuitive description of how that sorts.

[speakingtohe]

There is a pretty detailed description of using Jackie_W plugboard to not only sort your books but to display series info on T1

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ght=mikeloftus

and

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=device_db

[GeckoFriend]

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

There is a pretty detailed description of using Jackie_W plugboard to not only sort your books but to display series info on T1

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ght=mikeloftus

and

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=device_db

Thanks for that information. I'll need to read it a few more times to grasp the concepts and how to apply them.

[Pinecone]

Originally Posted by GeckoFriend

Thank you! Sorting on Added Order is the key. To me that's not a very intuitive description of how that sorts.

That is because Sony doesn't actually understand sorting a series by a series number. So Calibre fakes it by adding them in the correct order (or setting the added order metadata) so the Sony sort by Added Order does what we want it to do.