Sort by series?

[chongjasmine]

Is there a way to sort by series in kindle? And see the series numbers?

[Sirtel]

Only with the books bought and downloaded from Amazon, not sideloaded books. If this feature is important to you, get something else, not a Kindle. Kobo and Pocketbook both support series for sideloaded books.

[JSWolf]

and the series may not always be correct. If sorting by series is something that's important, get a Kobo.

[Quoth]

What Sirtel and JSWolf say. Series on a Kindle (unless it's jailbroken and using something else as a reader) comes from Amazon, if there at all and often wrong.
The only fudge is to have books only sideloaded and the metadata (not name) have <series-name><#number><actual-title> as the title and then it will sort. (without the < >). If there are more than 9 books then 01, 02 etc...

Get a Kobo if Collections and Series is important.

[chongjasmine]

Amazon just lost a customer today. Series is important to me, as I have lots of them. I am getting a meebook m6.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by chongjasmine

Amazon just lost a customer today. Series is important to me, as I have lots of them. I am getting a meebook m6.

The meebook m6 might not support series and even if it does, there's no software to do so with calibre. So again, it's not going to work for you.

A Kobo Libra 2 will work with series and collections from calibre.

[nabsltd]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Only with the books bought and downloaded from Amazon, not sideloaded books.

Actually, as long as it's in "My Content and Devices", you can sideload a book that has the matching "mobi-asin" in the OPF metadata, and it will work.

This allows you to download a book from Amazon, fix the CSS, and then sideload it and still have it appear as if it was downloaded straight to the Kindle. You can also borrow a book from a library using Amazon as the provider for the loan, and sideload the same book you purchased elsewhere (again, with the right metadata), and have it appear as if it was downloaded directly. As long as you never delete the loan from "My Content...", it will work, even after you have returned the loan.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by nabsltd

Actually, as long as it's in "My Content and Devices", you can sideload a book that has the matching "mobi-asin" in the OPF metadata, and it will work.

This allows you to download a book from Amazon, fix the CSS, and then sideload it and still have it appear as if it was downloaded straight to the Kindle. You can also borrow a book from a library using Amazon as the provider for the loan, and sideload the same book you purchased elsewhere (again, with the right metadata), and have it appear as if it was downloaded directly. As long as you never delete the loan from "My Content...", it will work, even after you have returned the loan.

But it's not so simple with books purchased elsewhere than Amazon. Kindles work best with Amazon purchases/loans; not so well with books obtained elsewhere. More than a half of my ebooks are not Amazon purchases. And some of them (Estonian books) have never been listed on Amazon and so it wouldn't be possible to add a mobi-asin to them.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by nabsltd

Actually, as long as it's in "My Content and Devices", you can sideload a book that has the matching "mobi-asin" in the OPF metadata, and it will work.

Only sometimes because Amazon often has wrong or no "Series" info.
If you have widely different generations of Kindle on same account it also messes up Collections.
Most of my ebooks are PD and few of those are on Amazon. Only maybe 40 ebooks bought elsewhere that might have ASINs. And a bother to find them.
Out of 6300 books approx maybe 400 are bought from Amazon.
The Amazon eco-system is a bit too locked down and they generally won't fix mistakes.

Oh, and for years we have only ever sideloaded books bought from Amazon. Return too much stuff (not ebooks) and they will also kill your Kindle content and ability to publish on Amazon using KDP.