How can I see which SERIES a book belongs to on my Kindle?

[kapierce65]

Hello Everybody! I'm sure this has been covered before but...I had Calibre set up to show the series and series order after I had sent them to my original (1st generation) Kindle. I got the new Kindle Fire HD for Christmas and now it will not show the series info. I used the example set forth by Kovid in his post. Has the template changed? Thanks!!

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by kapierce65

Hello Everybody! I'm sure this has been covered before but...I had Calibre set up to show the series and series order after I had sent them to my original (1st generation) Kindle. I got the new Kindle Fire HD for Christmas and now it will not show the series info. I used the example set forth by Kovid in his post. Has the template changed? Thanks!!

The following may be of help.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes, currently updating metadata (and therefore plugboards) will not work when you have both filetypes in a MOBI. I suggest you stick to using AZW3 if you need to use plugboards.

[kapierce65]

So,can you tell me exactly how to do that??? LOL...i have tried several different ways and it won't work. I think I'm doing something wrong. THANKS!!!

[alanHd]

When you convert if you are converting to mobi, select Mobi Old under Mobi Output. or use AZW3, that would be my sugestion. Then the plugboard will work.

[kapierce65]

OK, I did that and tried again and the series does not show up on my HD. Could I possibly have something else wrong?? Thanks!!

[wallcraft]

The meadata plugboard I use on my original Kindle Fire is:

mobi:KINDLE_FIRE = ([{series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|| - }{title}] -> title)

This works for me because I have Preferences -> Output Options -> MOBI Output -> MOBI file type set to "old" and because I always download the Kindle 1 version to my computer (so it is always an old mobi to start with, even if I don't convert it in Calibre).

In your case, most of the commenters are suggesting you replace mobi with azw3 in the above and then convert all your ebooks to azw3. This is in part because AZW3 is a more capable format than MOBI.

If you want the same file on your Kindle 1 and Fire then use the "old MOBI" approach, but if you have a mix of Kindle 1 and Fire sourced MOBI's in your Calibre library you probably still need to do a mobi to mobi conversion of all your ebooks.

[alanHd]

I use {series:|| }{series_index:0>2s|[|] - }{title}

I have this set for any device any format

[kapierce65]

Thanks for all the help!!! I finally got it going the way I want. You guys are AWESOME!!!