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Originally Posted by lanark
Hi, I'm pretty new to Calibre, and one thing I've began to do is migrating my e-magazines collection. I'm aware that Calibre is mainly orientated to books, with authors, etc. I've used the 'author' field for the magazine name and I'm thinking of hijack other fields also for magazine issue, subject, etc.
In doing so, I've been thinking that a kind of "magazine mode" would be cool.
Is that possible, conceivable or even useful for any other person than me?
Thanks!
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You describe one facet of the compiled-works problem. The same thing pops up with edited books, omnibus editions, conference proceedings, and the like. To correctly (for some definition of correct) handle these cases, one needs hierarchical books (books within books).
There is no clean way in calibre to deal with this. The closest I have seen is to create a 'book' for the magazine, putting the volume and issue into the series. Then create a 'book' for each article, using the same series w/volume+issue, but using the page number as the series index. Only the outermost book (the one without the series index) has content.
Clearly this is not optimal. It does permit searching for articles by author, title, magazine, issue, and what-have-you, but at the cost of having a large number of empty books.