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Originally Posted by Nyssa

I now have the complete Honor Harrington/Honorverse series, including 4 of the 5 anthologies. My issue is that the stories in the anthologies are spread out over the series, so I can not put them in a specific order.
For instance: One of the stories in More Than Honor goes before book 1, but another goes after book 7.

How (if at all possible) can I at least show a place holder for a specific story from a specific anthology?

Would creating an "empty book" help? If so, how would you suggest using it, so that the stories show up in the correct order?

Anothologies can be a pain . Yes you could use an empty book entry, so you could for instance give the original More Than Honor book an index of 0.1 (something below 1) and create an empty book representing the other story with index 7.1. That should put them in the right place when sorted properly.

Lastly, what do I have to add/change in tweaks, so that all of the Honorverse books & stories show up in the correct order?

Here is what I have now:

sort_columns_at_startup = (('authors', 0), ('series', 0), ('title', 0))

And attached is a pic of how my Honorverse books are arranged in Calibre. The highlighted books are the Anthologies.

There are a couple of things here. The first is that some of your books in the series have multiple authors. As your search criteria is to display by series and then by author according to your tweak, it unfortunately means it gets displayed out of sequence. Personally what I do in that situation is modify the author value so it matches all the other books in the same series. It is more important to me to see books in a series in order than to care about who the coauthor was, but you may feel differently.

The second thing is that if you want to sort by the "Series Info" column rather than "Series" to get Honorverse showing up in order then you need to change your tweak. You haven't said what the internal name of your "Series Info" column is, perhaps it is something like "series_info" or "seriesinfo". Then your tweak would become something like:

sort_columns_at_startup = (('authors', 0), ('#series_info', 0), ('title', 0))

If you don't always populate series info but do have series populated you might prefer instead to sort by one and then the other:

sort_columns_at_startup = (('authors', 0), ('#series_info', 0), ('series',0), ('title', 0))