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The two major nestable series I have are Dragon Lance and Forgotten Realms. I use calibre's default series to list the realm and created a subseries column for the individual books. I use decimals to denote subseries within a subseries. Sorting doesn't seem to be a problem although the use of a column called Realm sounds attractive. In my case, I probably wouldn't do so because I have so many little used columns, I have to let some go off screen in order to be able to use the the ones I use frequently.
I use anthology strictly for books that have more than one story. Sorting stories within anthologies by series and/or author is problematic. The easiest way I can think of would be to make empty books for each story but the empty books can not be directly linked to the anthology and, per another thread, it's not likely it ever will be possible to do so. The only other thing I can think of is to break the anthologies down into separate books (one story per book) while also keeping the original anthology intact. While it would work, it defeats one of the purposes of calibre (avoiding having to have duplicate books for sorting purposes, as would be required if using a folder/filename hierarchy) and would be a massive project I do not have time for right now.
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