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I do the same thing in most cases. I also have a PRS-650 (and my wife a PRS-600).
What I did was create a custom series like column for Author. In that, I put all the books by that author in the order I want them on the Reader. So if the author has no series, I put them in published date order. If the author does have series, I put each series in order.
And then, in the device plug in, I removed the create a collection by the exisiting Author field (which will put the books under the name in alphabetical order) and added to create a collection based on my custom column.
I also use the Series Column to create a collection for each series. You could also just put them in published date order under the custom Author column and uses the Series column to group by series.
So this provides several possible ways books can be ordered. And if an author has books in series and some books that are not, I can group the series books and separately group the non-series in published order.
Collection - Author A
Series 1 Book 1
Series 1 Book 2
....
Series 2 Book 1
Series 2 Book 2
Or I could do Author A as:
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Collection - Author B
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Then I also get:
Collection - Series 1
Book 1
Book 2
Coelction - Series 2
Book 1
Book 2
And remember, collections are metadata, having the same book show up in multiple colelctions, just means that it pointed to from those collections, there is still only one copy of the book in Calibre or on your Reader.
Harder to describe than to do.
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