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Regarding managing a "series". I have just gone through my entire library putting all my series in proper order...did it yesterday in fact.
It is actually quite easy and Calibre in fact does a good job putting a novel in its' proper series order if the metadata? is available and correct.
It did take me a bit of time and some errors getting started because I was used to manually managing my library as a Excel file simply for a listing of my books and I have always manually managed the series numbers.
Using Calibre I simply started with book 1 of the series in the "Edit Metadata" window and typed in the name of the series in the series drop box. Sometimes I prefer my own name for a series...ie "Daniel Leary Series" rather than "RCN"...The "number" drop box to the right of "series" should be at "1", click OK to save your work. That is the first book of the series. I select the next book and again using the "Edit Metadata" window I select the series I am using and click on the "OK" button when through. It automatically numbers it 2, 3, etc. The only hiccup is if you are missing a book in the order and add the next book...ie books 1,2,4,5, etc. Unless you change the "number" in the drop box to the correct number for that particular book it will automatically give it the next series number.
I also download the metadata, if I don't have it or I'm checking on an updated version, if necessary.
It was quite easy to do, but a bit time consuming, and now my entire library is in correct series order.
Make sure to back up your library once complete. It is nice to know if things get fubar'd you have a backup to fall back on.
As an aside I don't usually bother to respond to anyone that doesn't bother to use some sort of sentence structure, punctuation, etc. If you're too lazy or careless to bother why should I. But the replies from other members and your sometimes use of sentence structure, plus the nature of the series question made me want to take part and try to help.
Hope it helped.
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