[kiwidude]

@Larla - the reason I steered you away from the plugin idea is it is just a really "bad" idea to keep mixing your title and series information in the title field in calibre. There are too many functions in calibre (and other plugins you may want to use at some point) which expect a title to be just a title. Metadata downloading is just one example, but a perfectly good one. I am pretty confident none of the authors of the various metadata download plugins are going to rewrite them to cater for your particular scenario - well certainly speaking for myself as the author of quite a number of them.

If you look closer at that metadata plugboard thread it has examples of using automatically computed custom columns to shorten the series name. So once you have cleaned up your library, you wouldn't have to manually populate the column for sending to your device.