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Originally Posted by transmitthis
Additional Suggestion
Series - Have set Series entries for certain book types (or certain entrys have no number prefix)
Reason: When sorting through books you most likely have one of these;
A Novel
A Collection
An Omnibus
A Book in a Series
A Short Story (Novella, Chapterbook, Short Story, etc)
Series Books work fine, but what if you want to label your novels, as "Novels, so as not to get them mixed up with you short stories, and for easy reference?
It would be a real neat solution if the Series column could have some set titles, that have no Number associated. If this is possible in the scope of the program.
Just entering Novel or Collection yourself results in the books being incremented, and selecting a group of them results in them all having a [1]
Other way is to have another custom column. too many of those will melt your brain
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Just my opinion, of course, but there are already so many ways of doing this (not all of which involve custom columns) and
to me this would seem the least intuitive.
For ex, I use genres to classify "special" books:
Fiction-Anthologies & Collections
Fiction-Horror & Fantasy Anthologies (because there are enough in my collection to warrant separating them from all other anthologies)
Short Fic-Horror
... and so on.
The idea of the series column being anything other than series makes me a little twitchy. Plus, we have a series management plugin, and series are available to be used for collections management on Sony and some Kindles (with Kindle Collections plugin). I'm not in favor of anything that would complicate or potentially break the things we already do with the series column in order to make use of the new functionality.
Metadata plugboards are another example - either the devs would have to code it so that the plugboards ignore those particular designations, or it would break the way many people use the plugboards.
I promise you that custom columns will not melt your brain. Honest.
I love that you like calibre enough to want to make it better, but don't mess with my Series.
