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Right now this is not possible, no. The closest you can get is still manual steps - editing a list to get the order you want, view the list, then using for instance the Manage Series plugin to assign the books to a series in a specific order for your custom series column.
In theory I could extend the plugin to offer an option of storing (and maintaining) a series column such as you are asking. Since I can't imagine users wanting to overwrite their "normal" series column with a reading order, I think this would have to be a custom series column that it updates. Is that what you have, and if I understand you correctly this column series column shows up on the content server, right?
One of the reasons I have not offered this in the past is because of the complications that need thinking about. For instance, if you remove a book from the list, it must reorder and update the database for all the other books below on the list (as well as when you edit list order obviously). Then there are all the permutations to handle of list types and settings like if you have set your list to be cleared when sent to the device. And if you have multiple lists, each list either needs its own custom series column, or the user must be careful not to put a book on two lists (as it will flip-flop the series name/position depending on which list was touched last).
Still - as I have made no attempt to progress the concept of a catalog containing a reading list, this would at least give users another option for displaying that order, either via an additional column in the library and/or via the content server if I understand your requirement.
I'll consider it as a feature request, maybe have a dabble on the weekend...
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