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Originally Posted by Woodssi
So, in short, NO WAY to have the Titles showing in an order that covers all my requirements.... bleeuucchhhhh!
Back to real paper, methinks!
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You had the "best" answer back in post #3 of this thread, with the original metadata template that you then proceeded to want to change. Had you left it unchanged, it would have given you books in the correct series order on your Kindle.
However by trying to put title before the series name, you are not giving the Kindle any chance of figuring out how to sort by series. The Kindle has no concept of "series" - it does however have a concept of "title" (for alphabetical sorts) and published date (which by a quirk in how the Kindle sorts when you choose by Author displays in reverse order).
As theducks has said, when it comes to reading a series in order, the actual title of the individual book is completely irrelevant, so why insist on trying to display it "first"? Just do what the rest of us do of using that original metadata template (or small variant thereof).
Now if you absolutely insist that your titles must be named in a particular way on the Kindle that does not have the series first, then your only choice is to "fiddle" the published date in Calibre, before you send the books. Personally I do both. I prefix with series, but I sort by author (displays reversed publish date order). But I am very careful with my metadata editing in Calibre, and make sure I "correct" any published dates from metadata downloading that are obviously incorrect.
The reason why I do the "sort by author" trick on the Kindle is it means that for books that are not in a series I can see to the publication order so as to read them in the order the author wrote them as though they were a series. Being "reversed" doesn't bother me, it just means I page through to the end of that author collection to get to the first book to read. And in the odd circumstance where I have missed correcting a published date, at least I still have the series name/number obviously prefixed so as to spot it.
Less head banging, more reading I say...
