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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
As I recall, there are a few sites that allow a story to be in multiple series. But what would FFDL do with them?
Calibre defines one standard series column. You can add custom series columns, the issue is populating them. Even if FFDL had a feature for an extra series, can one story have three series? Four?
And even if the 'second' series for a story is put in a custom series column, if the next story in the same two series list them in the opposite order, it's still not useful. You could end up with:
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Series Custom Series
A[1] A[2]
B[2] B[1]
You couldn't sort correctly on either column.
That said, I am willing to add some AO3 specific extra_valid_entries for additional series. But you'd have to use custom_columns_settings to get them into your secondary custom series column(s). (Another alternative would be to include them in tags or tags-like custom column.)
Does that sound useful to anyone? |
I just ran into this issue again (sorry I didn't comment the first time), and yes, I would find it useful to at least have the series information collected in a tag like custom column so that the information is somewhere on my computer for easier adding to custom columns. And yes, you could end up with the series in the wrong column if you did it by order, but at least you'd know the other series name and number in it even if you couldn't initially sort by it.
You know, what would work would be if you had virtual copies of the fic, one for each series it is a part of – so if you sorted by the standard series column, you'd have it show up in the right place in each series list. That's beyond the scope of FFDL I think, (Do you think that it might be something someone would be interested in putting in Calibre? I've looked through the Manage Series Plugin thread and no-one seems to have suggested the idea, but Manage Series seems to assume the custom column approach to works with multiple series. Actually, never mind, I found a thread it's in [not the most helpfully titled
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=127774 Idea for Consideration in Future Builds of Calibre]. It seems to affect too many other things to be simple.), but if I could set FFDL to make more than one copy of it, differing only in which series it has, that could work. Of course I'd need to change metadata for each separately, but I can handle that.
Speaking of extra_valid_entries. AO3's Archive Warnings tags (Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage) don't seem to come in under the standard "warnings" when I have it set up to appear on the title page. Are they supposed to? If not, would you mind adding an AO3 specific extra_valid_entry for it? No rush, I know you're tight for time.