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hroberts89436 · 02-14-2014, 01:35 PM

Ok Here is what I am working on and hopefully someone can give me a simple way to make these changes.

I have over 8,000 books in Calibre. Most of them are parts of series. For instance. I have all of the Star Wars books. So trying to make changes to the Series layout so that they are in order. I have labeled them as such:
Star Wars 2.1: Darth Plagueis [1-??] (however many there are)
Star Wars 2.2: Legacy of the Jedi [1-??]
...

My Issue has come when I get to Star Wars 1.10: The Phantom Menace. This wants to list below 2.1 and before 2.2, so I figured I needed to go back in and add a 0 to the front of 2.1 and 2.2 to make it 2.01, and 2.02 so they list in order. This seems to work. However there are sometimes 15 or more books per series. Is there a way to edit the DB directly or somewhere else where I can make one change to the Series and all items with that series name changes to show the correction. And I have also noticed that I now need to add a 0 infront of 2.01 and 2.02 to make it 02.01, and 02.02 in order for the series to be in proper order.

Some of my other programs have each series listed within a separate DB where you can edit it there and make 1 change that affects the entire series, and not sure if that capability is within Calibre.

02-14-2014, 01:35 PM	#1
hroberts89436 Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: nook	Series Management Help Ok Here is what I am working on and hopefully someone can give me a simple way to make these changes. I have over 8,000 books in Calibre. Most of them are parts of series. For instance. I have all of the Star Wars books. So trying to make changes to the Series layout so that they are in order. I have labeled them as such: Star Wars 2.1: Darth Plagueis [1-??] (however many there are) Star Wars 2.2: Legacy of the Jedi [1-??] ... My Issue has come when I get to Star Wars 1.10: The Phantom Menace. This wants to list below 2.1 and before 2.2, so I figured I needed to go back in and add a 0 to the front of 2.1 and 2.2 to make it 2.01, and 2.02 so they list in order. This seems to work. However there are sometimes 15 or more books per series. Is there a way to edit the DB directly or somewhere else where I can make one change to the Series and all items with that series name changes to show the correction. And I have also noticed that I now need to add a 0 infront of 2.01 and 2.02 to make it 02.01, and 02.02 in order for the series to be in proper order. Some of my other programs have each series listed within a separate DB where you can edit it there and make 1 change that affects the entire series, and not sure if that capability is within Calibre.