I'm taking people's advice and taking all of the auto-downloaded title extras out of the titles, and I'm cleaning up the titles and the publishers. I hadn't added any information to the titles--but downloading books and metadata tended to add all sorts of inconsistent parenthetical stuff.
Thanks to
fidvo for pointing me to ISFDB.org. I haven't started using the plugin, but it's really helping me update the series information!
Since I'm using Marvin, it does a great job of making the metadata available and I can see the series information easily on my iPad and iPhone.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That is exactly why I would use #subseries="Belgariad [6]" series="Mallorean [1]".
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eschwartz, could you please share a bit more about how you use your subseries column? It could just be this example that threw me.
Would the subseries go from 1 to 10 (plus Polgara, etc.) and then series be Belgariad 1-5 and Mallorean 1-5, and then what for the additional ones?
Similarly, what do people generally do with omnibus editions which have multiple books in them that belong to a series?
I'm not sure yet how complicated I'm going to get with the series metadata. I have a lot to clean up. I have about 600 books--and most of the metadata is messed up.
Okay--yet another question. I have a lot of gutenburg books because I like the classics. Do you put Gutenburg for the publisher? I've learned that the metadata has to be picked up carefully--and I've started grabbing some of the descriptions from Wikipedia.
Thanks for everyone's help--this is really informative and will help me get things in order!