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Originally Posted by bethohio3
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?
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In this case, the series would be Belgariad -- the main universe series, and it would encompass all books, so Belgariad 1-5 would still be Belgariad 1-5. Malloreon comes later, so it is series: Belgariad 6-10 and subseries: Malloreon 1-5. Belgarath the Sorcerer would be book 11 of Belgariad, and Polgara the Sorceress would be book 12. (Or perhaps Belgarath is book 0, a prequel, and Polgara book 11? When I read the series, I can decide which one fits better.
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Similarly, by the Drizzt books, they are all The Legend of Drizzt, though some are in subseries like Neverwinter Saga, Transitions, Sellswords, etc. Someday I may compile a main series listing of all Forgotten Realms books by chronology, and switch to that -- but I doubt it. Many of them happen concurrently, involve unconnected storylines entirely, and/or overlap in horrifyingly complex ways, so I don't know how much meaning it would give me.
Star wars has its own main Star Wars series, and each so-called "series" I consider a subseries, though that hasn't actually received its sorting yet...
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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.
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Omnibuses get titled "series_name, Books a-b" and do not get a series or subseries. The title is the series (and subseries) already, so why duplicate it?
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Originally Posted by cvlowe
New problem, book series with different authors are now scattered randomly... Well, not random but by the different authors. Any suggestions?
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Sort by series, author, title?
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Originally Posted by cvlowe
I worked around the problem by adding the series creator as the first author in the Author sort field. Now they sort correctly.
Is there a way to re-sort the library by the initial conditions without closing and re-opening the program?
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Click on the column headings to sort by them. Or switch between libraries.