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Originally Posted by eschwartz

Food for thought: If you have pbooks 1-9 of a series and you also have the omnibus 4-6, where on your shelf would you put the omnibus?

I would put it just after book 4 and before book 5.

Originally Posted by itimpi

The series number is stored in the database as a floating point number. Changing it in the way you asked for would require a change to the database structure and consequential code changes which make assumptions about the data type. I think this is the prime reason why this is not considered to be a viable change.

I suspected as much i.e. too much legacy associated with it. That's why an alternative would have been to at least include a second floating point number field associated to series to allow sorting - which is not quite the same as a custom column as custom column do not play a role in sorting ( though I could create a series sort column from those two... might have a play around)

Originally Posted by theducks

Changing this field would have a massive ripple effect on the code and user installed base.

You could have a custom column #series_index_ending (implied - between), but that fails if the omnibus skips 1,3,4

I think I might try this path - the jumping omnibus are not something I have come across yet.

Originally Posted by theducks

There is no single solution (dratted publishers and authors for making this difficult. Novels ONLY guys)

Indeed

There are some comicbook management programmes that handle this issue rather gracefully - however trade paperbacks are much more common so the need is probably great in that field.


Thank you all