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My input here as an ocd series order romance reader, who normally splits most multi-books into individuals, for you guessed it series order.
1: a permanent column hidden by default for editor, would come right after author (if possible? linked to the Editor field for metadata download)
2: I do the reverse of this now, each split book utilizes a custom column "Secondary Title" to hold the anthology title, this could work for editor as well, but I could see a similar to 1 feature for this as well although I believe metadata integration would be impossible
3: single author collections as part of series get split and treated like 2, not part of a series get the tag collection so I know it's not a single book
Goodreads has also taken to splitting anthologies into single books as so many at least romance writers re-release as individuals now with full metadata, covers and the previously released disclaimer in the comments.
I agree keeping them whole and trying to fit all that various metadata into Calibre would be beyond it's scope, especially when you consider the abysmal web based metadata for download when it comes to most multi-author works, you'd never get all the fields filled properly except by hand and thats the beauty of custom columns.
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