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Originally Posted by changeling
Just found this old thread as I was looking for something similar. For me, the best option would be a multivalued series field (and, yes I know that would imply a lot of work, for a feature not so many people need, and that's probably why it will never be done)
Note that there are many cases where two series overlap without one being a subseries of other. For example, "Tarzan in the center of the Earth" by Edgar Rice Burroughs is both the 13th Tarzan book and the 4th Pellucidar book, but the series are otherwise independent.
Meanwhile, as a workaround, what I do is to put the book only in one serie (you choose the criteria: where you read it first, which series began to be published first, the biggest series...) and then I use tags and subtags for fine tuning, which makes searching easy.
When I have many different series in what could be seen a common "universe", I use a different approach. I make each their own series, and I use a common tag for the universe. That works very well for Dragonlance, Dune, etc.
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Hierarchical series mode works well for Universes (and spin-offs)
Universe.branch1
Universe.branch2
...
Sometimes the Universe level has no books, othertimes there might be Notes or guides