[BaronKrause]

Hello! I use Caliber to manage both my ebooks and manga collection.

Manga and comic titles are usually released as separate chapters either from a magazine release or as part of a larger volume of work. Also often a release will be re released as a "v2" or "v3" indicating something was fixed from the previous.

It would be nice to be able to record that info (and in a way that caliber companion could parse into the file name if desired).

I just made 2 custom columns, 1 called "Volume" and set it to "Floating point numbers" just like how books normal numbering is (in case of some rare instance where there would be an in between standard numbering release) and made another custom column called "Version" and set it to "Integers" so I could select things like 2 or 3, etc.

While both will be parsable in calibre companion with {#volume} and {#version}, if I wanted it to look nice like "v2" at the end of a volume, or something like "Volume 4" somewhere I would need to do "v{#version}" and "Volume {#volume}" and that would leave extra garbage like "v" and "Volume " with no number in the names of all items that have that info undefined (the majority).

Also it seems once you change those values from the default "Undefined" in an item's metadata, you can't go back to Undefined, it will always show that field name and a number under a books details. Typing in "Undefined" again just goes to 0 or 0.00, and shows as such in the books info instead of the default Undefined and not shown. Is there a way to clear those fields, or once changed they are stuck until you delete that column or book?


Is this the most elegant way of doing this? Would it be better to make just 2 Columns called "Volume" and "Version" and set the type to "Long text, like comments, not shown in the Tag browser" (since it would not offer anything useful to be able to see all unrelated books labeled Volume 3 or Version 5) and just type in "Volume 3" or "v5" into the comment of that field if it has one? There doesn't seem to be any issue with clearing it after the fact either. I can also add " {#version}" to the end of the file name in Calibre Companion this way and it will add a v2/3/4, etc to the end with a space before, but if there is no version listed the file name will just end without an additional space, since a file name cannot have spaces after the last character which works out well here.