[DMcCunney]

My problem child at the moment is David Weber's Honor Harrington series. Calibre can define a series books are part of, and my eBook viewer (FBReader for Android) can use Calibre's metadata to show me books in a series, and present the series in the order defined in Calibre.

That's all well and good, but Weber's Honor Harrington universe has expanded, and now includes an assortment of series. Aside from the main Honorverse series, there are now also the Shadow of Saganami series, the Crown of Slaves sequence, and a few others.

All take place in the Honor Harrington universe, and share many of the same characters, but some take place in different places in the universe, at the same time (relatively speaking) as books in the main sequence, and point back to things in the main sequence.

I'm adding books to a new Android device, and I'd like to have them presented to me in internal chronology order, which will intersperse books in the Saganami and Slaves series with books in the Honorverse series.

I could go into Calibre and renumber the Honorverse series to place the other books in the internal chronology order, but that loses their series information. Another option might be duplicate copies of every book, one with the separate series data, and a second set in the internal chronology order, just called HHUniverse or the like, and tell Calibre to send those to the device. (I have the disk space to devote to it, but I prefer multiple pointers to the same file instead of duplicate files.) I also thought of adding a custom tag to all such books, and FBReader will present all books with that tag, but won't present them in the desired order.

The ideal solution would be if Calibre could have a book in more than one series and let me pick the series metadata I wanted to send to the viewer device. (It's possible it can and I just don't know about it.)

I doubt I'm the only one with issues like this. Suggestions on the best way to proceed are welcome.
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Dennis