Thread: Forma How can I have my books' subtitle in its own line, under the book's title? (see pic)
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Old 11-06-2019, 08:32 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
When Calibre was first written, it was called libprs500. It was written for the Sony Reader PRS-500. The Series column you understand. But when you wanted to create a collection and didn't need a series number you used the Tag column. That was where you put in a collection name such as Science Fiction.

I know you can still populate the Tag column and the Series column. But when the eBook isn't part of a Series, you populate the Tag column to manage the collection. By default, if the Series column is empty, the Series field in the Kobo database remains empty.

What I want is to use the Tag field to populate the series Series field in the Kobo database is the Series column is empty. This way when sorting by series, books that are standalone that say belong in Science Fiction get sorted by series correctly.

I hope this makes sense to you. It would be the same as Series without a series number.

And now that you know the history of the Tag column, you now know why I say to use the Tag column when setting up what columns to use for collections. Because Tag already exists and that's what it was used for from day one.
Sorry, but that isn't the history of the tags column. It is the one way of creating collections on one device type. This did get inherited by other devices (the Kobo driver collection management is based on it).

And, as I have said more than once, there is currently no way to set the series info to something other than the calibre series. I have no interest in making the change needed to do this. And, I don't really think it is a good idea. Why not just make collection for the tags like on the Sony?
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