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Originally Posted by just_jeepin
Thanks for the info. I just hate that Calibre keeps the Metadata in an separate file. I want my metadata stored IN the file that way it's not tied to that one app.
That's why I don't use many of the photo apps as very few actually make changes to the Metadata in the actual jpg file. I can see not altering a document that's lossy (photo tweaking) but text Metadata in jpgs and ebooks are lossless and should be in the actual file.
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Epub 2 doesn't support series metadata. For epub3s I use Sigil's metadata editor (dunno about how to do it with Calibre). I add the metadata belongs-to-collection giving it the name of the series (Add Metadata button). Then with that selected I use the Add Property button and add collection-type and set it to series, then add the property group-position and add its series position. You need to do this before you add the book to Calibre; I don't know if you could edit the book's metadata in Sigil after the book has been added to Calibre and then make Calibre extract it into its metadata.
That's a bit of work and I only do it on books that I've reworked from books from Project Gutenberg. For getting the series information onto the ereader (Kobo in my case), what Calibre does is sufficient for library, amazon, etc. books. But I agree with you about storing it in the book; it makes more sense to me to put it in the book but there are no doubt good reasons Calibre does it the way it does.