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capink · 02-25-2021, 07:34 AM

I don't totally understand what you want to do but I will point out two things:

The notion of complete series is/cannot be well defined. What if you only have parts 1,2,3 of a 5 parts series. No way to detect you are missing the last two.
A more practical thing, is to look for series gaps. That can be done using the quality check plugin. (check metadata > check series gaps). The plugin will mark books with series gap as 'series_gaps' and show them using the search:
Code:
```
marked:series_gaps
```
If you want to show series with no gaps, you can use this search instead:
Code:
```
series:true and not marked:series_gaps
```
You can now use this search to make a virtual library. Note that as soon as you close or restart calibre, the marks will be cleared. So you will have to run the check series gap again.

02-25-2021, 07:34 AM	#2
capink Wizard Posts: 1,200 Karma: 1995558 Join Date: Aug 2015 Device: Kindle	I don't totally understand what you want to do but I will point out two things: The notion of complete series is/cannot be well defined. What if you only have parts 1,2,3 of a 5 parts series. No way to detect you are missing the last two. A more practical thing, is to look for series gaps. That can be done using the quality check plugin. (check metadata > check series gaps). The plugin will mark books with series gap as 'series_gaps' and show them using the search: Code: marked:series_gaps If you want to show series with no gaps, you can use this search instead: Code: series:true and not marked:series_gaps You can now use this search to make a virtual library. Note that as soon as you close or restart calibre, the marks will be cleared. So you will have to run the check series gap again.