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Old 01-10-2023, 11:25 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
Because sort by title results look better if books in series are clumped together. And I guess it partly because I am used to seeing it done that way on kindle or on tablet for moon reader.
Just personal preference.
And inserted on having 1st seven characters of the full name

Ii was wondering how to duplicate that in calibre, i.e. have an extra column which shows the short series name as a what do you call it in calibre - ..a derived or calculated column
Possibly create a column for the truncated series with the template set to:

Code:
{series:.7}_{series_index:}
See attached image for my quick and dirty test.
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