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Originally Posted by Wiggo
How do you mark/tag series with different authors?
It happens to me very often that I completely overlook the fact that the series contains several authors. I know I can search for books in that series, but I often just forget.
And then when I read the series I realize - whoops, there are books missing because the last ones are from a different author.
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I do nothing special entering data into Calibre. Once my books are entered, I simply click on the Series name to filter to only that series. So different authors become a non-issue as the books are listed regardless.
When I am about to embark on reading a series, I research the books in the series before I start.
Once I have a complete list of the books in the series and related series, I add them into Calibre, whether I have the ebooks or not. Some may be entered as stub entries only (purple items in the image). To me it is important that the books are ordered by story timeline, so they will be added and numbered that way.
I can then start reading in confidence that I have listed all the books and they are in correct order and not kick myself after realising there is a prequel book that I never knew about.
I also combine multiple series into one when the author, for some reason, breaks them into multiple series eg The Saga of Seven Suns which is followed by The Saga of Shadows or The Rho Agenda: Inception, The Rho Agenda and The Rho Agenda: Assimilation.
And for those books in the series I don't have, I'll wait before purchasing to see how much I enjoy the books I do have. No need to waste money on books in a series that I am not enjoying. (as evidenced in the image)