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Originally Posted by chaley
I looked at the Kobo driver code. There is a way to get partially there using a plugboard.
The driver sets the series name and index to whatever the plugboard produces. You can't have two series numbers so you can't have a subseries index, but it does accept floating point indices so you can encode the subseries into that.
My thought: for a book with series X[10] subseries S[4]. Use the plugboard to set the series to 'X - S', and to set the series index to 10.04 (zero-padding the subseries index). This will sort on the kobo first by the series-subseries name, then by the index.
For example: - Series X[4]
- Series X[8]
- Series X[5]
- Series X[5] Subseries Q[1]
- Series X[5] Subseries Q[11]
- Series A[20] Subseries B[4]
- Series A[20] Subseries B[21]
- Series A[4]
- Series A[21]
we would get on the Kobo (sorted)
Code:
A [4]
A [21]
A - B [20.04]
A - B [20.21]
X [4]
X [5]
X [8]
X - Q [5.01]
X - Q [5.11]
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I don't know about Kobo, but my Sony would treat those as four distinct series: A, A - B, X, X - Q.
The hackish workaround I found was to go with the base series, with series index as "{series_index}.{subseries_index:02d}", so they sort in the right order... then (depending on when we're talking about and my mood at the time) either abused the author field or prepended to the title.
Each book is displayed with (title, author) on separate lines
Magician: Apprentice
Midkemia [1], Riftwar [1]
Magician: Master
Midkemia [1], Riftwar [2]
Silverthorn
Midkemia [1], Riftwar [3
Darkness at Sethanon
Midkemia [1] Riftwar [4]
Daughter of the Empire
Midkemia [2], Empire [1]
Servant of the Empire
Midkemia [2], Empire [2]
Mistress of the Empire
Midkemia [2], Empire [3]
The books were presented in series order (1.01-1.04, 2.01-2.03) but I could see from the 'author' where they landed and the subseries.
Not very satisfying, I had a weird set of authors (who is 'Empire [2] Midkemia [2]' when they get paid?), but it did the job. More or less.
Putting the series and subseries details in the title was, I suppose, technically less bad, but it made for some very long, at least in my reader, titles that were kind of useless to me in the long run.
Midkemia [1] Riftwar [1] - Magician: Apprentice
Midkemia [1] Riftwar [2] - Magician: Master
Midkemia [1] Riftwar [3] - Silverthorn
Midkemia [1] Riftwar [4] - Darkness at Sethanon
Midkemia [2] Empire [1] - Daughter of the Empire
Midkemia [2] Empire [2] - Servant of the Empire
Midkemia [2] Empire [3] - Mistress of the Empire
A few years ago I did propose a series/subseries enhancement to address this whole problem, as I recall it was closed #wontfix. (Which I can understand, it's a weird problem.)