I use a folder structure under
Books. The main folders are thought of "Collections", since not all readers support these the same way, and I wish to separate
Fiction,
Non-Fiction,
News and
Tests. "
Ohne Sammlung" ("No Collection") is used if #collection is empty.
Under these, I use
Code:
Author sort - Title sort (Publishing year)
because I sometimes have the same book in more than one edition.
Series (for each "collection") are in a subfolder "
Serien" ("Series") with the
series name as folder name. Inside those, I use
Code:
Number in series - Title sort (Publishing year) - Author sort
In series, the sequence is more important, so it is upfront. Multiple authors can write in a series, so the author is also included.
I have a
#collection column in Calibre, and my output template is
Code:
{#collection:ifempty(Ohne Sammlung)}/{series:|Serien/|/}{series_index:0>4s|| - }{series:'test($, '', sublist(field('author_sort'),0,1,'&'))'|| - }{title}{pubdate:| (|)}{series:'test($, sublist(field('author_sort'),0,1,'&'), '')'| - |}
Have been using this scheme for >5 years now, and it works nicely with all devices, Android, Tolino, Pocketbook, KOReader, etc. I
embed the metadata in all EPUBs, so that reader software can use it.
The Tolino shown has 1268 books, my Pocketbook ~1800.