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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Usually it means there is an overarching series ("universe") with several sub-series. The latter may or may not be connected by characters, events, timeline et al, but often there's some overlap and a recommended reading order.
A good example is Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Cycle.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Ah those. calibre has had support for those since forever. You basically create a second series column and then you can group them for searching so they act like a single composite column. Preferences->Searching->Grouped search terms. And they can show up in the Tag Browser as a user category as well. these were all contributed by chaley many many years ago.
I thought there was something more than that being discussed.
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Yeah, that prety easy to solve, but in the meantime is rather limitated since we can affect only 1 value by colunm.
In addintion of Series, I have Univers, Extended series, and Sub-series et ça marche très bien pour 99% des cas.
But I've had cases where it didn't no longuer work and it was unsolvable, even when adding a new column. A crossover, for example, that dead.
On the other hand also, 90% books do not require such additional field, is kind of a bazzoka on a fly solution, so something more dynamic could be appreciated.
I don't know Octary before, but maybe their handle serie like a tags/itendifiants? In this case, it is more intuitive, but at the same time, it would be difficult to attach the "type" of the series (main, sub or extended). Not to mention the technical aspects.
Else, on the fact that it is "difficult" to new user to not found how to create custom... this is very unfortunate, especially given how powerfull custom fields are, but I'm affraid we can't made it more obvious.
Maybe a improvement is possible, but that would require the expertise of a real UIX designer because IMO, Calibre has managed to avoid most of the pitfalls of FOSS software in this domain (even if is not perfect).