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Old 07-05-2010, 07:40 AM   #51
chaley
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Originally Posted by JLYates View Post
When I had some books in a series I numbered them. First time I wasn't thinking and put in the first one first and then the second one (only two books).
In adding some other series to my Calibre I made sure to put the last one and then the first one.
If the series index (that number) is wrong, you can change it either using the metadata editor or by double-clicking on the collection and changing the number directly.

Perhaps you talking about the order that you added them to your 900? That shouldn't matter.
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Here is the other part that doesn't connect.
When I sent them to my reader (sony 900, computer is W XP) it spread them out. One book is on page and another is on another page. And a couple are not in order; book two of one is on a page and the book one is on another page.
What pages are you referring to? My 300 has books by author, books by title, books by date, and collections.
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A group of books by the same author, but not a series, is also spread all over the pages; and I entered them in order by author. And the collection is not in alphabetical order so that can not be the reason.
Are you saying that a book is in multiple collections? Or that a single collection spans multiple pages? Or something else?

It is perfectly normal that a book is in multiple collections, just as it is normal that many books can have the same tag. If you asked calibre to build collections for tags, then a given book will be in a different collection for each tag it has. Is this what you mean by "spread all over the pages"?

Calibre has no control over how the Sony sorts the list of collection names. On my 300, they are in alphabetical order. As for how books in collections are sorted within a collection, books in non-series collections are sorted by title, which by default ignores leading articles. Series collections are sorted by series index (the number you referred to above). There is no way to get collections sorted by author.
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