Series Count for Omnibus's

[HogDrvr]

Is there a way to include multiple counts in a series for a collection (omnibus)? For example: if I have an omnibus of books 5, 6 and 7 of the John Doe series, can I somehow show that in Calibre? Currently, I would just mark it number 5 in the series, then have a gap until #8. It would be nice to mark that entry as John Doe [5-7].

[DNSB]

Not sure if this is any use to you, but what's I've done is to use multiple numbers in the series index. That is, the first box set with books 1, 2, 3 would be 1.23 while books 4, 5, 6 would be 4.56. This works until you get more than 9 books in a series which, for me, has happened once. At that point, I just changed the series to whatever box and used the standard 1, 2, 3, 4 numbering.

You could create a custom field but too much of a pain getting it to the series field on my ereader.

There is an older thread on this topic. You can find it at Enabling entry of multiple books of same series for Boxed Sets.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by HogDrvr

Is there a way to include multiple counts in a series for a collection (omnibus)? For example: if I have an omnibus of books 5, 6 and 7 of the John Doe series, can I somehow show that in Calibre? Currently, I would just mark it number 5 in the series, then have a gap until #8. It would be nice to mark that entry as John Doe [5-7].

I would like to have the option as well. All the workarounds I've tried just don't do it for me. I will probably try to create a custom series column, but to get that working with the series plugboard for my Kindles might be difficult.

Perhaps someone will write a plugin someday... A person can dream.

[Sirtel]

I played around with creating a custom column that would do what I (and the OP) want. After some tinkering I got quite satisfying results. Here's what it looks like in my Calibre library.

I also fiddled with my metadata plugboard and got it working with the new column, but in the end I decided to stay with the old template (mainly because I don't want to send all my omnibus editions to my kindles again).

[Gary_M_Mugford]

I added a custom column called #omni which has come to be really Omnibus OR Anthology. It even displays now as O-A. It's a checkbox field. Obviously, just anthologies that are NOT collections (Best of the year, etc) have no series info, although a story contained there in CAN be a series short story that you want to denote.

Soooo, a second custom column called #endvol lets me have my cake and eat it too. I fill in the starting number in the series index and then the end of the compilation in End Volume. Then I check O-A. (You might think that's overkill). I then sort my selected books by #endvol and then by series index and send the list to my device in the order I want them to show up (reverse order in the case of Kindle Paperwhite). The template has been changed to detect an entry in the #endvol and, if so, attach a dash and then that number to the series index part of the title I've created. Bob's your uncle.

Easy to manage. The template took a few seconds worth of remembering CHaley's instructions and that was it. I use to use the decimals to work out compilations, 1.23; 4.56 etc. But somehow, some of my favourite authors have managed to get past the ten volumes in a series (hey, shout out to readers of Perry Rhodan). Plus, I've started storing comic collections in Calibre as HC (#hardcover) or PB (#paperback) and the system I'm using does well with issue numbers.

Just a suggestion. GM