Sub series

[PeterT]

Over the years, I had ignored the discussions on sub-series, until recently I decided to read all of the Discworld books.

I decided to experiment and see what I could do on my Kobo to handle sub-series and came up with the following approach.

Custom Columns in calibre

Lookup name: subseries
Column heading: Sub Series
Column Type: Text, column shown in the tag browser
Description: Sub Series for a book. Used as part of a calculated column for shelf definitions.

Lookup name: subshelf
Column heading: Subseries Shelf
Column Type: Column built from other columns
Description: Provide for a subseries shelf (first used for Discworld books)
Template: {#subseries:'test($,strcat(field('series'),' - ',$),'')'}

Device Driver Settings (for Kobo)

The Kobo from v2.0.0 supports bookshelves. These are created on the Kobo. Specify a tags type column for automatic management
series, #subshelf

Metadata Plugin

Format: ePub
Device: KOBOTOUCH
Source Template: {series:re(([^\s])[^\s]+(\s|$),\1)}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title}
Destination Field: title

The effect of this is for

Title: Equal Rites
Series: Discworld
Sub Series: Witches
Series Index: 3

I end up with a book titled D - 03 - Equal Rites located on both the Discworld and the Discworld - Witches shelves.

This way when I sort by title on the Kobo shelves, I can either go to the Discworld shelf and see ALL books in sequence, or I can go to the Discworld - Witches shelf and see books D - 03 - Equal Rites, D - 06 - Wyrd Sisters, ...

Books with only a main series just end up on a shelf for that series, and of course books with no series end up on no shelves.

(I suppose with shelves, I no longer need to prepend an abbreviated version of the series name to the books in it, but old habits die hard)

[theducks]

I use this for a hierarchical series type: Pern.Dragonriders
AND
A older, stupid device that only uses file/folder names (and sorting)

strcat(\nsubstr(field(\'series\'), 0, 1),template("-series/{series:subitems(0,1)||/}{series:subitems(1,2)||/}{series_index:0>5.2f}-{title}_{authors}_{id}")\n)