Series number for box sets

DNSB · 05-14-2017, 08:28 PM

I was helping a friend set up Calibre to manage their ebooks. They have quite a few box sets where a single volume includes between 3 and 5 books from a series. The question is if it is possible to have the series number show the individual book numbers so you would see something like:

Code:

book title:      The Three of Swords
series name:     Fafhrd and Grey Mouser
series number:   1.00,2.00,3.00

book title:      Swords' Master
series name:     Fafhrd and Grey Mouser
series number:   4.00,5.00,6.00

At first I was going to say no but then decided to bounce the question around here in case I was missing the obvious.

theducks · 05-14-2017, 08:44 PM

various schemes have been tossed about, including
EPUBSPLIT (the PI)

I use firstbook.lastbook 2 digits each side of the dot (falls apart over 99 )
01.05
09.12

kovidgoyal · 05-14-2017, 09:21 PM

The series number field accepts only a single, floating point number.

DNSB · 05-15-2017, 02:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The series number field accepts only a single, floating point number.

That's what I thought but wanted to double check before delivering the can't be done answer. I suspect we'll be going with theducks' suggestion. Might be just a bit faster than waiting for the series field to allow multiple entries.

05-14-2017, 08:28 PM	#1
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,243 Karma: 168983734 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Series number for box sets I was helping a friend set up Calibre to manage their ebooks. They have quite a few box sets where a single volume includes between 3 and 5 books from a series. The question is if it is possible to have the series number show the individual book numbers so you would see something like: Code: book title: The Three of Swords series name: Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series number: 1.00,2.00,3.00 book title: Swords' Master series name: Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series number: 4.00,5.00,6.00 At first I was going to say no but then decided to bounce the question around here in case I was missing the obvious.

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05-14-2017, 08:44 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,062 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	various schemes have been tossed about, including EPUBSPLIT (the PI) I use firstbook.lastbook 2 digits each side of the dot (falls apart over 99 ) 01.05 09.12

05-14-2017, 09:21 PM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,359 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The series number field accepts only a single, floating point number.