Best way to manage book series.

[hlhp]

I want to know is there any better way to mange book series.

I have some books in the series, some of them of many books in 1 series, others just have few or one.

If I want to browsing books, it will appear a lot of books in the same series, which make others hard to be seen.

Wondering is there a way to group the series together, or only showing 1 book of the series.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by hlhp

I want to know is there any better way to mange book series.

I have some books in the series, some of them of many books in 1 series, others just have few or one.

If I want to browsing books, it will appear a lot of books in the same series, which make others hard to be seen.

Wondering is there a way to group the series together, or only showing 1 book of the series.

Calibre has a series view. That's what I use. (Calibre has it's own forum here)

Apple's books will also group books in one series together, as long as you buy the books from Apple and Apple recognizes them as a series.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Calibre has a series view. That's what I use. (Calibre has it's own forum here)

This. Also, Calibre will show all of the books in a series, by the same author, in order in the main library.
Apache

[hlhp]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Calibre has a series view. That's what I use. (Calibre has it's own forum here)

Apple's books will also group books in one series together, as long as you buy the books from Apple and Apple recognizes them as a series.

Originally Posted by Apache

This. Also, Calibre will show all of the books in a series, by the same author, in order in the main library.
Apache

Thank you pwalker8, Apache.

I did not notice there are a caliber forum at the bottom, my bad.

Did you mean the tag browser "series" filter, which only showing list of series names?
Or a view that can show the the series in cover?

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by hlhp

Thank you pwalker8, Apache.

I did not notice there are a caliber forum at the bottom, my bad.

Did you mean the tag browser "series" filter, which only showing list of series names?
Or a view that can show the the series in cover?

Both. You can also sort by author, title, series and a number of other ways.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by hlhp

Thank you pwalker8, Apache.

I did not notice there are a caliber forum at the bottom, my bad.

Did you mean the tag browser "series" filter, which only showing list of series names?
Or a view that can show the the series in cover?

Or the little remembered: Quickview (Q)

click on the series (Author, Publisher) name: Tap 'Q' AND PRESTO!
You can sort that view by clicking the column title

[hlhp]

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Both. You can also sort by author, title, series and a number of other ways.

thank you pwalker8

I think my question was asking ambiguously, or I can not find a way to do it.

I am able to list all different series in name in the left panel.
or show all the books(covers) in a specific series in the main panel.

But can not find a way to show all different series, but only a book(cover) for each series in the main panel.

Originally Posted by theducks

Or the little remembered: Quickview (Q)

click on the series (Author, Publisher) name: Tap 'Q' AND PRESTO!
You can sort that view by clicking the column title

thank you theducks

I never know there is a quick view, it is kind of handy compare with the left panel.

[Sunlite]

With the searche

series_index:"1"

I can find all books that have either no series index set or are the first in a series.

You could use that to create a virtual library. If you use the cover grid, you could add an icon to the covers of books with a series.

In the book list you could mark line with books in a series with a rule.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sunlite

With the searche

series_index:"1"

I can find all books that have either no series index set or are the first in a series.

You could use that to create a virtual library. If you use the cover grid, you could add an icon to the covers of books with a series.

In the book list you could mark line with books in a series with a rule.

Or you could change the text color for books without a series.

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by hlhp

thank you pwalker8

I think my question was asking ambiguously, or I can not find a way to do it.

I am able to list all different series in name in the left panel.
or show all the books(covers) in a specific series in the main panel.

But can not find a way to show all different series, but only a book(cover) for each series in the main panel.



thank you theducks

I never know there is a quick view, it is kind of handy compare with the left panel.

In calibre, you can list the books in a specific series in the main panel by selecting that specific series in the left hand panel, or you can see all books that belong to any series in the main panel by clicking on the series tab or putting "series:true" in the search. Then you can sort the responses by series title, author or whatever. Sorting by series will also show the books in series order. It's very handy. I use it fairly frequently, especially when I can't quite remember which the next book in the series is.

[hlhp]

Originally Posted by Sunlite

With the searche

series_index:"1"

thank you Sunlite
series_index:"1"is working perfectly.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Or you could change the text color for books without a series.

thank you JSWolf
I will try to experiment with it later, thanks for the advice.

Originally Posted by pwalker8

In calibre, you can list the books in a specific series...

thank you pwalker8 again
the left side filtering pancel is very powerful, it make the navigate very smooth.