Trying to create a catalog with a different series

[Rellwood]

Originally Posted by chaley

The following might work for you.

• Create a series-like column "#universe", "Reading Order".
• Fill in the new column as you wish. The series name is the universe, the series index is the order to read the universe.
• Search "#universe:true"
• Select all
• Create a CSV catalog with #universe, #universe_index, and any other metadata you wish. Put the columns in the order you want them in the eventual EPUB.
• Open the .csv in LibreOffice (what I have)
• Sort by #universe, #universe_index, whatever
• Save as HTML
• Import the HTML as a book in Calibre.
• Convert to EPUB.

This produces a simple EPUB with the books in reading list order. Example using test data:

Yes, that's it. I don't know why I didn't think of this. Hell, I could even just take a screen shot of my libary with the "series universe" convert it to .pdf and send it to Amazon as a DOC and put it in the collection - but it might not be "big enough" to read all the info. I have other series by authors that are multi series universes that have a specific reading order and I downloaded .pdf's with this.