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Old 07-01-2017, 01:04 AM   #1
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Managing series

New at this. But I see series are marked with a [1] or [2] etc.
Is there a way to indicate two or more books in a series in a single ebook edition.
For example I have an ebook [1], and then an ebook which is [2-5], and then the final ebook [6]
Is there a way to show that the second ebook includes the series 2-5?
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New at this. But I see series are marked with a [1] or [2] etc.
Is there a way to indicate two or more books in a series in a single ebook edition.
For example I have an ebook [1], and then an ebook which is [2-5], and then the final ebook [6]
Is there a way to show that the second ebook includes the series 2-5?
Been hashed over many times over the years.

EPUB split is a tool to break them apart and avoid the number range issue.

I use [1.05] to imply range. That fails if there is a gap (ala J D Robb ).
1.5 is not 1-50 , but a half issue. the rule is it needs to appear to be a reasonable range
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Thanks for that. Wasn't sure if I was missing something.
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Thanks for that. Wasn't sure if I was missing something.
Nope. There will always be edge cases that break things.

Series [#] is really 2 fields underneath (String and Floating point). This allows numeric sorts of the members or you would see 1.10,100,2,200,3... alpha sorting)
There is no bullet proof solution.

BTW for magazines I use [year.issue#] and even that gets broken with 'double issues
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