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Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks)
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Add Series to top level, same as Authors and Books, and handle multiple authors in a serie #3129

Open bthuree opened 6 months ago

bthuree commented 6 months ago

Is there an existing issue for this?

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

There is no Serie handling on top level, only under Authors. Radarr and Sonarr has serie and collections as a top level menu item. While the existing serie feature in Readarr is great, and really is one of my key wants (to be able to grab new books in my old favorite series :) ) But only having the serie under the authors name, breaks if:

Describe the solution you'd like

Have a top level Series entry, where all series will be displayed, as well as

Describe alternatives you've considered

Well, My calibre library has the serie name correctly, since I put it in there when I imported each book.

Anything else?

I fully understand that the current version of Readarr can not handle this, possible due to database limitations. But, for future improvements, I would think that this would be a good improvement. When I read a book serie, I want to read the serie, and don't really care about the author. Would be devastating to find out that my beloved serie has another 5-10 books in it, but readarr don't know that since a new author took over (possible original author passed away?)

bthuree commented 6 months ago

Ok, even more complicated... Check this book for instance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62479.Servant_of_the_Shard Same book belongs to multiple different series. The Sellswords (#1), Paths of Darkness (#3), Forgotten Realms Chronological (#61), The Legend of Drizzt (#14)