Single Book and Series with the same name

[stumueller]

What happened?

I have a series of books, The harvest, sacrificial grounds, The witch cave. They are all part of a series called The Bell Witch
I also have a single book called The Bell Witch.
I have exported these books out of calibre using the save to disk function. and using the save name on the wiki page

{series:'re(ifempty($,field('title')),':',' -')'}/{series:'re(ifempty($,field('title')),':',' -')'}{series_index:0>2s| - |}

I can see in the kavita library folder I have a folder called
The Bell Witch

• The Bell Witch - 01.epub
• The Bell Witch - 02.epub
• The Bell Witch - 03.epub
• The Bell Witch.epub

The problem is that in my kavita library, they all show up under the Bell Witch Series, and the single book is marked as a special in that series.
I would like them as two seperate series though.

What is my best option for fixing this?
Would it be to save my books with author as well?

{series:'re(ifempty($,field('title') & ' - ' & field('authors')),':',' -')'}/{series:'re(ifempty($,field('title') & ' - ' & field('authors')),':',' -')'}{series_index:0>2s| - |}

But if Kavita creates the series based on title (for books that dont have a series) I'm still going to run into this problem

What did you expect?

I would like to see two separate series

Kavita Version Number - If you don't see your version number listed, please update Kavita and see if your issue still persists.

0.8.7 - Stable

What operating system is Kavita being hosted from?

Linux

If the issue is being seen on Desktop, what OS are you running where you see the issue?

Linux

If the issue is being seen in the UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome

If the issue is being seen on Mobile, what OS are you running where you see the issue?

None

If the issue is being seen on the Mobile UI, what browsers are you seeing the problem on?

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[daydreamrabbit]

The problem you mentioned is that this problem occurs because there is a work with the same title in the same library.
Kavita doesn't support this.
That's why if you want the two individually, you have to divide them with different folder names like 'title (writer name)'.

[stumueller]

So I don't have the same titles of books. The titles of my books are as follows

Author (just for ref)	Title	Series	Folder & Filename
John Taft	The Bell Witch		./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch.epub
Sara Somebody	The Harvest	The Bell Witch	./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch - 01.epub
Sara Somebody	Sacrificial Grounds	The Bell Witch	./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch - 02.epub
Sara Somebody	The Witch Cave	The Bell Witch	./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch - 03.epub

The problem I think, is because Kavita makes everything into a series, and if there is no series metadata it will take the name of the book and use that as the series. And as I have a title with the same name as a series its lumping them all together.

I tried exporting my books with the author name so it looks like this now

Title	Series	Folder & Filename
The Bell Witch		./The Bell Witch - John Taftt/The Bell Witch.epub
The Harvest	The Bell Witch	./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch - 01.epub
Sacrificial Grounds	The Bell Witch	./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch - 02.epub
The Witch Cave	The Bell Witch	./The Bell Witch/The Bell Witch - 03.epub

This then gave me different folder names; one folder for the series of three books, and one folder for the single book. But within Kavita it still put them all under one series.

In Kavita I get this

series	books	specials
The Bell Witch	The Harvest, Sacrificial Grounds, The Witch Cave	The Bell Witch

The only thing I can think of doing is renaming the series to something like The Bell Witch Series. Unless there's something that I am missing?

[scare376]

This appears to be an edge case. It's likely grouping together based on filename. If you were to add series to the end of the series title i would expect it would split them

[stumueller]

So I agree, I imagine if I rename the SERIES to "The Bell Witch Series" the problem will go away.

So it will group on filename rather than folder and filename? hence when I added hte author to hte folder it made no difference?

[scare376]

Kavita will fall back on filename in the case of missing metadata, then fallback on foldername if the filename can't be parsed

[scare376]

So since Kavita saw the missing series metadata it fell back on the filename parsing to see if it could find a match and when it did it grouped them together