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steffiebaby140 said: Hmmm...both systems have their good points and their bad points.  But here is the drawback for me on both of them, I am i love with book covers.  I want to see a clean cover, with an amazing picture, a very clear title, and tell me who the author is...anything else clutters up the cover and makes it very unattractive to me.  And I have been known to buy books based on covers alone, not even knowing what they are about...ok, to be honest I do that a majority of the time lol.  Here is a thought that is not based on numbering or dating at all:

Why not add a page to the back or front of each book.  This could be as complex or simple as you like...it this page would basically detail the different "eras", and then would list in order the different works.  You could even make this almost like a family tree.  I have seen authors do this with character trees that are out of control, so you can instantly see who that character is and what book you've seen then in before.  So...for example, let's go with Infected, this page could look something like.

Old Era
work 1
work 2
work 39

Modern era
work x
work y
Infected
work z
work b

You see the idea, but then this presents the problem of...well how to we have a completed tree on older books.  Easily, you don't.  You add the books that are currently printed, then if something new comes out you update that book's Siglerverse tree and all books that come after it.  Obviously this is not a perfect system either, but it eliminates the problem of cumbersome numbers down the line.