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Being simple minded this what I hear. need books to be order chronologically but also have the capacity to group by series, subseries and have space to insert new ones. so I translate this into:

date.serie.subserie.booknumber

subserie would be 0 for the major serie

examples:

Rookie 26831126.4.0.1

Starter 26840605.4.0.2

title Fight 26840305.4.1.1

Because the date is first, you will always have perfect chronological order. bonus: your serie number does not need to be in order. you can assign it any number it would still appear in the prorper order (infinite expansion)

Since the serie number is there, you always know which books are related and their orders. the subserie let's you know that it is not part of the main serie thread but is related to it.

I would suggest make the serie and subserie a 2 digit number, so you have 99 possible series and 99 possible subseries for each. the 2 digit is to take care of the sorting order since it would have to use the string sort algorithm. it would then look like:

Rookie 26831126.40.00.1

Starter 26840605.40.00.2

title Fight 26840317.40.01.1

hope this make sense

by the way, you should advertise way more that Nocturnal is also available for pre-order at barnes and noble. I thought it was amazon only, until I stumbled and pre-order it at B&N