Series tracking

A series in ABM is a catalogue: every book Libex knows in it, with the ones you own marked. It exists whether or not you own anything in it.

Monitor New Books

Each series and author has a Monitor New Books choice. When a refresh finds a book that was not in the catalogue before, this decides whether it is added as wanted. A series you add yourself defaults to All. An author defaults to None. The choice is saved on the series or author, and refreshes apply it.

Filling gaps

Open a series and add its missing books. They enter as wanted with the profile and root folder you choose, and ABM searches for them like any other wanted book.

Status you see

The Series list shows owned, wanted and missing-file counts. A downloaded book with no files on disk counts as Missing Files, not owned.

Gotchas

• A series you added by hand stays, even with no books, until you remove it.
• Box sets with a range position such as “1-7” sort after books with a real number when ABM has to pick a primary series.
• Deleting a series removes its catalogue but never the books: the delete is refused while books remain.