15 February 2026 · Book Assembly Team · 2 min read
A few weeks ago I wrote about why book series are a mess. The short version: publishers hide numbers, reading orders are debated endlessly, and most trackers treat series as an afterthought.
We've just shipped something that should help.
Previously, managing a series in Book Assembly meant editing each book individually. Want to add five books to a series? Five separate edits. Want to reorder them because you added book 3 before book 1? More editing. Want to see all the books in a series at once? You had to filter your whole library.
It worked. It wasn't pleasant.
Each series now has its own management page. Click a series name anywhere in the app and you get:
If your positions are messy - gaps, duplicates, books with no position set - there's a "Renumber" button that tidies everything to 1, 2, 3.
Series with three books are manageable. Series with fifteen aren't. If you're tracking something like Discworld or The Dresden Files or a long-running crime series, you need to see the whole thing at once.
Now you can.
You can also move books between series properly. Adding a book that's already in another series shows you a warning and handles the switch cleanly. No more orphaned series positions or wrong book counts.
Two ways in:
Both take you to the same place.
We're still in beta, still free. If you've been putting off organising your series because it was too tedious, now's a good time.
