Series & arcs

Long-running series — manga, light novels, multi-volume sagas — are first-class in Tome. Volumes group automatically, optional arcs subdivide an enormous series into readable chunks, and a status badge tells you at a glance whether more is coming.

How series are detected

On scan and on upload, Tome inspects the filename for a series name and volume index. Books that match get a series + series_index set on their record; books that don't end up in the "No Series" virtual bucket.

Filename patterns Tome understands:

The series page

Every series gets its own page at /series/{name}. It shows:

• A grid of all volumes, in order
• Reading progress per volume (unread / reading / read), aggregated into a series-wide progress bar
• A status badge — ongoing, finished, hiatus, or unknown — pulled from SeriesMeta
• If arcs are defined, volumes group into arc sections with a per-arc description

Arcs

Arcs are how you subdivide a long series. Berserk's 40+ volumes split naturally into Black Swordsman, Golden Age, Conviction, etc. — defining those as arcs lets readers see structure instead of an undifferentiated wall of 40 covers.

Creating arcs

1. Open the series page as an admin.
2. Click Manage arcs in the header.
3. Add an arc: name, start volume, end volume, optional description.
4. Arcs can be inclusive ranges (e.g. 1–3 means volumes 1, 2, and 3) and can use fractional indices for half-volumes.
5. Volumes outside any arc still show up in a default "Other volumes" section.

Series status

A series can be marked ongoing, finished, hiatus, or unknown. The badge appears on the series page and on the dashboard's series grid. Admins set status manually, or let Scribe populate it from LLM knowledge via /scribe series <name>.

The "No Series" bucket

Standalone fiction — most western novels — ends up here. It's a virtual sidebar entry, not a real series; the books inside it still have all the usual library/type assignments.