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What I'm asking is how you are consuming them and how they are named/grouped.

For example, based on what I've done so far, you'd have:
Wired (UK)
Wired (US)
Wired (ME)

as different Series. Then Volumes (representing the year) and Issues. Specials I can add support for as well.

The reason I broke it up like this is because UK and US editions of the same magazine Issue 1 will have different ISBNs, so it makes sense that they are broken up by series.

Is this aligned with your own understanding or are you suggesting something else and if so, what?

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It's in development, but nearing the end of the first pass and there will be a nightly soon. I HIGHLY encourage feedback as I don't collect magazines and this is being made to help the community.

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PDFs will open with the image reader instead of image reader

I assume one of those is some other kind of reader?

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PDFs will open with the image reader instead of image reader

I assume one of those is some other kind of reader?

The image reader is what you'd experience when opening archives. From what I saw with magazines, they are mainly scans and as such, the aren't going to need the full power (or limitations) of the PDF reader itself.

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What about the folder tree requirements ?
Many/most magazines have specials, and many others have geographical editions (WIRED US, UK, ME).
Something like this:

wired/
├── me
├── special
├── uk
└── us

Also, some naming conventions which help keeping the collection ordered:

# 91 is the issue number
Magazine.091.2024.04.pdf

#10 is the issue number
OtherMagazine.2023.01.010.pdf

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@Enissay I noticed different geographical editions. How would you expect them to be organized? I currently have them grouping under the issue.

Can you give me an example of Specials?

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@majora2007 Here are a few concrete examples:

How it works

• Regular issues: HERE
• Special issues
  • Inside The Human Body
  • Inside Your Brain
  • Understanding Habits
  • ...

All About Space

• Regular issues: HERE
• Special issues
  • Black Holes
  • Space Exploration
  • Apollo Missions
  • ...

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I noticed different geographical editions. How would you expect them to be organized? I currently have them grouping under the issue.

What do you mean under the issue, I am new to Kavita so forgive my ignorance xD

Anyhow, an easy way is as I showed above: all editions separated in sub-folders under the same Magazine name
So when I open a given magazine: I would have many sections/tabs: wired_me (for middle east edition), wired_us (for US edition), ...

wired/
├── me
├── special
├── uk
└── us

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Yes, that sounds reasonable enough!
Not sure if the docker nightly has any of these changes but I would be glad to test it out.
The current Manga/Comic options are not fully fitting my use case :>

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I know that this was supposed to be exclusively for magazines, but I have some old-ish newpaper archives that are also organized like maagzines, just on a daily basis. Would this overwhelm the parser or would it be okay?

Berliner Zeitung/
├─ Berliner Zeitung - 1945-05-22.pdf
├─ Berliner Zeitung - 1945-05-23.pdf
├─ Berliner Zeitung - 1945-05-24.pdf
├─ Berliner Zeitung - 1945-05-24 (Beilage).pdf
├─ Berliner Zeitung - 1945-05-25.pdf

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I have some old Magazine from Micky Maus. I have saved the Files like this:

Micky Maus Magazin
├─ 1951
├── Micky Maus Magazin -v1951 #1.cbz
├── Micky Maus Magazin -v1951 #2.cbz
├─ 1952
├── Micky Maus Magazin -v1952 #1.cbz
├── Micky Maus Magazin -v1952 #2.cbz
├─ 1953
├── Micky Maus Magazin -v1953 #1.cbz
├── Micky Maus Magazin -v1953 #2.cbz

But the Structure-Parsing does not working. I have also tested with Special (SP) instead of # . still the same.

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