[Feature Request] Add filtering by Year or Date range

[otravers]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It can be overwhelming to browse a large library, and sometimes you might want to explore by based on publication year. Say you want to see what oldie classics you have, or catch up on a specific year.

Describe the solution you'd like

A Year selector in the side filter panel would do, for instance like Plex does with a dropdown filter:

A cooler implementation would let the user select a range, either with start/end years, or even a full-fledged date picker (i.e. also leverage month and even day metadata if that's available):
https://uxplanet.org/how-to-design-a-perfect-date-picker-control-7f47d1290c3a

An even cooler UX would display the number of books over time as a chart selector, but I'll admit that's probably overkill!
https://dribbble.com/shots/5263343--Date-Range-Selector

[gotson]

Would that be for browsing Series, or Books ?

In terms of metadata, Books have release date, but Series have no information about date. #181 could help in reducing the data of the books at series level, but how would you handle a Series that started publishing in 2000 for 10 years until 2009 ?

[otravers]

That would be both for browsing series where it would be most useful, and for books (kind of useful for really big series that span many years, there's already sorting by release date for books).

Deriving a series release date from its earliest book release date should ould work, and possibly having a series end based on latest release date as well, though that's not as essential.

In Plex, Year at the TV Show level (equivalent to series for comics) = year of the first season (Plex doesn't let you filter at the season level). And Year of the first season is really year of its first episode (at the Episode level (filtering by year is again available at the episode level).

Plex handles year metadata with its folder naming convention: TV Show (Release Year) or Movie (Release Year)

[gotson]

Release year for Series derived from the earliest release date of its books sounds like the best option. I can try to fit that in #181.

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