Is "Book order" episode ordering unsupported?

I just encountered a show on tvdb that had an order category called “Book order” that I’ve never seen before. While looking around I found out that this is the majorly agreed order you should watch this show in. But I then found out that Plex doesn’t seem to support this as the settings for the show only provide “Aired”, “DVD”, and “Absolute” as options from tvdb even though the show has an additional type? I’m guessing that the types have been hardcoded and the one who did that simply didn’t know there were any more. “Book” seems to be an uncommon type, as I’d never seen it before the other day.

Is there any way to solve this ordering issue for me right now, or do I need support for this to be added? (I suspect the latter)
I can probably un-match the show and use local metadata instead, but I would prefer not to do that if possible.

Should I request this somewhere or does this post serve that purpose as well?

The show in question is 物語シリーズ - TheTVDB.com

I also was not sure if this belonged in the Metadata & Adding files category or not since it’s mostly about missing support for an agent feature, so I left it in General Discussions.

Custom orderings are not supported currently.

There is an open Feature Suggestion for this already: Support Alternate Order / Flexible Seasons (TVDB) and Episode Groups (TMDB)

Ah, nice to know what the underlying feature is. Shame it’s not supported. I don’t have high hopes given that it has been requested for nearly 3 years at this point by the looks of this thread.

Guess the only option is to disregard the agent for this show and manually add the metadata until proper support is added.

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