Is this a series?

[CJ]

Hi. I don't think this is a series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/276261

Looks more like listopia since it doesn't have common authors or publishers.

[lethe]

#813

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I'd call that series a borderline case. But all the same author, and the titles (Reflections... , More Reflections... , Further Reflections...), all on the same subject, may make it valid.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

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[Wren]

Hi,
Could you make these books into a series please?
Thanks!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Sandra]

#815 done

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2820...

[Wren]

Sandra wrote: "#815 done

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2820..."

Thanks Sandra!

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Anyone familiar with this series?

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2107...

No common characters in the descriptions. In addition book number 4 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... no setting is mentioned & the cover doesn't look Regency.

[Miriam]

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Anyone familiar with this series?

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2107...

No common characters in the descriptions. In addition book number 4 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show..."

Based on the reviews the characters do overlap between the books.

[DrosoPHila]

Well, this unnamable person has just deleted the series again. I'm not sure how to deal with this unnamable person. I hope that the community will.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2831...

I have recreated it. I'm not going to ask "is this a series" because the answer is fairly obvious. I'm going to have to ask "is this NOT a series?"

The author every month for 27 years wrote an essay for "Natural History" magazine. Each book is a collection of essays. They are uniform in cohesive in terms of titles (all are subtitled "reflections in natural history"), authorship, format and content. It even says that they are a series in the book themselves! I think it would be hard to describe these as not being a series, but clearly somebody doesn't agree, so what gives them the right to keep deleting it?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

DrosoPHila wrote: "The author every month for 27 years wrote an essay for "Natural History" magazine. Each book is a collection of essays. They are uniform in cohesive in terms of titles (all are subtitled "reflections in natural history"), authorship, format and content. It even says that they are a series in the book themselves!"

None of those things makes it a series on Goodreads. More definitively, to be a series on Goodreads, it must apply to each and every edition of the books involved. That is pretty clearly not true.

Deleting.

[DrosoPHila]

rivka wrote: "DrosoPHila wrote: "The author every month for 27 years wrote an essay for "Natural History" magazine. Each book is a collection of essays. They are uniform in cohesive in terms of titles (all are s..."

"It must apply" - can you elaborate on what "it" is?

[R]

Two questions: is this considered a series on Goodreads?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/1246...

If so, should the individual series or the collection be the primary series on each book?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

DrosoPHila wrote: ""It must apply" - can you elaborate on what "it" is?"

Being part of the series. In that case, it is clear that while some of the editions were published under that imprint, many were not.

In general, few non-fiction books meet the Goodreads definition of a series.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

R wrote: "Two questions: is this considered a series on Goodreads?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/1246..."

I am not familiar with these works, but it looks like they may have a common universe in which they are all set. Someone who has read some of them may wish to comment.


R wrote: "If so, should the individual series or the collection be the primary series on each book?"

Sub-series should be first, pretty much always.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Miriam wrote: "Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Anyone familiar with this series?

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2107...

No common characters in the descriptions. In addition book number 4 http..."

Thanks Miriam

[Nadine Bookaholic]

Country Love Series by Rebecca Sharp

Each book is a complete standalone with no crossover characters or story-lines, the common thread is that each book is written based on a Country Song that has inspired the author.

I was working with the author and had setup a series page that had each book listed without numbers indicating that the books could be read in any order but it has been deleted.

Books in this series to date:
Tequila
Ready to Run
Fastest Girl in Town

If this doesn't fall under the Goodreads series criteria is there still a way that we can have them grouped together?

[Emily]

Nadine Bookaholic wrote: "If this doesn't fall under the Goodreads series criteria is there still a way that we can have them grouped together?"

No, I'm sorry.

[Sandra]

Nadine Bookaholic wrote: "Country Love Series by Rebecca Sharp

Each book is a complete standalone with no crossover characters or story-lines, the common thread is that each book is written based on a Country Song that has..."

You could create a Listopia List of them, but it won't show up on the book pages like a series link would.

[Nadine Bookaholic]

Sandra wrote: "You could create a Listopia List of them, but it won't show up on the book pages like a series link would."

Okay, thank you.

[Aušrinė]

Sandra wrote: "You could create a Listopia List of them, but it won't show up on the book pages like a series link would."

The link to Listopia list exists on the book page, but not in the obvious position. It (Lists with This Book) is under My Activity, Friends' Reviews and Readers Q&A.
It is not as straight-forward as series link, but still useful.

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

And it will only show up on the specific edition thats added to the listopia - not on others.

[Suzi]

There is a "series" called Disney's Wonderful World of Reading
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2823...

It is clearly not a series. Some books are exclusive Disney ones, and others are adaptations. I started to trying to make sense of "Bambi" as I was trying to shelve an old edition that didn't seem to be in the database, and went down this rabbit hole... I'm trying to separate the Felix Salten text books from the adaptations.

Should the name Disney's Wonderful World of Reading be listed in the edition field of these books and the series deleted or changed to a List?

Wanted to ask before I start this project. [If this is the wrong place to ask, I'm sorry. I read a lot of other Disney issues but didn't find this one.]

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Suzi wrote: "Should the name Disney's Wonderful World of Reading be listed in the edition field of these books and the series deleted or changed to a List?"

Yes, that's exactly right.

[Nay]

I've been asked to create a series for these lecture books on physics, but I'm not clear about whether this type of books (since they are about shared subject matter) counts as a series:

https://www.goodreads.com/search?page...

In searching, I've found some similar lecture books are in series and some aren't, so I thought I better check to make sure.

Thank you!

[Nay]

I was wondering if anyone could possibly give me some input about my above question? I've been asked about it again (and have since found out that someone else also posted a request for the series to be created. I was watching for it to be addressed in that thread, but it looks to have gotten missed). I left my question here because I'm curious about non-fiction and reference books such as this in reference to series creation,

FYI--here's a link to the request for the series to be created. It's #33 on this page:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thank you!

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Renee ❤️My heroes are ordinary wrote: "I was wondering if anyone could possibly give me some input about my above question? I've been asked about it again (and have since found out that someone else also posted a request for the series ..."
Hi Renee

Im not good on non fiction series but to me that looks like an imprint & if anyone wants to, a list could be created.

There looks to be other things that need fixing - that stuff in brackets, a Russian language one that has a description in English.

Unless someone more expert chimes in I would err on the side of caution and leave alone.

[Nay]

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Renee ❤️My heroes are ordinary wrote: "I was wondering if anyone could possibly give me some input about my above question? I've been asked about it again (and have since found out that someone els..."

That's what I'm thinking. I was going to suggest a listopia list to the person who asked about it, but I wanted to make sure for now and for future reference. Especially since I'm anticipating being asked "why not?" And I basically know why not if it's an imprint, but I'd like to give them more specifics if possible. Thank you for replying!

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

My pleasure Renee.

My experience has been that veryfew non fiction series are series by Goodreads standards.

[Marisa]

I don't think this is a series, but rather an imprint or a collection. Thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1783...

[Emily]

#840 You're right, it is a collection/imprint of books that have to do with Alabama all by the same publisher. I have deleted it.

[Moloch]

Is this really a series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2850...

"Book 0.5" is said to be the deleted first chapter of "Dracula" from the draft manuscript, it was then published after Stoker's death.

[Moloch]

Moloch wrote: "Is this really a series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2850...

"Book 0.5" is said to be the deleted first chapter of "Dracula" from the draft manuscript, it was then published aft..."

Any advice on #842 please?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Moloch wrote: "Is this really a series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2850...

"Book 0.5" is said to be the deleted first chapter of "Dracula" from the draft manuscript, it was then published aft..."

It's a short. It was published by the author or his estate (his widow, in this case), as a prequel to the other work. Seems ok to me.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

C. wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/series/2868... not a series"

Deleted #845
Anyone want to give a second opinion on #846? I don't work much with series & am always nervous deleting them.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

C. wrote: "Sorry but you asked for a second opinion so I shouldn't of said anything. :/"

I'm sure you're right - I'm just being a baby. I'll delete now.

#846 Deleted

[Suzi]

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "C. wrote: "Sorry but you asked for a second opinion so I shouldn't of said anything. :/"

I'm sure you're right - I'm just being a baby. I'll delete now.

#846 Deleted"
If it matters: I concur. It's not a series.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Always glad of support Suzi. 😊

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

I don't think this is a series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2104...

Arts Industry and Set in Scotland seem too general to me.

[Suzi]

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "I don't think this is a series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2104...

Arts Industry and Set in Scotland seem too general to me."

yup it's too general. nope. not a series.
;~}

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Suzi wrote: "Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "I don't think this is a series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2104...

Arts Industry and Set in Scotland seem too general to me."

yup it's too general. nop..."

Series number #2 & #2.5 do have a character in common (Killian) So those two books would be a series. I'm wondering if I should re-do the series with just those two books.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2104...

[Galadriel]

Hey guys!
Is this a series?
https://www.goodreads.com/series/289226
It seems like it is a collection in Russian (Сенсация в
медицине)- but the books have different authors from different countries and have nothing to do with each other, except for the general topic of covering human anatomy/physiology in a fun way.
I think it's a bit annoying to see the Russian series name under a title in Danish/Norwegian but apart from this, is there a valid Goodreads rule to remove the series, or a way to move it to the Russian editions only?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

There is no way to have a series apply to only some editions of a work. In fact, if that is true, it is evidence of not being a series by the Goodreads definition.

Series removed.

[ImaginaryVoices]

Hi! please remove this one, it is clearly not a series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/291059

Thanks.

[Suzi]

Thefishwhosoldtheocean wrote: "Hi! please remove this one, it is clearly not a series:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/291059

Thanks."

done

[Suzi]

C. wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/series/1447... theme of choose your own adventure but not a series by GRs standards"

done

[Suzi]

this looks like a Listopia candidate - but it's a pretty longstanding series. I'll move it to Listopia, if no one has objections. It's not a series.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/6392...

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Suzi wrote: "this looks like a Listopia candidate - but it's a pretty longstanding series. I'll move it to Listopia, if no one has objections. It's not a series.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/6392......"

Yes not a series by GR standards.

[Suzi]

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Suzi wrote: "this looks like a Listopia candidate - but it's a pretty longstanding series. I'll move it to Listopia, if no one has objections. It's not a series.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/6..."

I'll migrate to Listopia while waiting on Arabian Nights/anonymous access lol

[Suzi]

Suzi wrote: "Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Suzi wrote: "this looks like a Listopia candidate - but it's a pretty longstanding series. I'll move it to Listopia, if no one has objections. It's not a series.

htt..."

the more I look at it, seems pointless to even make it Listopia. They all have Nebula Awards in the title.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Im on my phone but Nebula Awards are listed in the awards section. I don't know how complete they are though.