Change both books to primary

[Emy]

Edited. There is a somewhat confusing note left on the page, but without further explanation, a full number book (i.e. NOT #0) should be Primary.

[Cassandra]

Emy wrote: "Edited. There is a somewhat confusing note left on the page, but without further explanation, a full number book (i.e. NOT #0) should be Primary."

I think the confusing note is from a previous series numbering that's been changed. The Rules of Magic is actually a prequel, and had originally been numbered 0, which as a prequel wouldn't receive a primary work designation within the series. I'm not sure why it's now numbered 1 in the series.

[Emy]

Hard to tell what happened - unfortunately the Series logs are pretty vague and it doesn't show us what happened when, only who edited something.

Is it better to have as 0 and 1 (with a BIG note in the general Notes field), or leave as 1 and 2? I'm torn because usually when there's a 0, there are more books in the series so that it's obvious it's a prequel novel. Here, because there are (currently?) only the two works, it LOOKS like an error.

[Cassandra]

Emy wrote: "Hard to tell what happened - unfortunately the Series logs are pretty vague and it doesn't show us what happened when, only who edited something.

Is it better to have as 0 and 1 (with a BIG note i..."

I'm not sure either. The change log for the actual book shows the "0" designation being changed/removed; it's pretty obviously a prequel, and it was published after Practical Magic. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to designate it as number 1 when it's not, but that's just me.

[Scott]

IMO Practical Magic should be no. 1. It was published over twenty years before the second book!

[Arenda]

Why not remove the numbering, and explain the newest book being kind of a prequel to the other in the series description.

[Cassandra]

Arenda wrote: "Why not remove the numbering, and explain the newest book being kind of a prequel to the other in the series description."

That solution makes sense to me.

[Scott]

Actually I think Star Wars did have "Episode IV" in the titles.

[Philip]

Corinne wrote: "For consideration... If we compare to the Star Wars movies, the older versions are called 4, 5, 6 and the newer ones 1, 2, 3. I assume when the came out they were 1, 2, 3 but they were renumbered."

Actually no, the original movies came out as 4,5,6 right from the beginning.