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Should anthologies be included in an author's series?
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The header note for that series can easily be modified. As for the inclusion of anthologies, I tend to disagree with you. As a reader, I find the series pages extremely helpful for trying to figure out where short stories fit chronologically, especially if they're in anthologies (whose book descriptions rarely go into such detail). Furthermore, it's extremely helpful to know that anthology A contains the same story as in anthology B (e.g., Alpha & Omega), or as ebook-published short story C (e.g., Guild Hunter). Goodreads is often the only credible, authoritative source for such info, especially for less popular series that don't have a large fan-base willing to make wikis devoted to the subject.
Fair enough, thanks for responding. I guess a "series" may vary in definition from reader to reader.
A group of authors (including me) wrote one chapter of a round robin, and the finished story is offered free to promote the publisher's visibility. Now those three short stories are listed as my work. The ratings are mediocre, and bring down my overall personal Goodreads rating. Seems a little unreasonable, since I did not have control over anything other than my segment in each story. I would like to have "Lightning Strikes", "After the Storm", and "A Blizzard Wedding" deleted from my repertoire if possible.
did you write them? if yes, and the book is freely available - it should stay...ETA - books that have 150+ ratings...I would value those books ratings more than books that has less than 10 reviews - personally...
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I totally agree with Z-Squared re the definitive lists of books to be included in series.
Isn't this the reason why we have a distinction between primary works in a series and other works?
Although now that I'm looking at it, it doesn't look like primary works are distinguished in any way on the series page itself. It just says "73 works, 54 primary works" or whatever, at the top.
Sophie you are correct, you can't see which works are primary in the listing.
Some kind of indicator would be a good idea, an asterisk or something.
Why? I don't understand what use that would have. All primary works are full numbers and their covers show up in the list.
I think I might just sidestep the issue by creating a Listopia entry for just the primary works in the series.
Rick, a personal Listopia sounds like a good idea.I also agree with Z-squared's statements, as to why all those short stories, etc should be listed in a series.
As for primary works, when I looked at the page just now, it says "44 works, 17 primary works". So that looks correct now, not sure if a librarian corrected it after the post on this thread, it has been several days...
I think it may have been correct all along but I just never knew to look for those numbers.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4034...
There are a lot of the shorter works like 0.2, 5.5 and 10.3 which I can understand. My question to the group is should anthologies which contain a story set in the series be included in the series page?
My opinion is that they should not be included, instead there should be a List created to include all related books. In this case a Harry Dresden list would contain all 44 of these books but IMO there should only be around 25 books in the actual series page.
I am curious as to what other people think about this scenario. As an added twist in the particular case the text at the top of the series page states "Note: Each book is its own story with a start and an ending. However, they should be read in order, as each one references previous books heavily." but the fifth book is an anthology from 2012 yet the next entry in the list is from 2001. If a librarian put that anthology in that position on the list intentionally because the Dresden story in it falls there chronologically in the storyline I would have liked to have seen that made more clear in the header note.