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What do the books have in common that makes them a series? On Goodreads a series needs to have characters or settings in common. If it is only a theme, it is most likely an imprint.A series can be created without numbering. Indeed just leave the 'numbered' unchecked.
The author called it a series. They are romance books with each volume focus on a different pairing, but they are setting all in the same town:it is a self publisher, so i don't think it is an imprint?
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Miss Pageturner wrote: "it is a self publisher"
Neither of these make it a series by Goodreads policy.
Miss Pageturner wrote: "but they are setting all in the same town"
But this might. Is it a real town or one the author invented? The former (say, all set in Seattle) would not be. The latter probably is.
rivka wrote: "Miss Pageturner wrote: "The author called it a series."Miss Pageturner wrote: "it is a self publisher"
Neither of these make it a series by Goodreads policy.
Miss Pageturner wrote: "but they a..."
it is a invented one. I think some of the town residents show up in many volumes, it is the couple which story is told, which change from volume to volume. I think like the Black Dagger Series by J.R. Ward? It is just, that there is no real timeline so it doesn't matter in which order you read the volumes
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I would like to create a series page for a series. This series consists of about 50 individual, self-contained e-books that can be read completely independently of each other and in any order. Therefore, there are no official volume numbers. Can I create a series without numbering? I see that I can uncheck "numbered", but is that ok? In the manual it only says how to number, not whether you are allowed to skip the numbering.
(I'm still quite new as a librarian and don't want to do anything wrong, so I'm sorry if the answer to the question is obvious.)
Thanks for your help =)