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Book & Author Page Issues > Issues with series in title itself for a few books

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message 1: by Megan (new)

Megan (dreizehn) | 1 comments Hello,

This is a small thing, but it is annoying me, and I cannot seem to fix it. The following books actually have the series name in the title, so it reads like this: The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) (The Lord of the Rings #1)

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...


message 2: by Paula (new)

Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments Got them, for some reason having a space at the end of the title causes this havoc :)


Experiment BL626 | 358 comments Paula wrote: "Got them, for some reason having a space at the end of the title causes this havoc :)"

I think it's intentional that way because some books contain "()" as part of their title and adding a space will make it up show it properly and not have Goodreads confused the words in parentheses as a series' title.


message 4: by Paula (new)

Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments It is not intentional it makes the series info display twice which is incorrect


message 5: by Peter (new)

Peter (pete_c) | 388 comments Paula wrote: "It is not intentional it makes the series info display twice which is incorrect"

I think what Experiment was trying to say is that the feature of having a trailing space indicate that the thing in parentheses is not a series name but is a part of the title. No trailing space means the parentheses indicate a series.

I believe he was also trying to say there there needs to be a mechanism that would allow for titles that include parentheses as part of the title, and this is it.

Example title where this would be needed:
Everything you wanted to know about sex (but were afraid to ask).


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