07-26-2011, 08:14 PM | #1 |
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Please no more omnibus edition and de-omnibusing the ones we have
I've just found out that Goodreads treats an Omnibus edition as one book. This is not good. So can we say no more omnibus editions since that just makes a mess on sites that are used to track reading?
Also, can the people who made the omnibus editions please unmake them? |
07-26-2011, 08:27 PM | #2 |
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I like omnibus editions; I don't want to wade through half a dozen to a couple-dozen books of an author on my e-reader. How Goodreads treats them is not my concern. People who don't like Goodread's treatment of omni editions are free to avoid those reviews.
If Goodreads doesn't have an effective way of dealing with omnis, the best solution isn't "make those editions go away." Pester Goodreads to change their tracking methods, not authors and editors to change the editions--which match how many readers want to read them. |
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07-26-2011, 08:46 PM | #3 |
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I to dislike the type of omnibus editions that have been posted here lately. I much prefer individual books and, in general, prefer individual short stories.
When a classic book was originally published as a collection (e.g. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes) its appropriate to create a matching ebook collection. But when the works were originally standalone books I see no purpose for collecting them in a single ebook. |
07-26-2011, 09:10 PM | #4 |
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Or just track each book you read individually. I doubt that the good folk at Goodreads really care if you read them separately or as part of an omnibus.
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I don't think it's only GoodReads that has an issue with omnibus editions. But I cannot be sure of that.
But this other issue is that I actually don't like them. I prefer the books to be individual if that's how they were originally released. |
07-26-2011, 10:15 PM | #8 |
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Download the book as epubs. Install Sigil. Break the omnibus into individual books. Everybody's happy.
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07-26-2011, 11:00 PM | #9 |
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So just because *you* don't like them, they shouldn't be allowed? Wow.
I like them, personally. I have so many ebooks, I find it easier to have something like the Sherlock Holmes series all in one book so that I have fewer titles to keep track of. I don't really care about Goodreads, so that is not an issue for me, but if you do care, it seems like it would be easy enough to just enter it as an individual book using another edition. And if you do want individual books, you can break them up yourself or download them through Project Gutenberg. So, why deprive others of the omnibus books just because you yourself don't want them? |
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08-06-2011, 01:26 AM | #12 |
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I prefer to read omnibuses in certain cases, like Doyle (Holmes), Doyle (notHolmes), Shakespeare (plays), Shakespeare (poetry). For most authors I keep both in my library when I can find them. For me the separates (individual stand-alone books/elements) are better for tagging/id/research purposes while the omnibuses are more convenient to read in ebook form if it's formatted well enough with links to elements and element chapters. (HarryT's were good, I thought.)
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08-09-2011, 12:59 PM | #13 |
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+1 pro omnis
they keep books meant to be read "cover to cover" a nice single entry w/o cluttering your filelist. the decision how a book was once splitted ( as a paper ed.) wasn't only content- but printing-/binding-dependent too. best example as known to me: the dragonbone throne series by tad williams I was astonished finding out that the english ed is 3 books, since the german is 4. Addendum: I read (and reread) because I want to read, and not count, I give a damn ST whose ehm... shelf is longer or shorter than mine so +1 to HarryT Last edited by Freeshadow; 08-09-2011 at 01:04 PM. Reason: forgotten sentence |
08-09-2011, 10:51 PM | #14 |
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Well, Book 3 is split into Book 3 part 1 and Book 3 part 2, so there are 4 physical books to buy.
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08-10-2011, 10:21 AM | #15 |
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nope - it looks like a genuine 4 book series - To Green Angel Tower is split and named The Norn Queen and Angel Tower. they gave no indication of splitting.
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