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Originally Posted by ThePage
I beleive that ePubMerge will be more frequently used to combine series books than short-stories. Therefore the term anthology will more often be incorrect for this usage. Where short-stories are being compiled, a collection of secondary likelyhood.
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While that may be your most frequent use, I have no statistics about what is most common over all.
According the
dictionary definition an anthology is "a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music". So while anthology may be less precise than omnibus when merging series, it is not wrong, it is the literal truth. Collection is an even more general word than anthology.
When you are merging books that all have the same Series set in calibre, the title of the merged book will be the series name without the word anthology. And you are always presented with the merged book's metadata to correct and confirm.
I will consider making the word 'Anthology' a configuration option, but primarily because responding to this made me consider that non-English users may want a different word.