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Old 03-03-2014, 09:45 AM   #2562
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
Katsunami, congrats on your Forgotten Realmscollection!! I've never read any of those, but I'm sure it feels great to have such a large collection so close to complete.
Thanks

Forgotten Realms is to Fantasy what Harlequin is to Romance: a bazillion books a year It's not great literature (apart from some gems in a sea of glass, here and there), but it's a guilty indulgence

A breakdown, if someone's interested:

Spoiler:


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On ebooks:

Still, it's confusing. The list at the FR Wiki I've been using is missing at least 3 books. I know that for sure, because they are on my wishlist, and they were still there after I exhausted the Wiki.

I went looking for those three books and bought them. They're available, but now there's also a re-edited version, that folds the trilogy into one book. (Not an omnibus with three books in it: it's one book now, in 6 parts, with 83 chapters.) So, in buying one book, I can cross out three on the wishlist.

Now I'll go and check my library against the FR Novels Wikipedia page, and I hope that it's complete now. The books that are left, SHOULD all coincide with my list of paper-only books.

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On paper books:

To complicate thngs further:

There are 24 books that are only in paper, of which:
--- 17 are anthologies, stand-alone.
--- 6 books are novels, mostly part of a series
--- 1 is an anthology AND a novel (short stories by several authors, that create one cohesive story), being the FIRST in a series of 7 books

Of these 24 books, I have 3.

Conclusion: Assuming my ebooks are complete, and this list of paper books is complete as well, I still need to get 21 books. (Which, in the future, will hopefully be available as ebooks as well.)

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On counting:

I now have 255 ebooks (counting the "trilogy that is now one book" as three), there are 24 paper books, which creates a canon of 279 books.

There's a Torrent floating around (with mostly very old, crappy OCR-ed versions) that claims to hold 295 books.

So... Are the lists I'm using not complete, or is this Torrent including books that are not part of the official canon?





I think I'll just stop reading Fantasy and switch over to Harlequin Romance

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