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Originally Posted by KevinH
I very much doubt there is a much of a need to support multiple series for the exact same rendition of an ebook.
Please cite multiple examples of a specific epub2 ebooks that are in two or more "series" at the same time. Please remember the ebook text in question must not be a later revised text use in a later series. Also note, that a specific ebook text can be parts of different collections but this is not the same as being parts of different series at the same time. Having a series change its name over time is not the same thing either.
I would be interested to see just how pervasive the need to support multiple "series" for a specific rendition of a text really is.
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It's not uncommon in the case of sub-series. Raymond Feist's
Shadow of a Dark Queen is the first of four books in the
Serpentwar Saga, and is also the 9th book in the
Riftwar series. Gabaldon's
Lord John Gray and
Outlander are similar, as are the various
Pern books by Anne McCaffrey (e.g the
Harper Hall of Pern series relative to the overall series). You can use hierarchies to work around this pretty well.
But it also happens a fair bit with anthologies. The
Warriors collection contains stories from both George R.R. Martin's
A Song of Ice and Fire series and the aforementioned
Outlander. It'd be nice to flag it as both for when you're doing a read-through of one series or the other.
And then there are cases where a single book is actually in multiple universes; Asimov had a bunch of later books that are both
Robot and
Foundation novels. Michael Connelly's
The Reversal is a
Harry Bosch book and a
Mickey Haller book.
It makes sense that Kovid is reluctant to implement something, because the semantics are unclear (what happens when you sort on series if there are more than one?)