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Old 08-08-2022, 02:40 PM   #254
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Originally Posted by arjaybe View Post
Were they originally called boxed sets, or have they always been called both?
A boxed set or box set is multiple books sold in a box and I have seen both terms used. Theoretically, boxed set would be more correct since box set would be literally a set of boxes.

IRL, I purchased the complete Harry Potter series in paperback as a box set for one of my nieces while the hardcover children's edition I purchased for a nephew was in a fancy box (reminded me of my father's cigar boxes) and was called a boxed set.

By contrast, an omnibus is multiple books combined into a single volume. An example might be when I purchased David Edding's 6 book Belgariad as two hard cover volumes. The old Ace doubles could be considered as a minimal example of an omnibus.

These days, box set/boxed set and omnibus seem have become interchangeable. This is most noticeable with ebooks where omnibus would be the more correct term but box set seems to preferred.
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