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Fat Abe · 01-20-2023, 09:45 AM

Any librarians in the house? There must be a database of ebooks that the libraries use to decide what to order and when to order it. Did they never graduate from the old Dewey Decimal system on index cards? Google spent millions of dollars scanning most of the published books they could locate. Where's the meta-data in one flat file?
There are a handful of books in the 87th Precinct series that were published in the same year. Amazon and other web sites seem to have these books in swapped order. There has to be a more definitive method of getting the plot order correct. For those who ignore plot order, there are series like the November Man and Matthew Scudder novels where the authors describe acts that can be considered to be spoilers if one reads the books in non-chronological publication order.

01-20-2023, 09:45 AM	#15
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,826 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Any librarians in the house? There must be a database of ebooks that the libraries use to decide what to order and when to order it. Did they never graduate from the old Dewey Decimal system on index cards? Google spent millions of dollars scanning most of the published books they could locate. Where's the meta-data in one flat file? There are a handful of books in the 87th Precinct series that were published in the same year. Amazon and other web sites seem to have these books in swapped order. There has to be a more definitive method of getting the plot order correct. For those who ignore plot order, there are series like the November Man and Matthew Scudder novels where the authors describe acts that can be considered to be spoilers if one reads the books in non-chronological publication order.