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Originally Posted by NatCh
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NatCh, you are always contrary, that's what we love about you.
If possible I would rather have the omnibus editions.
There are times; however, when the single volumes are the way to go. An example of this is the Arsene Luprin series where I have found less than one-half of the twenty volumes published by Maurice LeBlanc. Since I was missing so many volumes (as is Project Gutenberg) and I did not know the exact sequence of the books when I started, it made no sense to put them in a single volume.
Others, like the H. Rider Haggard Anthologies make perfect sense. Dickens would be far too large if packed into a single volume. We have to remember that some people are still downloading via modems and dial-up connections.
Omnibus editions like the Sherlock Holmes collection could be offered either in published sequence (I have one hardbound set that way) or in the order they are believed to have happened (I have another in that order.) When I did straight through reading in the latter I was sometimes bothered by the unevenness of the writing as Doyle's writing style evolved over the years and when they are put back-to-back it can be a bit jarring.