Omnibus /box set books - Page 3

FizzyWater · 05-27-2016, 04:13 PM

I like the idea of omnibuses, but often not the execution of them.

Penquin put out a number of omnibuses (or is that omnibusi?) of books in series, but then didn't include them in the edition in series order. Drove me bleeding crazy!

GeoffR · 05-27-2016, 05:24 PM

For novels I prefer to buy the individual ebooks, but with some older books an omnibus is the only available option. For shorter works I prefer single-author collections.

I might buy an omnibus instead of the individual ebooks if the omnibus is a lot cheaper, but I am a bit wary because the omnibus version is often just a crude merging of individual books* with incompatible styles rather than a properly constructed ebook in its own right.

* Edit: This can make it simple to split them up into individual books again though.

05-27-2016, 05:24 PM	#32
GeoffR Wizard Posts: 3,821 Karma: 19162882 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Te Riu-a-Māui Device: Kobo Glo	For novels I prefer to buy the individual ebooks, but with some older books an omnibus is the only available option. For shorter works I prefer single-author collections. I might buy an omnibus instead of the individual ebooks if the omnibus is a lot cheaper, but I am a bit wary because the omnibus version is often just a crude merging of individual books* with incompatible styles rather than a properly constructed ebook in its own right. * Edit: This can make it simple to split them up into individual books again though. Last edited by GeoffR; 05-27-2016 at 05:50 PM.

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05-27-2016, 04:13 PM	#31
FizzyWater You kids get off my lawn! Posts: 4,220 Karma: 73492664 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Device: Oasis 2 and Libra H2O and half a dozen older models I can't let go of	I like the idea of omnibuses, but often not the execution of them. Penquin put out a number of omnibuses (or is that omnibusi?) of books in series, but then didn't include them in the edition in series order. Drove me bleeding crazy!

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