Kindle adds series

[JBaby]

As far as I can tell the series feature only works with books that are whole numbers. If the number contains a decimal you’re SOL. I’d like to be proven wrong though.

So for now the feature is only good at cleaning up my library on the device. I can’t rely on it reading order. I’m sticking Goodreads and authors websites for that info.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JBaby

As far as I can tell the series feature only works with books that are whole numbers. If the number contains a decimal you’re SOL. I’d like to be proven wrong though.

So for now the feature is only good at cleaning up my library on the device. I can’t rely on it reading order. I’m sticking Goodreads and authors websites for that info.

If the eBook is side loaded, you are also SOL.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by JBaby

As far as I can tell the series feature only works with books that are whole numbers. If the number contains a decimal you’re SOL. I’d like to be proven wrong though.

So for now the feature is only good at cleaning up my library on the device. I can’t rely on it reading order. I’m sticking Goodreads and authors websites for that info.

What specific series has this issue? And what do you mean by it ‘not working’?

I don’t have any of the books, but for example I think The Witcher series has #0.5 and #0.6 and #0.7 in addition to #1, #2 etc. but Kindle Store organizes as ‘The Witcher Book’ and also ‘The Witcher Saga Novels’, each with its own numbers (the ‘prequels’ came out later). It seems if more prequels come out they’ll have to rename everything in the series, which seems silly.

(It seems Samples for series books are not organized into a Series. Seems this would be useful to sell more books and convenient for would be readers..)

Also: Amazon does not determine the series order. That’s up to the publisher (unless they haven’t bothered to specify one). I doubt it depends on what might be in the title or having whole numbers.