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Different books categorized as a different edition #3440

Open Const4ntin3 opened 1 month ago

Const4ntin3 commented 1 month ago

Different volumes from a series are categorized as different versions instead as seperate books. here is an example: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1064869/s/id

where volume 1, 2 and 3 are listed as different versions of volume 1.

Yet, it seems there is no possibility to mark this as erronous, to fix that by turning these books into new books or just to simply delete them ...

Maybe it's user error form my site where I do not see an option on how to fix that.

hughrun commented 1 month ago

@Const4ntin3 do you know how these are being added?

When I look at these I see that they mostly have "ID" as the title, and the same authors. This partially explains why they are collected together as editions of the same book, though without identical titles I don't think it's expected to happen automatically.

I'm not familiar with this series so I'm not sure whether "Invaded" is a sub-series of "ID" and Brake-Broken is a sub-series of "Invaded" - or some other combination - but I guess BookWyrm, like most other book-related software, doesn't deal well with sub-series so you may need to be creative.

This looks like it is essentially a serial like a magazine rather than a series of books with their own titles? That's going to be tricky to manage the way we're currently set up (see #1607, #2375). To differentiate these out into separate books they are likely going to need unique titles, and each one needs the series listed in order to make them all appear in any series lookup.