Amazon whine

[jack]

I finally accepted that I'm going to buy the entire series, but not today, so it's worth ordering from amazon.

Though, in the interests of wailing against the universe, couldn't there be some universal system of relating books to prevent having to hunt around to establish what's the same? I mean, everyone has a big database of ISBNs that identify books, couldn't there be some record of which books R what book, where R is:

* In the same series
* Later in the same series in publishing order
* Later in the series in internal chronology (more or less, obviously nested books and circular series need arbitrary decision)
* A revision of
* Contains
* A different edition of

Maybe there should be a big website[1]. Maybe there is?

[1] If it was fan-created, it could include "is universally agreed to be better than" and "owned by in your area" :)

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[mair_in_grenderich]

series of ... ?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Miles Vorkosigan, by LM Bujold. I read them all borrowed from a friend, but liked them enough I wanted to own them. Except it's all rather more complicated because several of them don't seem to have appeared the uk yet, and some have been amalgamated into omnibi[1].

[1] Joke.