[bookshare-discuss] Re: Formatting series titles
- From: "Kyrath. (AKA Rob)" <kyrath@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:31:02 -0400
Hi Tony,
Guido beat me to it, but the method he put forth is the one I have been
using with the Dragonlance books that I have, thus far, submitted.
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-- Rob
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From: "Guido Corona" <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Formatting series titles
> Sorry to step in late in this discussion. Once upon a time we did receive
> direction from Jesse for the naming of books that are part of a series.
> The strongly suggested form is apparently:
> Book Title (Series Title [vol/book/No. X)
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> where the the book title comes first, then there is an open parenthesis,
> then series, then order in the series then finally right parenthesis.
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> Hope this helps.
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> G.
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> Guido D. Corona
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> Tony Baechler
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> At 10:41 PM 6/14/2004 -0700, you wrote:
> >I do not think I made myself clear. When the book is downloaded, it is
> >downloaded or saved when you convert it as Left Behind #12. Therefore,
> >it took me 20 minutes to find it on my own hard drive. As for
> >downloading it, I found it by looking under Tim Lahay, or however his
> >name is spelled. Kurt
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> Hi. I suppose I could have put the series title after the main book
> title,
> but most people seem to not want it that way. There were a few series for
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> teens submitted last November and I thought it looked best to put the
> series title first and apparently the original submitter agreed with
> me. So, in future, which is better?
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> Left Behind 12: Glorious Appearing
> Glorious Appearing (Left Behind 12)
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> or something else entirely? Since in most cases colons and punctuation
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> not part of book titles, I generally put the series title followed by a
> dash or colon. I am currently working on two books which are technically
> part of a series but do not have a specific book number. How should I
> retitle them or should I not worry about it at all?
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