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Entering Special Kinds of Books

Most books can be easily entered following the instructions in Entering Data for a Book. But for some books, it may not be obvious how they should be entered. The types explained here are: omnibuses; anthologies and collections; fix-ups and mosaic novels; and books with dos-à-dos bindings.

Omnibuses

An omnibus is a book that contains the text of two or more books. Note that an omnibus should not be treated as an edition of the books it contains, but as its own book with one or more editions.

The Raymond Chandler Omnibus is an example of an omnibus of four novels that also contains an introduction.

To enter the contents of an omnibus:

To record that a specific book has been collected in an omnibus:

The page numbers for some omnibuses are not continuous, but instead may start over at 1 for each book. To reflect this in the "page number" property, enter the highest number for each page range in the "numbered pages" column.

Anthologies and Collections

Instructions for entering these types of book can be found in Entering the Contents of a Book or Periodical.

Fix-ups and Mosaic Novels

A "fix-up" is a novel that is composed of two or more previously-published short stories in which the stories have been blended together so that the text reads like a novel, rather than a collection. (This is sometimes accomplished by adding linking material between the stories, making revisions in the text of the stories, or sometimes just by treating the stories as individual chapters.) The term "mosaic novel" is sometimes used in this sense, but can also refer to a collection of distinct stories that are intended to be read as parts of a whole narrative.

Fix-ups should be entered the same way as all books, but to indicate that it was adapted from several stories, you can add the Adaptation type to the book:

  • This will add the property "adapted from" to the topic

  • Enter the titles of the stories that the book is composed of

  • If the stories are already in Freebase, and are typed as stories, you are done

  • If not, please click the titles of each story, and add the type Short Story. You can add author and other publication data as well at this point.

A mosaic novel in which the individual stories have been kept distinct can be entered the same way as a collection or anthology (see above); however, if none of the stories have been published separately, it can also just be entered like any other book, without bothering to enter the contents.

Return to the Stars is an example of a novel that is a fix-up of four short stories.

Dos-à-dos Books (e.g., Ace Doubles)

A dos-à-dos book is one that contains two books or stories, printed back-to-back, such that the book has two front covers, each upside-down to the other.

  • The name of the topic should be the titles of both works, separated by a slash (/), e.g., Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights. Due to the nature of the publication, the order in the title does not matter.

  • The authors of both works should be entered in the "author" property.

  • The contents and pagination of the book should otherwise be entered the same way as for an omnibus (see above). (Remember, however, that there may be two cover artists!)

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