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"Amazon has no obvious way to search for a book in a series." With all due respect maybe this is TMI but I've been listening to an audiobook-ish lecture series
by VLM 12y ago
"Amazon has no obvious way to search for a book in a series."
With all due respect maybe this is TMI but I've been listening to an audiobook-ish lecture series about fantasy literature and we've come to the lecture about Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea series so I visit Amazon this morning, search for Earthsea in the kindle store, I get six results presented In Series Order and for each book right underneath the star ratings for each individual book it lists "Book 1 of 6 in the Earthsea Series" So I'm a pretty happy little customer.
For fun I just tried the same search technique for Harry Potter and got the same result. The search results had the books In Series Order with "Book 1 of 7 in the Harry Potter Series" written under the star ratings. Cool.
Amazon is, however, not consistent. I went more obscure and tried "Classics of Buddhism and Zen Thomas Cleary" and got the predictable first 5 results (awesome, because its a five volume translation series) but in book order 1, 4, 2, 3, 5 rather than sequential. Too lazy to research but I'm guessing something related to edition / reprint date.
I did more research and found an even more epic failure, searching for "feynman lectures on physics" in books results in just a tepid random pile of tangentially related books.
- mcguire 12y agoPoke this out of curiosity: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=vlad+taltos&rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Avlad+taltos http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D... I searched for Steven Brust in the Kindle Store and didn't get a very good list, although it mentioned the "Vlad Taltos" series, so I searched for that. I'm currently seeing Book of Dragon as the second entry (which is a collection of part of the series), an unrelated Brust book, and something by Michael McClung.