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October 03, 2008 15:17

With serial number within the series I am regularly in doubt. Do you enter the sequence number of the series (for example Adam 1) or do you enter the sequence number within the collection? (Happy flight 7)? An additional problem here is that many collections (Happy flight, Free flight, Rebels…) do not have consecutive numbering, so you cannot know exactly which serial number should be assigned within such a collection. Unless you peek into the thick Matla, but that is of course not allowed officially. Opinions ?!

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October 03, 2008 15:28

Yes, this is a problem that also concerns me. I know Peter Bonte's premise was to take the song that is actually on the album or that actually occupies it in a sequence. So that's the number in the album series. The 5 Doc Silver albums, which appeared in the Young Europe Collection series, are therefore numbered 54, 58, 72, 80 and 96.
Perhaps the solution is to work with 2 numbers. The most important song is then the song in the album series, as it is now also intended. In addition, we could introduce a number to indicate the sequence within the series. I'm not sure what we should call that number. But with that you could still number Doc Silver nr 1 to 5.
Something related to this is of course the story number (V number for long stories and K number for short stories). Only that is precisely intended to number the stories in chronological order and not to number the albums logically.
In short, a complex problem. Who has the solution?

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October 03, 2008 15:40

Story numbers are completely separate from this in my opinion and can be entered in the way that currently exists. It will only have to be agreed when a story is short (K) and when long (V). I always use the guideline that I use V for stories of 22 pages (half album) or more.
A double album track would be a godsend, but I also see complications looming there. Tricky.

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October 03, 2008 15:46

Tricky problem indeed.
In any case, that seems like a good deal to me. V-No for 22 pages or more.
I'll add that to the Story Numbers input field.
By the way, a suggestion has also been made to add the Number of pages field. What do you think about that?

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I assume that is what you mean "Number of pages in the stories at the bottom"? That sounds wonderful to me. I myself have been in doubt whether I would put that in brackets after the story number, but in the end I did not because I hope that there would be a fixed field for that in the long term.
"Number of pages at album level", so for example 48, 56, or 64 seems a bit too much to me. If there is an album in two editions with a different number of pages (I just think of a Brer Rabbit album) you can indicate that in the description of the revised edition, I think.

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It was not specified, but it seems to me the most logical that you can indicate the number of pages per story. Will also be fun later, if you can also click on a story and see all the places where it occurs, see any differences in length. Consider, for example, the different versions of De Zwarte Rotsen.
In some cases it could also be interesting at album level, for example if additional background information is included or not.

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I ran into this problem with Merlin "Ham and Tartijn". those albums have been translated in a different order than the original chronology was.
I have given the song that the publisher uses in his own catalog and added as a comment:
“Album has been released as the third Dutch-language album, but is the first in the original series”
this is of course a little standardized solution but clear I think.

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October 03, 2008 23:16

I'm not sure what we should call that number. But with that you could still number Doc Silver nr 1 to 5.
Serial number and Serial number?

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October 04, 2008 11:39

The problem is that people do have such a one-shot in that place in their cupboard. I have created an album series "One-time releases" that can include the kind of books that cannot be assigned to an existing sub-series. As an example, see Agent 327, which I took care of yesterday evening / tonight. We should not want series / hero to be labeled "One-time release". One-shots will then simply keep their full name in the series overviews.

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