How about Classic Novels, New Series Novels, Anthologies (to broadly cover the short story collections which would span the classic and new series) and then Torchwood + worlds of Who?
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This could work…
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I’ve been having a look at this and so many things cross over between Classic Series and New Series (e.g. Target Novelisations) so that’s not a great way to separate them actually.
My head hurts lol.
I think what I will do for now, just as a temporary fix and a better version of what we have now, is just have Range options.
So it will be:
Books
Range
- Doctor Who
- The Worlds of Doctor Who
- Torchwood
- Bernice Summerfield
- Sarah Jane Adventures
- Faction Paradox
(Which ones deserver their own range and which can be folded into “Worlds” is another topic altogether)
and then also have
Publisher
BBC Books
BBC Childrens’ Books
Big Finish Productions
etc…
I think that’ll do for now!
Might do the same for comics too!
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OK I’ve updated Books and also Comics to have a better navigation - still not perfect, but at least you can see there are far more available than it looked like before!
Thanks for the help, please carry on making suggestions (I’ve probably left some things out).
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Not too piss on your parade too early but isn’t Doctor Who in Wonderland a Penguin book and therefore, where are the other ones in that range. Wonderland is in the BBC Children’s books section at the moment.
Also, shouldn’t BBC Books include all the NSAs, EDAs, PDAs etc?
You’re doing a great job by the way 
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Really like this new navigation, but as one very minor pedantic thing, the Torchwood Magazine Short Stories are currently counted as comics for ‘Comics by Publisher → Titan Magazines (Torchwood)’
They’re also under torchwood short stories, so that’s fine there, but yeah, need removing from the comics section
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Yeah there’s a bit of confusion of publishers around BBC, Penguin, Puffin, some of that.
We have just taken what was on the Wiki but not sure it was all correct. Will need to be fixed eventually.
Ah ok will fix Torchwood short stories
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One thing I have been wondering about is what is the distinction between Novels and Short Stories? At present, it seems to be somewhat arbitrary. The Time Trips Set is listed under Books (even though they are 50 pages max), but this story is 70 pages and is listed as a short story. What should the rules be? How should we deal with edge cases?
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Yes it’s quite arbitrary.
When I first started adding stuff there was no concept of “Short Stories”.
Now that there is, and people are suggesting what to add, they are sometimes using “Short Stories”.
Do you think I should re-categorise Time Trips?
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I’d say both of the esquivalience stories are novellas, but if I had to categorise novellas as either books or short stories, I’d definitely put them in the book category.
The Telos novellas are classified as books, are they not? Haven’t read a Time Trip. Maybe 50 pages is a good limit?
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I’ve changed them.
Yeah personally I think a “short story” should only be used when it’s one story inside an anthology book.
As I said, I was given those books by someone else. Should have double checked them.
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This and short web-only stories.
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Oh yeah and that too.
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What about the Mr. Men books? They’re usually only ten or so pages long, but they’re still categorised as books, which to me feels odd.
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I don’t think that there is a perfect definition of this. I feel like they are books because they are one story in one book.
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Yeah those are definitely books… it makes sense to me lol
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From Wikipedia:
In terms of length, word count is typically anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 for short stories; however, some works classified as short stories have up to 15,000 words. Stories of fewer than 1,000 words are sometimes referred to as “short short stories”, or “flash fiction”.
Short stories have no set length. What constitutes a short story may differ between genres, countries, eras, and commentators.
Just to clarify: 1,000 words is about 3.5 pages and 15,000 words is roughly 30 pages.
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