Counting collections/anthologies volumes as more than one book | Requests/Ideas

Option to count large books that are a collection of series as multiple books towards the yearly reading challenge. For example, Douglas Adam’s ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide - A Trilogy in Five Parts’ could be counted as 5 books instead of 1

Update by Nadia (7th Sep 24): Updated title to make the ask clearer

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Counting collection volumes as more than one book A challenge could consider a novel complete even if the user read it as part of an omnibus

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cilie

Jul 31, 2025

Don't even care about the book count - I just want to be able to read one novel of a 3 novel bind-up without having to DNF or find another addition with the same number of pages. e.g. I have an "of mice and men/the pearl" bind-up - I have read M&M 4 or 5 times and the pearl 2 times.

mucho_maas

Jul 28, 2025

This would be super helpful especially for editions like those issued by Library of America for authors like Faulkner, Didion, PKD (for example).

weepy_iskwew

Jul 21, 2024

Yes! I bought a couple "Complete Collection of X" e-books when they went on sale and have been putting them off in favour of books where my effort will be better reflected in my reading goal.

callmebear

Apr 7, 2022

Yes to all of this! I have the ebook of The Last Lion - it's a three volume Winston Churchill biography. Each volume is around 1,000 pages, so the ebook is 3,000 pages and is counted as one book!

grogu_djarin

Mar 10, 2021

It would also be nice if we could individually review each book in the collection rather than the collection as a whole and then that group of reviews would be averaged for the collection as a whole.

knkoch

Mar 4, 2021

Yes, I encountered this reading the 'Aya' series. Six individual comics were bundled into 2 collections.