This is a product request for a dedicated field for series/titles to be able to crosslink to one another or otherwise be bundled together in some way, specifically for various forms of the same property (light novels/manga/soon-to-be anime + live action, etc), despite having differing difficulty levels and possibly authors, artists, etc.
Possibly also for larger franchise works, e.g. the various Fate franchises, the various Zelda manga etc could live under a larger family umbrella or at least share crosslinkage. But perhaps that is a larger and more unwieldy topic.
Approved! I agree this would be very nice. I personally like how AniList does this with their ‘relations’ - essentially they show related media with an appropriate title (Light Novel / TV Series / Movie Adaptation… etc)
Not sure if this belongs in the same product request, but it’d be great to be able to go from a book’s page in one language to the page in another language. Particularly since Japanese has a lot more gradings and reviews, I often check the Japanese side to have an approximate idea of the level for ?? books, and also to have an idea of the vocab difficulty with the reviews. Currently however, since I don’t speak Japanese, that’s a bit of a hassle, since I have to find the Japanese name of the book first and then copy that.
I definitely think that’s reasonable. I’d also say that I’m happy to make those things a benchmark, so if you find any of those, be sure to message them in the gradings thread!
Right now, yes librarians can add things - simply submit a report and we’ll add it. At somepoint we may have a dedicated submission process but not right now.
And I added the movie series! Although perhaps we should have better ordering.. will fix.
This is awesome! Literally last night I started a French list to match works with the same ones in other languages for benchmarking reference (only got one thing added before I was pulled away though, haha), can I just forward that to a librarian somehow once it’s more mature?
Should it hide translations from languages that aren’t on your account? Or should there be an option to hide them? I don’t really care about the various translations of a book, just their equivalent media between books/manga and movies/shows.
Separately, I think there’s a product request somewhere to link/combine alternative versions of a series in a way that lets them share gradings and a Natively level, but still be tracked separately. Until that is done is it worth linking them using this feature? For example, ご注文はうさぎですか? | L25 and ご注文はうさぎですか? Complete Blend | L28
These are both good thoughts. Yes, I think the main use case will be for what you’re describing - spinoff / related series & adaptations in other forms of media. That’s how things lik AniList primarily uses it and we probably will too. The translation relationships are good for our internal data knowledge and operations, but I think it’s less important for the majority of users. I suspect once we get more data and start to standardize these relations, we’ll be able to prioritize/hide content better.
I thought I’d go ahead and link these while I get used to the tool; for reference, what should I call the Complete Blend series? Is it an omnibus series?
I like the translation relationships being there, because even if it’s not another language I’m learning, I could theoretically compare levels and reviews and such with people reading the same book in other languages.
Do linked books across languages share each others’ tags?
