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1uss.scissorfish
Jul. 22, 2020, 10:46 pm

I tried to search for similar questions but I'm not sure I'm even using the search right. Basically I'm trying to pull up a series directory(?) or search books by tag and then sort them by average user rating. For example, show me all Star Trek books and sort and show ratings on each one. Is this possible?

2SandraArdnas
Bearbeitet: Jul. 22, 2020, 11:17 pm

Within your own library, yes. If you use tags for series, just search for the tag and sort by average rating either from menu, or by clicking on the column if it's included in your currently used view of your database. If not tags, searching by 'most fields' should still bring up the series books you have catalogued

Site-wide, for books not in your catalogue, search results will lead you to a series page, which includes average rating for the entire series, but not for individual works

3uss.scissorfish
Jul. 23, 2020, 1:07 am

Ah bummer, site-wide is what I was hoping. Thanks

4SandraArdnas
Bearbeitet: Jul. 23, 2020, 1:30 am

If you find a member with the entire series in their catalogue, I assume you can search their catalogue in the same way you'd do your own, thus achieving what you seek. It should be easy enough for relatively limited series, but perhaps not for sprawling ones with hundreds of titles. (On series pages, there's a list of members with the most works in a series at the bottom of the page)

5gilroy
Jul. 23, 2020, 5:38 am

Ratings here are not what you might think.
Some people use them for shelf position.
Others use 1 star for good and 5 stars for bad.

Ratings are very individualized and having the average is nice, but the reviews tend to tell more.

6uss.scissorfish
Jul. 23, 2020, 11:16 am

I see, I had hoped they'd at least give a general consensus of which books in a large series (like the Star Trek example) would be more highly regarded than others in the series. It's too bad because the data is here on the site, just not accessible in the way I'd like. But yes thanks also for the "find a member" suggestion, I think I found what I assume are library-type users who have a large chunk of them in their collection.