List of books by publication date
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Not bad, but not exactly in order.
It's in order by each series and then by publication order. Are you looking for all books in publication order regardless of which series they belong to?
Yes, I am looking for publication order regardless of what series.
I suppose you could try Memory Alpha's "production timeline." It can be kind of confusing, as it contains all sorts of information not related to the books. And you'll have to click on each individual year to see when everything happened. But it's the best source I can think of.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Production_timeline
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Production_timeline
Hmm... I thought Steve Roby's Complete Starfleet Library had all the books presented by year of release (and chronologically within each year, too, IIRC). But the original site seems to be gone? There appears to be a blog version, but I can't find the listing of all the titles, and the links that would appear to go it are all dead.
And yet............
Well, there's this:
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/lcars-ALL-DAT.php
But a) it seems to include way more than just the official novels, and b) only goes to 2006.
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/lcars-ALL-DAT.php
But a) it seems to include way more than just the official novels, and b) only goes to 2006.
Thanks, but doesn't actually work. I need the month and year at least. The day would be nice too, but I could do without as long as I know which order the ones published in the same month/year came out.
So how can you get a list of all the Star Trek books from Amazon and it has to be the original publication date. This means the dates of the pBooks that are not eBooks and the eBooks that are not pBooks. I don't see how you can do this at Amazon.
JWolf wants to know if there is a list already existing of all Star Trek books and their publication dates. While manually constructing such a list is certainly possible, it seems reasonable to me to consider that an absolute last resort once all other avenues are exhausted considering that a) this seems like the sort of thing that should already exist somewhere, and b) there are over six hundred Star Trek books by the last count I saw, meaning doing such manually would likely take days off work to assemble.
I mean, it's obvious that that is an option, but it's also obvious that you're potentially wasting a lot of time if it was your first go-to. You don't invest hours of time into something until you've made sure it's necessary to do so. JWolf didn't post this thread because they didn't realize they could do it by hand, they posted it to check if they didn't have to.
I mean, it's obvious that that is an option, but it's also obvious that you're potentially wasting a lot of time if it was your first go-to. You don't invest hours of time into something until you've made sure it's necessary to do so. JWolf didn't post this thread because they didn't realize they could do it by hand, they posted it to check if they didn't have to.
I've been keeping a list in an access database for decades. Actually, I think it started as a "hypercard" stack on my original Fat Mac back in 1984-1985, and I've been updating and converting it over the years.
As of today, it lists 2027 books (fiction, nonfiction, and assorted other oddities, such as coloring books, art portfolios, etc. It has multiple entries for books that have been through multiple editions -- and only includes ebooks that are ebook exclusives). It lists 2052 distinct comic books (including comic collections and omnibuses. That number is very much inflated by IDW's practice of having at least two -- and as many as 26 -- distinctive covers on each issue. Each cover gets its own entry.) Oh, and it also indexes all episodes of all series, and all the movies. That's the second-smallest category, with only 755 entries. The smallest category are audiobooks, where I list 156 (again, the number is inflated by double listings where an particular title was released as both cassettes and CDs. Some of the early titles were issues on vinyl, of course.)
I've been thinking that I need to add calendars as its own category, but that's gonna require a LOT of research.
Now that lots of that content is available in digital formats, I'm slowly, slowly adding hyperlinks to the database, so I can click on anything I have a whim to read/watch, and have it pop up. Kinda fun.
As of today, it lists 2027 books (fiction, nonfiction, and assorted other oddities, such as coloring books, art portfolios, etc. It has multiple entries for books that have been through multiple editions -- and only includes ebooks that are ebook exclusives). It lists 2052 distinct comic books (including comic collections and omnibuses. That number is very much inflated by IDW's practice of having at least two -- and as many as 26 -- distinctive covers on each issue. Each cover gets its own entry.) Oh, and it also indexes all episodes of all series, and all the movies. That's the second-smallest category, with only 755 entries. The smallest category are audiobooks, where I list 156 (again, the number is inflated by double listings where an particular title was released as both cassettes and CDs. Some of the early titles were issues on vinyl, of course.)
I've been thinking that I need to add calendars as its own category, but that's gonna require a LOT of research.
Now that lots of that content is available in digital formats, I'm slowly, slowly adding hyperlinks to the database, so I can click on anything I have a whim to read/watch, and have it pop up. Kinda fun.
Either you misunderstood what I wrote or I didn't make myself clear.
If such a list exists, @JWolf seems to want a list with all the information he wants, now where some books were published in the same month, which to be honest, was a rather limited time nearly twenty years ago, he can cross reference such lists with a site like Amazon which does hold the publication dates (day, month, year)
The list as requested may not exist, flicking through Voyages of the Imagination, that has publication dates for each story, I know that was published ten years ago, but it has the list as requested to a point.
OK.
OK.
It took some doing, but I've researched and compiled a Excel spreadsheet that has the best information I can compile from: Memory Alpha and Beta, Wikipedia, Amazon, Voyages of Imagination and my personal collection. It's got over 700 entries and is both searchable and filterable by date, year, series, format and title.
I just need a place to put it. I'm not savvy on web or cloud stuff, so I'll take suggestions on where and how I can post this behemoth....
Then the OP can have their list, and I can dive into reading some older books I've forgotten about
OK.
It took some doing, but I've researched and compiled a Excel spreadsheet that has the best information I can compile from: Memory Alpha and Beta, Wikipedia, Amazon, Voyages of Imagination and my personal collection. It's got over 700 entries and is both searchable and filterable by date, year, series, format and title.
I just need a place to put it. I'm not savvy on web or cloud stuff, so I'll take suggestions on where and how I can post this behemoth....
Then the OP can have their list, and I can dive into reading some older books I've forgotten about
OK.
OK.
It took some doing, but I've researched and compiled a Excel spreadsheet that has the best information I can compile from: Memory Alpha and Beta, Wikipedia, Amazon, Voyages of Imagination and my personal collection. It's got over 700 entries and is both searchable and filterable by date, year, series, format and title.
I just need a place to put it. I'm not savvy on web or cloud stuff, so I'll take suggestions on where and how I can post this behemoth....
Then the OP can have their list, and I can dive into reading some older books I've forgotten about
Have you got a google account? Upload it to google sheets - if you don't want to share your own account, just set up a new google account and upload it there, make it editable and people can add to the list...
Alternatively if you have a hotmail/outlook account do the same with Office online.
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