Omnibus books and Series

Hi, I recently put my collection into LibraryThing and have been looking at the series system.
It seems amazing, but my one issue is omnibus and series.
For an example, i have every Foundation by Isaac Asimov book, but my first 3 are contained in an omnibus called the The Foundation Trilogy.
When i check the series Foundation - Publication, it only contains the 4 individual ones i have.
It feels like this could be improved using the work relationships feature, as currently that shows that those 3 individual works are contained within the omnibus.
I may be missing a lot as i am very new to this but does anyone have any further guidance on this.
I'm also aware i can add collections to the series but that seems clunky.
Thanks!

>1 d.g.a.: It's just a matter of adding the omnibuses to the series, as they are added in the chronological series page https://www.librarything.com/nseries/79/Foundation-Chronological

These things are done manually by members, so you can go ahead and add them. Or if you don't feel comfortable someone else will help along. If you're up to it, on the series page click Edit Series on the right, then Add to/Organize series and add all omnibuses. Finally, save when done. (Omnibuses and such are not Core series, so you'll want to change that to Collections and Selections, then it shows as 2 distinct groups as in chronological series)

>2 SandraArdnas: Hari Seldon should have foreseen this :-)

Or you can add the individual books to your account in a custom collection 'books I own in omnibii' deselecting them from 'My Library' etc. depending on your personal view about ownership and cataloguing. You will always get better recommendations and statistics from 'owning' the individual titles, because they generally shared with far more people than any omnibus versions.

>4 reading_fox: I don't think that's true. The last time I looked, a lot of older series, esp. pre-LT, have more omnibii in LT than the individual titles.

ETA: "The last time I looked" could be 10 or 20 years ago.

>4 reading_fox: I understood the issue here is the omnibuses do not appear on on the publication order series page at all

I suspect that the omnibus editions are a lot less interesting in the publication order series.

The edit history shows some were in the series previously, but got removed January 21, 2025 by a 1 day old user – maybe unaware they were affecting a shared part of the site.
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/history/74

>1 d.g.a.: You may want to take a look at this thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349171#

>1 d.g.a.: Usually, omnibus editions are put into the 'collections and selections' of a series. It looks as though no-one has done it for that series yet. It has been done for Foundation - Chronological.

>8 Nevov: Oh, that user. A lot of series were affected by them and need to be sorted out again. I'll see if I can take a look at it some time.