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Actually, I had no idea this site even existed, but yeah I guess I do. It seems to do what I want it to, and I'll probably use it actually.

I still think I could improve on the interface and make it more to my taste though, so I'll continue on with my project.

As for why you were downvoted, your post comes off as moderately hostile/negative and would probably have been received better had you put it differently.

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You are correct about the downvoting should have just mentioned fictfact meets most of your requirements . Btw fictfact is limited to series only so if you like a particular author unless they release another book as part of series you won't be notified about it. I think the biggest problem is that series information is not part of the standard metadata for books so you can not get information from isbndb etc. And have to manually curate it. Amazon has added series metadata to its listings but they usually don't have short stories and where they belong in the series. So I would recommend giving the ability to add books to a series to users etc to your app or website. With fictfact as the number of books and series has increased the people maintaining it need crowdsourced help in adding new books and series.

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