About the "Short Fiction" name

[Klaus Weidner]

Hello - I just recently encountered this project and am looking forward to adding a selection of classics to my ereader. When browsing the collection, I was a bit surprised to see a lot of books all named "Short Fiction", for example four of them on this page. While this is of course correct and descriptive, I think it's not the most user friendly, especially when browsing covers where the author name is much smaller than the title.

I was wondering if you had considered using a naming scheme such as "[X] and other stories" (where [X] is a well known sample) to give them a bit more individuality?

Apologies if this is a long settled debate, and I assume there may well be technical (name length?) or other issues that would make this infeasible, so this is more of a point of curiosity.

[Alex Cabal]

No, the name is generic on purpose. If we named them after a story,
someone would very soon send an email asking us to name it after a
different story, or perhaps use some other scheme...

On 7/14/26 7:19 PM, Klaus Weidner wrote:
> Hello - I just recently encountered this project and am looking forward
> to adding a selection of classics to my ereader. When browsing the
> collection, I was a bit surprised to see a lot of books all named "Short

> Fiction", for example four of them on this page <https://
> standardebooks.org/subjects/science-fiction?
> page=4&sort=popularity>. While this is of course correct and

> descriptive, I think it's not the most user friendly, especially when
> browsing covers where the author name is much smaller than the title.
>
> I was wondering if you had considered using a naming scheme such as "[X]
> and other stories" (where [X] is a well known sample) to give them a bit
> more individuality?
>
> Apologies if this is a long settled debate, and I assume there may well
> be technical (name length?) or other issues that would make this
> infeasible, so this is more of a point of curiosity.
>

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[Klaus Weidner]

Ah, you mean emails like the one I just sent? Fair enough. ;-)

I guess I can always edit the title in Calibre for my personal use if I feel strongly about it.

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