Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20151119211902/@comment-24894325-20151228110533

Let me now go through your table to see if we agree. I will strike through things I would categorize differently and explain below

SOTO wrote:


 * The First Doctor: Volume One is for me an anthology with the Companion Chronicles range. The four stories are unrelated to each other (disclaimer: I only listened to one). The common thing is the First Doctor. This is a new format for the Companion Chronicles: what would have been four separate releases before, each with its own companion, is now released as one set of four stories about companions of the same doctor. I could not find it called a "box set" on the BF website, confirming the (anthology) status. There are no individual covers for the stories.
 * All Short Trips are to me anthologies within the Short Trips range. I do not own them. But the way I understand the format (before it was changed to individual releases instead of producing Volume 5), each is a collection of eight stories, one per Doctor. The stories are unrelated, as far as I understand. I don't think there are individual covers for the stories.
 * The Third Doctor Adventures is the first sign that my self-made definition of a box set is not exactly what BF means. (Again I don't own it.) They call this a box set in promotional materials though there seems to be no individual covers. I struck it through because this is not serialised, at least not yet. So far this seems to be two separate stories under one cover. However, the benefit of using (box set) is that it is neutral towards a serialization, unlike (anthology). I propose to dab it (box set) for now, wait whether there will be follow up and, if yes, then turn it into range with individual box set releases. What it would be like will be determined by how it will be released.
 * The Companion Chronicles: The Specials looks like a box set because stories have individual covers. I don't think BF used the term, though some readers used it in the question section of Vortex.
 * The same treatment for Philip Hinchcliffe Presents
 * The Fifth Doctor Box Set is demonstrably a box set. Also has individual covers.