Dear publisher:

Thank you so much for issuing your ginormous mega-hit book in an audiobook form. Creating a 41 disc set might be a daunting task for many a publishers, but you charged ahead and did it anyway.

Just...next time? Could you maybe follow the natural splits in the texts in designing the discs?

"Book 1" is starts on Disc 1.

Good. However.

"Book 1" ends on Disc 14, Track 6.

Um?

"Book 2" begins on Disc 14, Track 7.

WTF?

"Book 2" ends on Disc 26, Track 3.

SRSLY?

"Book 3" begins on Disc 26, Track 4.

Brilliant.

"Book 3" ends at the end of Disc 41.

Ugh.

See, here's the problem:

41 discs = multiple packages. There's no container big enough to hold all 41 in the same box. Hell, my dear publisher, you didn't even SELL it in one container.

Multiple packages = multiple parts to check out. So, Person A checks out Box 1, and has "Book 1" + first 8 tracks of "Book 2".

But Person B, not paying attention & not realizing that the title is split into boxes, checks out Box 2. They get "Book 2" minus the first 8 tracks, but plus the first 3 tracks of "Book 3".

Really? You couldn't just add another disc or two and split the entire book onto three sets following the text???

"Book 1" on discs 1-14

"Book 2" on discs 15-27

"Book 3" on discs 28-42.

Was that so difficult there?

Then again, I'm not a big name publisher in some shiny skyscraper in New York. I'm just the reference librarian who has to make sense of this bizarre system and explain it to confused customers. Day...after day...after day.

Good thing I'm not bitter!