LeadSongDog
@tfmorris Just spitballing here, but as a transitional step, will we not need to have support for both the existing free-form and whatever structured form is chosen?
So then, what happens in the many cases where there's no structured form clearly equivalent to the old free-form? Do we have a catch-all?
Yes. #561 relates. However the part/section/issue/vol.no. should probably be somehow specific to one edition.
What I was getting at was that various publishers' editions do not necessarily partition the work in the same way, even in a single language. Over time, the Encyclopedia Britannica...
The answer to that is for the log to record the edition read, which is better anyhow. There’s a difference between having read a work in the original or in...
Sorry, that was sloppy of me to not specify that I was using "edition" in the OL sense, not the wider sense. [rant on] Putting a different colour of cover...
Agreed. I have sometimes shown volume in the pagination, such as "3v., v2: 234p. ill."
What’s really missing is a linked local archive of the BWB record at the time it was imported. The same could be said of any imported record: a dead link...
@seabelis That is a 979 series ISBN, which seem to be a common problem at BWB. Author searches for "Diana Elizabeth" rather unsurprisingly find several matches. Title search on "Soul...
@seabelis For those last two ISBNs, BWB found both for me today, although the former had a different cover title "Librarian Spy". Perhaps it is a transient problem on their...