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@seabelis Do you think it should be a general rule that c.I.p.=not a book, or would that be a step too far? At what point in the journey from working...

Related discussions on edition date issues: #806 #2039 #2711 #3391 #3421 #3496 #3746 #5333 #6021 #6038 tldr: consensus is to convert to, store, and sort on EDTF formats

The source record, https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/9780141342542 presents a date of "Oct. 4th, 2016" and an isbn10 of "B01E5T8RF6" which is in fact the ASIN for a now-unavailable (or possibly never-was-available) Kindle edition,...

@tfmorris I think you may be preaching to the choir. Personally I would prefer to only adopt vendor edition records that can be independently confirmed, e.g. in a library catalogue,...

@seabelis Absolutely. Wanted lists should accommodate a) specific edition; b) any edition; c) any edition in a specific language. Related, for sponsoring acquisitions: if we already have multiple copies in...

This seems like a common human interface problem, not just for Bookreader. Each platform has its own usual way of commanding paging that users expect. Sometimes it's a physical button...

AFAICT yes it would. Author records should only be linked via work records, never directly from edition records.

Please note that the one record links Wikidata, ISNI and VIAF identifiers, and that all of those identify alternate name forms which include the “M.” It would seem the answer...

@bitnapper Some of those work records (OL31461827W,OL31461997W,OL31462067W) show no linked author, which may be a factor.

> This one cant be merged because one edition seems to block it: > > https://openlibrary.org/works/merge?records=OL2719042W,OL10452151W,OL31461888W,OL31461962W&primary=OL2719042W&mrid=64257 > > I tried to set the author again on this one but get...