How to mark up a slightly different edition?

[John]

I was on the point of entering

Be As You Are

when I spotted that the edition in my hand carries a different date to the one entered, and it also contains a different number of pages.

So it is a different book, right?

I'm currently having difficulty determining how one appends my title to the one already entered.

Regards

John

[Sara ♥]

Check the ISBN number and see if it matches. It might be the same book, but with wrong information entered. If this is the case, let me know what you need changed, and I can do that for you.

[Todd]

World Cat thinks that the publication date for that edition is 1992, which, I'm guessing, is the same as yours. If so, change it. Amazon has an appalling error rate.

To append two books together, click the 'combine' button (right-hand top corner of any book page) - a combining page loads. Check the boxes next to the two entries which are editions of the same work, and then click the 'combine' button at the top or the bottom of the page.

You can only combine two editions if they have the same first author, so, if you're having trouble, check author order.

[John]

Sara wrote: "Check the ISBN number and see if it matches. It might be the same book, but with wrong information entered. If this is the case, let me know what you need changed, and I can do that for you."
Sarah, yes please.
Before applying to be a librarian, I'd envisaged that I'd be dipping my toes gently into the water... adding the odd book cover and so on; but the dip turned into a dive ;) My first day has been a steep learning curve, and I shan't attempt any more today.

Furthermore netting has been dogged here by powercuts and stuttery a net connection, great fun.

Regards

John

[Sara ♥]

I know exactly what you mean! I had a list of like 12 things I wanted to change when I became a librarian, and now I'm in the top 50 librarians! (I was #25 for a while, but I've dropped to #41...) Of course, I'm anal retentive and change all sorts of things that are just little typos and bad formatting and things... But it's a lot more responsibility than I thought it would be!

[jenjn79]

Librarian work seems to suck people in ;) I requested it when I first joined to add book covers...

[Sherry]

Isis FG wrote: "Librarian work seems to suck people in ;) I requested it when I first joined to add book covers..."

It meets my OCD needs perfectly! Better than crossword puzzles & Sudoku!

[Sara ♥]

Sherry wrote: "It meets my OCD needs perfectly! Better than crossword puzzles & Sudoku!"

I know EXACTLY what you mean!!

[John]

Sara wrote: "Check the ISBN number and see if it matches. It might be the same book, but with wrong information entered. If this is the case, let me know what you need changed, and I can do that for you."

Hi Sara, after a night of rebooting the brain (i.e. 'sleep') I've checked the 10-digit ISBN number, and also the 13-digit bar-code, and both match up.

What I think must have happened is that the copy in my hand was purchased in Landmark, Madras for Rs.200/-.
It is published by "Penguin Books India (P) Ltd".
This explains, I think, why information such as number of pages differs.
Interesting.
What do we do here?

Regards
John

PS:
Isis FG wrote: "Librarian work seems to suck people in ;) I requested it when I first joined to add book covers..."

"...and are not sure what happened next?"