Differing page numbers

[Rusalka]

Hi all.

Question for you. I'm currently reading A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II - ISBN: 978-1-74237-614-1

The Goodreads page, the publisher's page, and World Cat all say this edition with this ISBN is 352pp. However the hard copy (paperback) edition I have in my hot little hands which I typed the ISBN off the back of the book is only 323pp.

Any suggestions on what to do with this?

[Z-squared]

Well the one here on GR is a hardcover. It's not too common, but sometimes paperbacks are reissued with the same ISBN as their hardcover predecessor, and since it's a different format, it's not a surprise that it would have a slightly different page number. Do you want us to create an alternate cover edition for you with the correct pb format and page number?

[Rusalka]

Sorry, not the one I linked above *blush* You're correct, that edition is a hardback.

This edition is the one with the same ISBN: A Good Place to Hide which is a paperback, same publisher, but less pages.

[lethe]

Corrected. (Worldcat says "Record machine-generated from publisher information", and publishers tend to count the blank pages as well.)

[Rusalka]

lethe wrote: "Corrected. (Worldcat says "Record machine-generated from publisher information", and publishers tend to count the blank pages as well.)"

Thanks Lethe. I was not sure what we do in those circumstances, so thanks for yours and Z-squared's help.

[lethe]

Book in hand always takes precedence :)

[Rusalka]

A book in the hand is worth two on the publisher's page? Or some other laboured idiom?

Seriously, noted :) Thanks!