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Page numbering on the signed edition of : An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel
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WorldCat and your photos agree on the page count for this ISBN. I think you're good.Different entities count pages differently. Where exactly 336 came from is anyone's guess.
ETA: in a similar vein, I went ahead and removed "a novel" from the title field, but is "signed edition" valid? Any book can be signed by the author, and I doubt that every copy with this ISBN has a signature?
Thank you for the confirmation, I will use world cat from now on too.I also found the "A novel" idiosyncratic and redundant, but I said what can you do it is on the cover ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for the Signed and non signed editions; They apparently have totaly different ISBN numbers, so I think it is better to leave as they are (probably they are a part of a promotional deal).
In a book I was adding, I put Signed Edition in the Edition field, like "Large Print" or something similar. It is not technically part of the title.
For future reference, page count rules are in the manual. WorldCat is a good reference, but book-in-hand wins. (Sometimes WorldCat counts book previews, etc.)https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/2...
"A novel" isn't considered a valid subtitle.
https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/2...
As for the edition information, I dropped that into the edition field for the moment because it definitely doesn't belong in the title, valid or not.
Emily wrote: "In a book I was adding, I put Signed Edition in the Edition field, like "Large Print" or something similar. It is not technically part of the title."Beat me to it. Yeah, that's the assumption I ended up making, too.
Oussama wrote: "I also found the "A novel" idiosyncratic and redundant, but I said what can you do it is on the cover ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"Goodreads policy is to exclude "A Novel" or "A Romance" etc from the title field. Here's the policy:
https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/2...
ISBN-13: 978-1524744120
The information on the book page indicates that it has 336 pages, and the Amazon page agrees too(c.f. Link, and a picture for verification too). However, in the book itself, the last page of the story is 338, and the last numbered page is 343.
I have changed the information on the book page to 343.
I wanted to verify this with a more experienced member since most of the sites show 336, which is weird.