Subsequent prints with different blurbs and page counts

[Dua (in reading slump) ✨]

Hi,

I apologise if this post doesn't belong here.

I have a question regarding page count. I live in Turkey and let's say a publishing house here published a Turkish translated version of a book in 2017 for the first time. Then they printed the same book again in, say, 2019. Same ISBN and same cover, but different blurb and different page count. Should I add these as separate books? Should I change the blurb and page count of the first print? Should I do nothing?

I've searched the group and read on a thread that if a book is printed more than once with the same ISBN and cover, we should only add the first print (the 2017 one in my above example). But what about when subsequent prints have different blurbs and page counts? Blurbs might not matter much, yes, but page counts do and I have some books with different page counts than their first prints, so I'm a bit lost right now.

I'd appreciate if someone would help me or point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

If the cover is the same, there's usually no reason to add a new edition for later printings, and it's likely to get deleted as a duplicate if you do. Updating the blurb is fine, but the page count gets stickier. You can add a new edition with the different page count if you wish, but as I said, it's likely to get deleted as a duplicate.

[Dua (in reading slump) ✨]

Oh well, that's what I thought. I usually delete such duplicates when I see them or ask superlibrarians if I can't do it myself, so I understand there's no point in adding new editions for subsequent prints.

One last question. For a few books I have, I changed the page count of the first print to the page count of the current print. Do you think that's okay or should I revert them back to their original page counts?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

That depends on what the source was for the page count that was there. If it imported from somewhere, I think it's fine to leave the edit. But if it was added (or edited) by another user, it should be reverted to that.

[Dua (in reading slump) ✨]

Got it. It's getting very late now, so I will check the sources tomorrow and act accordingly. Thank you so much for your help, much appreciated.