Can books from a collection be added as a separate edition?

[Matthew]

Some books are collections of separately published books. Is it possible to add a book from a collection as a separate edition?

For example, Republic by Plato is ~250 pages. It has been published within the 1800 page book of Plato's Complete Works.

Plato: Complete Works

Is it possible (and allowed) to add this version of Republic as a separate edition under the page for Republic?

The Republic

I've seen that some people have already done this but I'm not sure if it's officially endorsed.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

No, complete works is one edition. There is nothing stopping you from rating/reviewing the individual title on one of the individual editions.

EDIT: My answer was for digital editions where the edition is truly the complete works. However, sometimes each volume in a set of books will have its own ISBN or be clearly a separate volume. In those cases, they can be entered separately and combined with the individual titles.

So the real answer is, "it depends".

[Matthew]

Thanks for the info. The reason I'd asked was because of the large disparity in page count between books from a collection and from individual publications rather than any issues with reviews/ratings.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Well, yes. Works that include many books will have a higher page count than works that include just one book. Why would it matter unless you were reviewing/rating just the single title?

[Matthew]

No, what I mean is that if I only read part of a collection then if I want to add those parts to my profile, I need to add a separate publication which will give me an incorrect number of pages read.

For example, the first work in Plato's Complete Works is 16 pages long (Euthyphro). As you said, if I want to add it to my profile then I'd need to add a separately published edition. The issue is that this will inflate my "pages read" count as each individually published edition often comes with introductions/preambles etc.

The default edition of Euthyphro is 128 pages, eight times longer than in the Compete Works. Many of the other editions are of a similar length.

My original motivation was to see if I could avoid massively bloating my "pages read" count. Adding a single book from a collection isn't an issue but if I was to add 10 or 15 separate works then it would greatly distort my "pages read" count.

From your replies I see that isn't possible so I'll just refrain from adding shorter works like this and avoid the issue.

[Emily]

Anything before the official page count starts doesn't count (If there are Roman numeral pages, etc.) if that helps.