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message 1: by Cybercrone (last edited Aug 14, 2021 07:53PM) (new)

Cybercrone | 20 comments I read almost exclusively e-books, and for many of the books I read the e-book is not listed in the Editions
field, so I have always added it with no problem.
I like to have them listed since I hope it will encourage publishers to put them out if they know people are reading them.
Anyway, that happened today and I added an e-book edition for Dead of Winter (August Snow, #3) but it has showed up as a separate listing instead of merging as it used to do.
Is there a new process to do this? Or a process for me to fix what I may have done wrongly this time?
I don't mind doing it since I have time and I don't want to put all that on our overworked librarian group when it's something I can do easily enough. I think?
Thanks for any guidance or information.


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Miriam | 1831 comments Do you normally click the "add new edition" from an existing edition of the book? That should make them combine automatically.

If you are clicking the "add new edition" and they aren't combining automatically, then you'll need to report it to staff as it's a glitch. https://www.goodreads.com/about/conta...

I went ahead and combined this book for you.


message 3: by Cybercrone (new)

Cybercrone | 20 comments Miriam wrote: "Do you normally click the "add new edition" from an existing edition of the book? That should make them combine automatically.

If you are clicking the "add new edition" and they aren't combining ..."


Hmm, no, I didn't find that method. What I've been doing is if I can't find the e-book I plug the ISBN into the search field, since sometimes it will be listed with a slight difference in the title that makes it not show up in the list of editions, so I figure that that will make certain that there is no e-book there. But they've always merged until this time. I'll try and figure out your method next time. Thanks so much - both for the hint regarding how to do it properly, and for merging these for me.


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