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Joseph (josephuk) | 259 comments Please merge with default:

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This translation never had a Kindle edition. As one can check, this entry was added by a librarian in 2017 with no ASIN and since 2011 there was already a Kindle edition published by New Directions with Benjamin Moser's translation.


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Dobby (dobby0390) | 7858 comments Joseph wrote: "... This translation never had a Kindle edition. ..."

On what do you base this statement?


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Joseph (josephuk) | 259 comments Dobby wrote: "Joseph wrote: "... This translation never had a Kindle edition. ..."

On what do you base this statement?"


I made an educated guess, because you can't find any information about a Kindle edition with this translation and I never saw this edition available on Kindle since the time I have an Amazon's account (2010). Plus, is very rare to a publisher release an old translation on ebook in the same year they advertise "a new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece".


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Dobby (dobby0390) | 7858 comments Ah, yes, I see.

I'm afraid the mystery is going to continue. You make a good argument, but we cannot prove that the publisher didn't release this as a Kindle edition. We librarians must err on the side of caution and leave it in the catalog.

If we had a statement from the publisher saying they did not release a Kindle edition in 1992, the mystery would be solved and we could call it the duplicate that it most likely is. 🤷🏻‍♀️


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Joseph (josephuk) | 259 comments Already DM'd them, I'm hoping they see and reply.


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Dobby (dobby0390) | 7858 comments Joseph wrote: "Already DM'd them, I'm hoping they see and reply."

Good for you! I've done the same in the past, with fairly good results.


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