A question about rewrites

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

I thought rewrites were combined with the original book?

This thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

As I said in that thread, I talked to an experienced Super who thought I was right. Another experienced librarian thought the page count may make a difference.

Not that this well known author complained AFAIK but this is an example
of a book with a substantial difference in page count & they are combined.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Often the author is trying to disappear a first edition that has had bad reviews. I do emphasise this isn't the case here.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

& this is old, but this was rivka's position on rewrites.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[L J]

On the side of combine: Goodreads is for readers and they need to know when a book is a rewrite of a book they may already have read and combine is the easiest way to indicate this.

On the side of separate: If it is essentially a new work it may need to be separate. A novel taking place years later where earlier short story is used as introduction or is incorporated as flashbacks maybe should be considered a new work though I think description should include this information.

[Emmy]

As far as the separation is concerned: I did not know that this is not one of the standard procedures... I'm only a GR librarian for somewhat over a year and I have never noticed something about this in the Manual, so excuse me if I did something against policy. I will consider this one of my 'learning moments'...

[L J]

Emmy wrote: "As far as the separation is concerned: I did not know that this is not one of the standard procedures... I'm only a GR librarian for somewhat over a year and I have never noticed something about th..."

You responded to a request. That's perfectly reasonable. I think it's good this has come up. It may mean more information added to Manual.

We all make mistakes. I once moved books from author 2space to author 3space as requested and was almost finished when I realized the books I moved belonged to author 2space. Moved them back to 2space along with more incorrectly on 3space account. Learning moments are so much fun.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Emmy wrote: "As far as the separation is concerned: I did not know that this is not one of the standard procedures... I'm only a GR librarian for somewhat over a year and I have never noticed something about th..."

I didn't do this to make you feel bad Emmy & I am sorry if you do.

There is a lot that isn't in the manual unfortunately & I know Jaclyn is trying to improve that.

I've been biting my tongue for a while watching against policy edits in the group, with the most common being not asking for an ISBN/ASIN for page counts. Rivka pulled me up for it about 3 times before I started doing that properly.

& I made a complete hash of some awards I entered the first time I did them & another librarian had to fix them up.

We were all new once. :)

Edited for clarity.

[L J]

Related to topic:

Mistakes happen but if this results in more definite combine and separate instructions in manual I'll call it a win.

Separating study guides, summaries, etc. when there are hundreds of editions... Doubt that's a task any look forward to doing.

More information in manual, please.

[Arenda]

L J wrote: "Separating study guides, summaries, etc. when there are hundreds of editions... Doubt that's a task any look forward to doing."

You might be surprised. I've done quite a lot of them; mostly adaptations from well known books that needed to be separated.

[Emmy]

Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "I didn't do this to make you feel bad Emmy & I am sorry if you do."

I fully understand, Carol! No hard feelings ;)

[Jaclyn, Librarian Program Manager]

Apologies, a bit slow in replying to this one.

I believe rewrites should be combined, and am happy to stick with Rivka's original ruling. In most cases it can be mentioned in the book description that the new edition is a rewrite.

However, I agree that if a book has drastically changed in length, i.e. doubled in size, then a new edition can be created.

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Jaclyn wrote: "Apologies, a bit slow in replying to this one.

I believe rewrites should be combined, and am happy to stick with Rivka's original ruling. In most cases it can be mentioned in the book description ..."

The book has more than doubled in size so I have left separate. But the same title will make it very confusing for readers.