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I checked the edit log and cover has not been changed, some duplicates were merged by automated system so that may be when your edition was swapped.The cover you want is here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Martin wrote: "I checked the edit log and cover has not been changed, some duplicates were merged by automated system so that may be when your edition was swapped.The cover you want is here https://www.goodreads..."
Thank you! I'll switch my review to the one you linked. Is it possible to change the cover of the one you linked to the one from Internet Archive (or to recover the pre-merge cover, which may have been better quality)? As you can see, the other edition's cover is currently pretty washed out.
As a side note, do you know if GR is aware of this issue? I'm now worried that other older covers are going to end up merged/replaced....
The bots regularly destroy existing book records and add thousands of non book items to the database. Specific instances and mass edits have been reported to staff but there is rarely any feedback on what has happened or what is done to remedy issues.This is what happens when the (previously) best book database on the web is bought by Amazon and used for commercial ends.
Martin wrote: "The bots regularly destroy existing book records and add thousands of non book items to the database. Specific instances and mass edits have been reported to staff but there is rarely any feedback ..."Wildly frustrating for users and librarians alike. Thanks for the context and for your help!
The cover has been changed from the older Penguin Classics design (very similar but most noticeably with the thinner white dividing line) to the new redesigned edition.
When I read this several years ago, I went out of my way to shelve the edition that had the old cover. I don't know when it changed.
Can it be reverted?
Cover images of the old editions are almost impossible to find because they've been replaced with the redesign, so hopefully GR retains a copy of the old cover... If not, here it is on the Internet Archive, though it doesn't seem IA saved the image in full quality: https://web.archive.org/web/202405150...