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The versions seem to be sorted correctly to me. The "novella" is 200 pages or less, while the longer work is around 400 pages (even 600 on at least one edition.)Librarians cannot move reviews, so if your review is now showing in the wrong place, it is because you have reviewed the wrong edition.
But there isn't an English translation of this novella, unless you can find evidence of one - I can't. Which is why I think the details of the listing are incorrect. I - and many others - reviewed the only edition that was listed on the site at the time, which seems to have been incorrectly detailed by whoever created it years ago.
I'm just wondering how this happened - don't librarians need to find proof of a book existing before making changes like this?
Separating only involves books that are already in the system.
But what if those books already on the system are incorrect - the original librarian who added it having input wrong information?
This book was imported from Amazon. No librarian was involved.
Does that mean the details can't be changed?
I feel like this request isn't going anywhere. Ideally I would like this incorrect listing (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...) to be returned to the main listing of this book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...) and those reviews associated with the incorrect listing be attached to the main listing of the book so that they're in the right place - and then the incorrect listing removed entirely. Is that achievable - is there a librarian willing to work on this? Is there anything anyone needs to see first to enable this to happen?
What is the correct page count? Please also provide the ISBN that is on your copy of the book.
The one I had is 320 pages:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breasts-Eggs...But I think the one my review was posted to was the only available edition in the listing at the time so there wasn't an option to choose a different (correctly numbered) one. And other early reviewers were obviously in the same boat because you can see over a hundred reviews posted to this edition.
If the link above didn't work:ISBN-10 : 1529054222
ISBN-13 : 978-1529054224
I think you'll just have to move your review.
Delete and re-post under the edition you read.
Is there another librarian reading this who has a different idea on how to achieve this?
Yesterday a librarian separated this edition of Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
from the main listing of the book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I believe this was because the librarian thought the edition that was separated was one of the book’s editions of a 2008 novella by this author. Except there is no English translation of this novella.
Perhaps the listing details of the separated edition are incorrect but my review of the book was of this book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...) and not of a non-existent English translation of an earlier novella. Except my review, and likely scores of others, have now been moved over to an incorrect listing.
I expect transferring over dozens of these reviews to the correct listing would take a lot of time for a librarian. So my suggestion would be to amend the listing details of the separated edition and merge with the main listing, which would fix the listing error and ensure all reviews are of the correct, main edition of the book.
Can someone help, please?