New Edition

[Paul]

Recently I added J. Dover Wilson's The Fortunes of Falstaff to my books and wrote a review. I actually had a new edition but not having librarian status at the time (I was a new member and didn't have 50 books), I wrote my review under the other edition. Today I added a new edition for this book and when I saved it, a screen said, I could now add my review. I didn't do this, since my intention was to merely change the edition on my bookshelf to the new one. But now, I can't find the new edition I'd added.

Did my not entering a review actually delete the edition I'd entered, or is it just that it takes some time for a new book/edition to appear? Or is there another problem of which I am unaware. Thanks.

[mlady_rebecca]

Is this your new version?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70...

The books need to be combined (which I did) before you can switch from one edition to another.

[Paul]

Thanks for your message and sorry for the late reply. I was away for the weekend. The two editions are now combined. But my problem was that immediately after adding my new edition I couldn't find it via the search facility. Does it take a while for new editions/books to appear on the site once they've been created?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Paul wrote: "Does it take a while for new editions/books to appear on the site once they've been created?"

To appear, no. To be found by the search's indexing function? Yes.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

For future reference, searching by ISBN (which uploads the book from Amazon) is a better way to add a book than adding it manually.