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message 1: by Paula (last edited Nov 29, 2009 06:52AM) (new)

Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments Now that we have the Edition field, when I come across books that are "Large Print" editions I am removing the words large print from the title and adding to the Edition specific field.

Any thoughts on how the following should be handled:

Desperate Remedies, Volume 1 of 3 (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

Should:
1)"EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition" be entered in to the Edition field
or
2) Large Print

Edit:

Also should we add to the Edition Field the "EasyRead Comfort Edition" text?

Anna Karenina Volume 3 [EasyRead Comfort Edition:]


message 2: by Eva-Marie (new)

Eva-Marie Nevarez (evamarie3578) | 753 comments I haven't come across anything like this but I want to see the answer too. If I found that myself I'd leave it be. I'd just copy and paste 'EasyRead Super Large 24pt' since it must be even larger than average large print for it to be called "super large".
This is interesting.


message 3: by Lisa (new)

Lisa Vegan (lisavegan) | 2400 comments Abigail, I've been leaving them as is, but I think your solution is a better one. I think I'll do that in the future, unless Rivka/others disagree.


message 4: by jenjn79 (new)

jenjn79 | 564 comments I've come across ones that say something like "Thorndike Romantic Collection Large Print" and I just put Large Print in Edition for those because the other text has no value really.

But for the example Paule gave, the extra text gives descriptive indicators about the format of the book. I would be inclined to cut & paste the whole thing into Edition. If you put the other part in in the notes field, then someone just browsing the book won't see it and have no idea it's there. They'd have to go to the edit page to see if and most users don't do that.


This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For | 949 comments I've done the same thing as Isis. "So and So Large Print Edition" has generally become just "Large Print" but I've seen some of the EasyReads as well and I generally copy that part verbatim into the Edition field.


message 6: by Kathrynn (new)

Kathrynn | 187 comments That's what I do, too. :-)


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