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anyone with librarian status....
Anne (Booklady) wrote: "Teri-k wrote: "I don't have access to the correct first publication date for this title, but I'm pretty sure that 1900 isn't right. :) The rest of the series is from this century. [book:Bride for a..."Thanks!
I have an old book from my shelves that I wanted to reread for this challenge. It's not in the data base and there's no ISBN number anywhere that I can find. If I give the data I do have can someone add it anyway?Here's what I have:
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness by Alan Burgess
A Bantam Pathfinder Edition, Bantam, NY
(Originally published as The Small Woman)
Original Dutton edition first pub April 1957
Bantam edition first pub Nov 1958
Bantam Pathfinder first pub Nov 1963, this edition 11th printing
It's mmp size. The cover is orange with the title and description in boxes at the top. Most of the book is a picture of a blond woman and a group of many children crouching while a small plane flies overhead.
The description on the cover says "The wonderful, true story of the courageous English girl who defied the whole Japanese Army".
Thanks for the help.
Teri-k wrote: "I have an old book from my shelves that I wanted to reread for this challenge. It's not in the data base and there's no ISBN number anywhere that I can find. If I give the data I do have can someon..."The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
Is this the book you are looking for? If you expand to all editions you'll find SMALL WOMAN also
I happened to read the book a couple of years ago
ISBN 9780553028546 is on my shelf.
Book Concierge wrote: "Teri-k wrote: "I have an old book from my shelves that I wanted to reread for this challenge. It's not in the data base and there's no ISBN number anywhere that I can find. If I give the data I do ..."Well, my cover is different from that or from any GR shows. Does that matter?
His Most Suitable Bride is #8 in The Charity House series but it isn't listed. Can someone add the series? http://www.reneeryan.com/ The author's website shows the series list.
Thanks!
Teri-k: I think this is the WorldCat entry for your edition, it doesn't look like it had an ISBN at all. I added an edition for you here. I found the cover you were talking about, but it's on a site that I can't use an image from. If you can scan or take a picture of your bookcover we can add that to the entry. The cover only matters for the challenge if you're reading it for a cover specific task (if the task calls for an airplane on the cover, you would need it added to be able to prove that), otherwise it only matters as much as you want it to for your own record keeping (I'm pretty anal about shelving the covers that I own, but it's not as important to everyone!).Pamela: Added to the series! :)
I want to read the e-book of The Bible Jesus Read, but the most popular paperback entry I linked to doesn't have page numbers. Could somebody look it up and add the pages for me?Thanks very much.
Bea wrote: "Teri-K, this is now corrected."Thanks so much. You folks are very helpful!
Can someone add the series name to Finding His Way Home? It is #3 in the Barrett's Mill series. The entire list can be found here: http://www.miaross.com/barretts_mill.Thanks!
Pamela wrote: "Can someone add the series name to Finding His Way Home? It is #3 in the Barrett's Mill series. The entire list can be found here: http://www.miaross.com/barretts_mill.Thanks!"
Done!
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...This book has a paperback edition, but it doesn't have a page count listed on Goodreads. Amazon thinks it's 320 pages:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Cyclon...
Can someone add the page count for me? Cheers! :)
Happy, I took care of that and noted it in the Problems thread this morning.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is original hardcover edition - showing publication date of Dec 6, 2012 - but NO "first published" dateThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie is the paperback edition - showing "first published" date of 2013
Can the First Published date be corrected to Dec 6, 2012 for all editions of this book?
Book Concierge wrote: "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is original hardcover edition - showing publication date of Dec 6, 2012 - but NO "first published" dateThe Twelve Tribes of Hattie is t..."
I changed the original publication date. Keep in mind though that any edition that has a specific publication date that is equal to the date of original publication will not show the original publication date in it's info.
So the paperback edition you linked will show the first published date, but the hardcover version doesn't - because it's date of publication IS the first published date.
Madam, Will You Talk? says unknown binding. It's a paperback. The number of pages is correct. It doesn't make a difference for the task, but I like knowing things are accurate.
Julia, I verified the binding for the ISBN on the book you linked and updated it.
Vicky wrote: "I changed the original publication date. Keep in mind though that any edition that has a specific publication date that is equal to the date of original publication will not show the original publication date in it's info...."Thanks, Vicky.... and thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware of that, but it certainly makes sense.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...This MMP edition of Justice Hall doesn't have a page count. I don't know how to find it, as it seems to be an alternate cover, but since I use ebooks, I need to use the MMP edition. Help!
I'm not a librarian, but I do own this edition of Justice Hall. Not counting the sample chapters of Keeping Watch in the back of the book, it has 429 pages.The last numbered page is 424. The Epilogue, which is narrated by the main character so clearly should count, is on the facing page (would be 425). The next page is blank. The facing page (would be 427) has an Editor's Afterword which is actually by the author. The next page is blank. The facing page (would be 429) is headed About the Author.
Hope this helps for a librarian to add the page count.
Happy: I updated the pages based on the ISBN. An ACE should be the same with a different cover.Julie: GR librarians use Worldcat as the primary source for page count. Worldcat gives 424 for the ISBN.
I am unsure how to add a cover.Could a librarian add this cover:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1432...
to this book:
Raiders of Blue Dome: A Western Story ?
switched to length verification
Bea wrote: "Nick, this is done."Thanks!
I'm reading "Jesus the King" by Timothy Keller, and the records appear to be a bit of a mess. My book's isbn is 9781594486661. That number takes me to the correct cover but the wrong title/subtitle. The book was originally published as King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus, but now it's "Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God". What I see looking at the GR records is some editions with info but no isbn. Other books appear to have the incorrect titles or the wrong subtitle. Sometimes when you look at the cover given, it shows one subtitle but the record shows another. Would someone who knows what they're doing please see if they can straighten this out? I want to use it for a task requiring the word "death", which my book clearly has, but the record attached to this isbn number doesn't.
I'm not even sure if this explanation makes sense, lol, but I'd appreciate anyone who can figure it out!
I changed the title to the Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God as this is what is on the cover and what Amazon and Worldcat claim is the title of this ISBN. As all the entries for this book are done by automatic systems that are notorious for being unreliable I think that this is the correct title.But notice that Goodread only allows to use a ISBN once, so when a book is published again with a different name but the same ISBN we enter an ACE (Alternative Cover Edition) without the ISBN in the ISBN field.
Fandury wrote: "I changed the title to the Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God as this is what is on the cover and what Amazon and Worldcat claim is the title of this ISBN. As all th..."Thanks for fixing it and explaining the challenges involved. I knew I didn't understand what was going on so I didn't want to tamper with it. :)
The first three editions of this book
all seem to have a description written in Portuguese (despite all being English-language editions)
The Kindle edition here: The Hidden Child
has an English-language description
Can this be fixed?
Thank you.
Book Concierge wrote: "The first three editions of this bookall seem to have a description written..."
Fixed
The Bitter Sea is missing the ebook epub listing isbn 978-0-007-33234-2I imagine there's a kindle edition for this as well, but I don't know its details.
Cheers!
-H
Done. No Kindle edition noted.
Could a librarian please add the audio edition of Everyday Sexism? Link to the audiobook's page on Audible here: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/...Thank you!
I listened to Genghis: Birth of an Empire. According to Amazon the ASIN # is B001BK22HW. But GR doesn't have anything by that number, and I can't find a recording narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.If it matters, I got the audio through Audible.
Thanks for your help.
Vicky wrote: "Teri-k: I think this is the WorldCat entry for your edition, it doesn't look like it had an ISBN at all. I added an edition for you here. I found the cover you were talking about, but it's on a si..."Vicky, Somehow I missed your reply. Thanks for taking care of that. I don't have access to scanning or very good photography at the moment. I may try adding the cover later. Thanks for fixing it for me.
Do you happen to know how I link to a version that doesn't have an isbn number?
Christine wrote: "Could a librarian please add the audio edition of Everyday Sexism? Link to the audiobook's page on Audible here: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/......"I went ahead and added the audible version!
Teri-k wrote: "I listened to Genghis: Birth of an Empire. According to Amazon the ASIN # is B001BK22HW. But GR doesn't have anything by that number, and I can't find a recording narrated by Stefan..."I added it so you should be able to find it now!
Mary Beth wrote: "Teri-k wrote: "I listened to Genghis: Birth of an Empire. According to Amazon the ASIN # is B001BK22HW. But GR doesn't have anything by that number, and I can't find a recording nar..."Thanks so much. :)
Mary Beth wrote: "Christine wrote: "Could a librarian please add the audio edition of Everyday Sexism? Link to the audiobook's page on Audible here: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/......"Thank you very much!
Would a librarian please add a book for me? The book is http://www.amazon.com/Let-Crabgrass-G.... The author is H. Allen Smith. Would you also be so kind as to include the page count which is 256, the publication year (1960), and a picture of the cover?Thanks.
It's been added using the publishing information from WorldCat!
Help! I just read Recipe for Bees and the page numbers on the record do not match the book in my hand. The ISBN: 0609604511 in my hand has 305 pages. Would someone please fix? Thank you
WorldCat has it at 305 pgs as well so I changed it. Donna Jo wrote: "Help! I just read Recipe for Bees and the page numbers on the record do not match the book in my hand. The ISBN: 0609604511 in my hand has 305 pages.
Would someone please fix? T..."
Mary Beth wrote: "WorldCat has it at 305 pgs as well so I changed it. Donna Jo wrote: "Help! I just read Recipe for Bees and the page numbers on the record do not match the book in my hand. The ISB..."
Thanks a big bunch.
Mary Beth wrote: "It's been added using the publishing information from WorldCat!"Thank you, Mary Beth.
Will a librarian please add a page count (249) for the book Bears in My Kitchen? If it's not too much trouble, the cover and location (Yosemite) would also be great since anyone of these details might be required for a task. Also, I believe the published date is incorrect. It's listed here as 1900 while my book and both of the below sites list it as 1956. I appreciate all of your help as I'm a big fan of little known books. Here's the Amazon and WorldCat links:
http://www.amazon.com/Bears-kitchen-M...
https://www.worldcat.org/title/bears-...
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