Two books need fixing

[JSWolf]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...

Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

This one has a couple of errors to be fixed.

First one is the description. Please use the following description.

"Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars.Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed-a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he had, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt. Or start hunting again.

Next, the page number should be 277.

Now onto the next book to be fixed.

Star Trek: TOS: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster & Steve Mollmann

This one has a few more errors.

Let's start with the authors. The authors are in the reverse order. It should be Michael Schuster, Steve Mollmann.

The title also needs fixing, It should be "A Choice of Catastrophes (Star Trek: The Original Series)"

It doesn't have a cover for some reason. But here is the cover to use http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/...

Page number should be 241.

And finally the publisher is Pocket Books.

Thanks for the fixes.

[Kim]

With the first one the description in place was suffice. It was about the correct book and there's no requirement for it to be detailed or the official description. I have nonetheless changed it.

With the second book I have combined it with the paperback edition, updated the cover and changed the publisher (which was technically correct as Pocket Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster adult books).

I didn't change the author listing as there is no need. It doesn't matter which author is listed first.

I also didn't change the page numbers as I don't change page counts on ebooks as they fluctuate and are never really exact.

[Sandra]

JSWolf, completed the fix on ST.

Kim, it can be important for the authors to be in correct order eg combining. So the convention is to have them in the order listed on the cover.

And JSWolf uses epub which is a recognised ebook page number format.

And the Star Trek naming convention also applies, so I changed that.

[JSWolf]

Thank you. But there is still one more change to be made.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...

Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb

The page number did not get updated. It's actually 277. Thanks.

[lafon حمزة]

Kim wrote: "...I also didn't change the page numbers as I don't change page counts on ebooks as they fluctuate and are never really exact..."

It's usually better to keep the publisher amount as ebooks don't have a set amount of pages. Different readers have different page numbers. Even if you use only one reader, the size of the window can change the page number

[Sandra]

Sorry, that's not correct. PDFs & epub's don't change.

We've previously discussed this issue :)

Fixed Seduction, JSWolf.

[JSWolf]

Sandra wrote: "Sorry, that's not correct. PDFs & epub's don't change.

We've previously discussed this issue :)

Fixed Seduction, JSWolf."

Thank you. Yes, we have discussed this before and no need to rehash.

[lafon حمزة]

Sandra wrote: "Sorry, that's not correct. PDFs & epub's don't change.

We've previously discussed this issue :)

Fixed Seduction, JSWolf."
ahh sorry did not realize there was a discussion about this. where is that thread?

[JSWolf]

If you read all the threads that I've started in this forum, you'll find it.

[JSWolf]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...

I found one more minor issue with Seduction in Death, that could be fixed.

The series information is not showing in the book list. Please can this be fixed. Thanks.

[Vicky]

Got it.

[JSWolf]

Thank you.

[Ellen]

Please combine these books. The ebooks are showing up separately from the other formats in Goodreads:

http://www.goodreads.com/work/edition...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47...

Thanks!

[vicki_girl]

Got them Ellen. :)

[Ellen]

vicki_girl wrote: "Got them Ellen. :)"

Thanks, Vicki!

[Paolo]

Sandra wrote: "Sorry, that's not correct. PDFs & epub's don't change.

We've previously discussed this issue :)

ePub page numbers DO CHANGE.

[Jan]

Paolo, Epubs and PDFs do have a fixed pagenumber, and then they can be displayed either fullpage, or chopped up. It's that chopped up thing that depends on screensize and version and the likes, but they have official pagenumbers.

[Paolo]

Jan wrote: "Paolo, Epubs and PDFs do have a fixed pagenumber, and then they can be displayed either fullpage, or chopped up. It's that chopped up thing that depends on screensize and version and the likes, but..."

ePubs might display different page numbers depending on the specific device (or software, for what it matters) you're reading them on. PDF is a typographic format with a fixed page on which text is in fact "printed", whereas in ePub text is designed to "flow" and layout indeed changes across different reading devices.

If you open a PDF using any software or device you're always gonna get the same page count (unless you use some trick, but that's not the point), and this simply does not happen with ePubs. For instance, if I open an ePub book on my Sony Reader and then on Calibre I get two different page counts.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

True enough. However, ePubs have an official page number, nonetheless.

[Paolo]

rivka wrote: "True enough. However, ePubs have an official page number, nonetheless."

I'm aware of the fact that some publishers (and/or sellers) give page counts to their ebooks. Is this the "official" page number you talk about? And is this that we should use in GR? If yes, without going into the discussion on how (un)reliable such page counts are, there is an important issue to be addressed. Some ebooks are in fact published in both PDF and ePub formats (and possibly others, e.g., mobi), each of which has an official (and usually different) page count, but same ISBN. Now, since it is my belief that in GR we don't create separate editions for each ebook format, which page count should be used in these cases?

[Sandra]

Paolo, this discussion was had last year, from memory.

And it was decided then that PDFs and ePubs would be counted for ebook page numbers and unless each format was given its own ISBN from the publishers then a generic ebook edition would cover all formats.

[Paolo]

Sandra wrote: "Paolo, this discussion was had last year, from memory.

And it was decided then that PDFs and ePubs would be counted for ebook page numbers and unless each format was given its own ISBN from the pu..."

I'll try and find the thread, but what you say doesn't really settle the problem: if a book is published with the same ISBN in PDF and ePub and there's one generic ebook edition on GR that covers both of them, which page number should be used? The one for PDF or the one for ePub? I claim neither, and if there's a different policy I'd like to understand what's the rationale behind it.