Correcting a book description

[John]

The 1971 Penguin Classics paperback edition of Our Mutual Friend (at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17... this at the top of the description: "The author of How to Be Good and High Fidelity contributes an introduction to this classic—a sophisticated mystery, a love story, and a tale of the corruptive power of wealth." The Amazon entry for that edition (at http://www.amazon.com/Our-Mutual-Frie...) makes no mention of an introduction by Nick Hornby, though it identifies Stephen Gill as the editor. And I think it unlikely Hornby wrote one for this edition, considering it came out in 1971, when he was only 14.

The reference to Hornby may well belong to another edition of OMF (the "sophisticated mystery" etc. of the description sounds like the right book). I haven't searched the others to find out. Can a librarian address this and fix it, please?

[Paula]

Got it

[John]

Thank you, Paula!

[Laura]

For this book, it says the first edition has 208 pages but I have a copy right here and it's only 148 pages.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Confirmed with WorldCat and corrected.

[Laura]

Thank you!

[Mayank]

Please add the name of "Adesh Oberoi" in the author section of below book:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27...

This book was a product of joint efforts by "Varun Sharma" & "Adesh Oberoi".

Name of the other author can be read on the cover of book.

Thanks in advance.

[lafon حمزة]

Fixed.

[Mayank]

Thanks a ton..!!

[Lori Z]

I'm new here so I hope this is where I post about these issues. There is a book by Franklin Proud called "Where the Wind is Wild", but is coming up on your record as Where Wind Wild.
Thanks in advance!

[Experiment BL626]

Lori wrote: "I'm new here so I hope this is where I post about these issues. There is a book by Franklin Proud called "Where the Wind is Wild", but is coming up on your record as Where Wind Wild.
Thanks in adv..."

Fixed that. BTW, if you have a copy, please post the book description here and I or someone else will put the book description on Goodreads.

ETA: Nevermind, got the description from eBay... =P

[Lori Z]

Thank you!

[Lori Z]

There is a book by Margaret Pemberton called "Some Distant Shore" and I think the description is wrong. I found this description:

http://www.fictiondb.com/author/marga...

I was hoping someone could correct the description.

Thanks in advance!

[Nada]

Done!

[Lori Z]

Nada wrote: "Done!"

Thank you!

[Laura]

This book doesn't have a cover on it, I didn't know where to post that. I found some on Google easily, but I don't know if it's supposed to be official or something.

[lafon حمزة]

I tried fixing them. Please make sure that the covers are correct

[Laura]

Thanks! I don't know about the other versions but the one I have is correct now. :)

[Julie]

I think there may be some incorrect information on this ISBN 0-7088-4472-3

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

I am currently reading a copy and it only has 506 pages. Futura Publications in London.

[Mayank]

Julie wrote: "I think there may be some incorrect information on this ISBN 0-7088-4472-3

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

I am currently reading a copy and it only has 506 pages. Fut..."


is this the same edition that your are reading? because there is a another addition of the book which is a hardcover and has 506 pages.

[Mayank]

Julie wrote: "I think there may be some incorrect information on this ISBN 0-7088-4472-3

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

I am currently reading a copy and it only has 506 pages. Fut..."

link of hardcover:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Julie wrote: "I think there may be some incorrect information on this ISBN 0-7088-4472-3

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

I am currently reading a copy and it only has 506 pages. Fut..."

Fixed.

[Mayank]

Rivka: this edition contained 604 pages only.

Julie was looking for a different edition altogether which has now been added. Below is the link

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Mayank wrote: "Rivka: this edition contained 604 pages only."

No, it doesn't. Amazon has that (incorrect) information, but several other sites have 506 (or 512, which is pretty close) pages for that ISBN.

[Julie]

Julie wrote: "I think there may be some incorrect information on this ISBN 0-7088-4472-3

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

I am currently reading a copy and it only h..."

Mayank wrote: "is this the same edition that your are reading? because there is a another addition of the book which is a hardcover and has 506 pages."

Yes, that is the same ISBN of the edition I am reading, which is a paperback with 506 pages.

[Mayank]

Julie, your book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

[John]

There's a 1964 edition of Only Yesterday at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14... with a book description that may have been written by a user. It'd be better if it could carry the description used by some other editions, such as the one at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19....

By the way, there's a very small typo in that main description: it says "the rise if post-World War I prosperity" where it should say "the rise of…" Considering that it occurs in some of the other editions as well, you may not want to fix that--unless it's a matter of one master change in a database--but I thought I'd point it out. (I'm a copy editor in my day job.)

[Beata]

Book by Paul Coelho "By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept" has two editions linked to it that are actually different books.

Both of these are polish editions books:
Piąta góra (The Fifth Mountain)
Pielgrzym (The Pilgrimage)

Can somebody correct it please? Thank you.

[Amara]

Got #28; looks like someone already got #27.

[John]

Thanks to Amara and whoever else.

[John]

The description for the hardcover edition of Freeman Dyson's book at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63... is shorter than the description for the paperback at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13.... The paperback description is certainly better; I can't check my copy of the hardcover to find the original publisher's description because it's in storage. Would a librarian be willing to copy the longer text into the description of the hardcover?

This is a small issue, I know. I thank the librarians in advance for whatever they choose to do about this.

[Amara]

Changed the description to the longer one (which actually needed some extraneous information cleaned up).