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Book editions, formats, and unifying discussion
How does Readernaut handle book editions and various book formats? For example, I am a huge fan of the Song of Ice & Fire series by George R. R. Martin. Within that series I own four books of varying editions and formats. The ones that are found in the search are marked as mass market paperbacks, while I have the hard cover versions of them. How do we properly maintain the actual book we own (in this case, the hardback) but not miss out on the comments, notes, etc. of the otherwise identical paperback editions?
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Inappropriate?If you type in your books ISBN the exact book you own should come up. Our search results come from Amazon so they're pretty good.
We do our best to keep Editions associated with an overarching Title so when we display things like other readers or notes they may come from other editions but are written about the same Title.
Here is an example: http://readernaut.com/books/0140620184/
Towards the bottom you'll see the other editions.
We still have a ways to go with presenting all the intricate details about each book but we'll get there :)
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?I have a similar qualm in that there is no clear differentiation on what book to select as my edition/format and the comments/reviews/notes/readers should be aggregated despite the edition.
It seems too tedious and unrealistic to have ISBN as the best search method. Hope to see progress with this.
Additionally, it would be a plus if there was a way to switch editions. Like I have added a book that is a hardcover edition, made comments/notes and now realize I selected the wrong format. -
Inappropriate?I like the idea of being able to change your edition.
Most of the time you'll see your edition in the book search results. Classic books usually have many editions so finding an out-of-print edition or obscure publisher edition can be hard so using an ISBN is the quickest way to get what your looking for.
You can also use the bookmarklet (located under the settings hood) to search Amazon. Once you find your book click the bookmarklet and it'll add the Amazon book to your Readernaut library.
As our data grows (and it's growing fast!) we'll be able to offer a better result set that includes a book title like "1984" and all its editions as a subset of results.
I’m excited
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Excellent, glad you like the idea.
To further explain an execution I would find useful is in the book profile page where there are additions, there could be some on rollover info that says what the edition is and give an option to switch to it.
I really think the book profile should almost be the default view when any book is clicked on, but thats something else entirely.
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