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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I tend to just use the standard column for the first published date, even if my text is from a revised edition. For instance, I have The Hobbit as 1937, even though the text is of the revised second edition of 1951.
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Same here. I use the date of first publication.
As Calibre cannot register dates before year 101 due to a limitation of the date libraries it uses, it's impossible to use the publication date field accurately when adding ancient works. I just use a date of 1000 there, as it's the first date containing four digits.
Maybe I'm going to use my "Annotation" field to record the true publication date.
If the book is an omnibus, containing works of one author, I use the date at 60% of his age. An omnibus containing works of an author who lived from 1812 to 1887 would get a publication date of 1857. (1887 - 1812 = 75; 75 x 0.6 = 45; 1812 + 45 = 1857.) Then I'm at least in the ballpark regarding the writing time of those stories. OK, I know this can get weird with authors who died really young, or authors who wrote most of their works in their later years. Then you can get publication dates at a *really* young age, or even before the first work was written.
IF the book is an anthology, containing works of many authors, I use the publication date of the book itself.