Thread: Date written (or originally published) metadata download?
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Old 10-23-2018, 11:37 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by hamers View Post
If "published by" will always be the current published, is there *another* field that will get the original date?

I can't for the life of me figure out a situation where the fact an e-book was published by a big pub house in 2016 could be at all more important than that an author wrote it in 1946 in response to WW2.
No, for the Goodreads source plugin, the "published by" is the publisher of the edition selected. That might be the latest edition or it might not. And there can be multiple editions available from multiple publishers at any point in time (different publishers for different countries, or hardcover vs paperback vs ebook). So, if you are recording details of the books you own, then the publisher of the edition you own is probably more important than knowing who published the first edition. I think this is the much more common use case.

If you want the publisher of the first edition, then select that as the edition to get the details from. There are several ways to do this.
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