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Originally Posted by Jellby
Abstract/summary, genre(s), keyword(s)/tag(s) are all subjective. Someone has to fill them in and the values person A may choose will be different from those of person B. … but I wouldn't trust them any more than the values you could get from any random bookstore.
Publisher(s), ISBN# make no sense for Gutenberg books. There is no publisher, or they're all "Project Gutenberg". Even if the transcription is initially based on a printed book with an actual publisher, that doesn't mean the Gutenberg book has that publisher. ISBN numbers are specific for specific editions. Every paper edition of some particular work has a different number (assigned, at least partially, by some external authority). If a books is officially published both in paper and electronic format, it will most likely have separate ISBNs for both. The vast majority of Gutenberg books were published long before ISBN existed, and even if some books is based on a printed version with ISBN, that is definitely not the ISBN of the Gutenberg book. Gutenberg books are not facsimiles of printed editions, they're just another version (without ISBN).
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This is EXACTLY what I was writing less clearly earlier. Forget ISBN totally. It's only relevant to selling or publishing.
You need to decide what the genre(s) are. Some books are more than one and some don't fit easily. Especially the older they are.
Any ISBN you find will be a particular modern reprint and might not even be exactly the same text. It might be revised.
Different SIZE editions of a paper book with the same text have different ISBNs!