Thread: How do you handle book editions?
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Old 09-14-2022, 06:52 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by retiredbiker View Post
I only worry about editions if I have some need or desire to keep more than one, like a US edition and a UK edition. In those rare cases, I did add to the Title: This Book -US and This Book -UK. But I really dislike polluting the title field with anything other than the title. This was done a long time ago - I would like to go back and clean it up, maybe using tags. The problem is identical titles and recognition of what is what.
I did do the same - reluctantly polluted the title.

But when Kovid introduced The calibre:// URL scheme, I added a long text column and linked different editions via calibre://show-book and calibre://view-book links, viz:

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