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Originally Posted by Quoth
Each different paper edition has a different ISBN. If an equivalent ebook has an ISBN (it might not, they don't need them) it will always be different from all the ISBNs for paper editions.
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Yes -- I don't care so much about the ebook ISBN specifics, but that's why I made a specific custom column to make sure the paperisbn didn't get lost or overwritten.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Better to keep paper & electronic entries separate. I'd even have separate entries for different paper formats, never mind different editions.
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Agreed on the different paper formats for sure -- although in my case that's rare and usually inadvertent.
That leaves a problem of denormalized and diverging data on the separate editions, though. As a practical example, let's say I have
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Author Title isbn paperisbn Read Tags
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 123456789X 123456789X 1/1/2001 PBook
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 2345678910
Daniel Keys Moran The Long Run 3456789012
...and what I want is the list of works I haven't read. Just filtering on my Read column will still give me the ebook edition of Meditations -- but requiring that I update the Read column for every edition when I read a particular edition seems.... prohibitive.