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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
For me, it depends on the book itself. If the edition is sufficiently different (mostly case for public-domain stuff) I keep them separately.
But if it's the same publisher and I got the eBook to supplement (or replace - I've lost books to mold or my cats getting happy with their claws) my paper copy I keep them together.
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That's where I'm leaning -- to use LibraryThing terminology, if it's a different work, then it's a different row. If it's a different edition of the same work, then it's all one row. I want to sound it out to the community before I merge 1500 rows, though.
In that theory, using my previous example, I might have
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Author Title isbn paperisbn Read Tags formats
Marcus Aurelius Meditations 2345678910 123456789X 1/1/2001 PBook epub
Daniel Keys Moran The Long Run 3456789012 mobi
...which tells me that I have a paper book copy of Meditations 123456789X and also an epub, and a mobi copy of The Long Run. Further, I might have:
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Author Title isbn paperisbn Read Tags formats
Marcus Aurelius & Gregory Hays Meditations 2345678910 123456789X 1/1/2001 PBook epub
Marcus Aurelius & Martin Hammond Meditations 4567890123
Marcus Aurelius & C.R. Haines Meditations 5678901234 1/2/2002 epub
Daniel Keys Moran The Long Run 3456789012 mobi
...showing that I have cataloged three translations, one in physical and epub (which I have read), another in epub (which I have read), and one I don't have.