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Old 05-15-2023, 03:15 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
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.
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
Code:
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:

Code:
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.
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