Should official scans for physical books be submitted as digital versions?
2025-05-21 14143, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
s/versions/editions/
2025-05-21 14151, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
For instance, most of the works physically released by Mises Institute are also available as free ebook downloads from their website, and most of them are scans of these physical releases.
2025-05-21 14122, 2025
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2025-05-21 14122, 2025
jwillikers[m]
If it gets a separate ISBN, I'd consider it, but I don't know if there'd be much to gain... it sounds like the format is the only real difference. Oh wait. If someone is trying to fetch metadata for the ebooks, it won't match if only the print editions are available. Hmm, it would probably be good to have them as a separate edition then, but it doesn't necessarily need to be distinct from other digital editions of the book. The
2025-05-21 14122, 2025
jwillikers[m]
only other option would be to leave the format unselected, but I don't feel like that'd be the best approach.
2025-05-21 14158, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
I see.
2025-05-21 14125, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
If I've got some time later, I'd like to check if it's possible to build a few scripts to import Goodreads entries to BBz
2025-05-21 14134, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
It would streamline adding new entries a lot
2025-05-21 14114, 2025
jwillikers[m]
Actually, I probably wouldn't worry about it if it is just a scan. At that point, whatever is scraping for metadata should handle falling back to the print edition. Yeah, I feel better about that. It feels better to be lazy.
And that's a box set containing 5 different books, but it's its own thing, it has its own ISBN and own entry in Goodreads and other platforms
2025-05-21 14119, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
So I'm not really sure of how *this* shoudl be approached on BBz
2025-05-21 14155, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
Like, it's not a single book containing all others, but 5 books in one boxset, with each book having the ISBN of the bookset instead of its own.
2025-05-21 14103, 2025
jwillikers[m]
It's an edition comprised of multiple works. I think that's how to handle it. Series ordering for it is the more painful issue
2025-05-21 14106, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
So we'd add an edition containing all 5 separate books?
2025-05-21 14114, 2025
jwillikers[m]
I believe so, but you might double check the developer docs
2025-05-21 14113, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
Like, let me try to break it down into individual parts:... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/chatbrainz.org/BdLoWjbuUqNcfxMqFPJAsrxh>)
2025-05-21 14151, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
I understand Edition Groups to be basically various releases of the same work in different formats or with minor differences.
2025-05-21 14135, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
So adding all of them under an Edition Group would probably be confused because you'd have one Edition Group with 5 different books, considering that the entire boxset can be re-released in a different format or with minor differences.
2025-05-21 14154, 2025
jwillikers[m]
The box set would get it's own edition group, I think. The box set would be its own edition. I still don't understand edition groups in BB...
2025-05-21 14150, 2025
jwillikers[m]
It might be best to think of a boxed set as a single big book instead of separate, since they are all published together as effectively one book
2025-05-21 14112, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
We should probably have an option for "boxset", though.
2025-05-21 14133, 2025
jwillikers[m]
For formats? Yeah... that and an option for the number of books sounds like a good idea. That's analogous to mediums in MB
2025-05-21 14142, 2025
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2025-05-21 14142, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
Like, here we should have a "Boxset" or "Collection" format, and then we should maybe get to pick the specific books or their formats.
2025-05-21 14102, 2025
muxxerexe[m]
Because it is completely possible for a boxset to include Paperback + Hardcover + Audiobook CD + eBook code or something similar
