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How are books of which several identical editions appear within a year? The only difference is often the print statement on the copyright page. When all those editions are listed separately, it may (because both cover and year are identical) appear as if duplicates have been entered. In the instructions for completing the field “No. addition ”it is explicitly stated that it is not the intention to distinguish different pressures with this. But is there another way to make it clear at a glance?

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February 14, 2010 12:14

How are the 10th and 11th editions from your example recorded? Only as 10th, only as 11th or as a combined item? And with what year?
And if eg the first 3 editions of a book are identical, only the first edition is included and 2 and 3 are ignored?
Are these fixed guidelines? Is there a consensus among administrators that it is pointless to record identical reprints separately? And why does that apply to books and not comics?

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I just wanted to make sure that your first answer reflected not just your personal preferences, but an “official” position. I have no qualms about sticking to the guidelines, but I would like to understand the arguments for doing or not doing something.
From my own collection area I can at least contradict your position about first editions. Different publishers can indeed publish a first edition of the same book, more specifically when it concerns different translations or adaptations. This will hardly be the case with modern books, but it is not uncommon for classic “collectible” titles.
I myself also have several identical reprints in my collection, which I really do consider as separate items. You may call me crazy, but you cannot deny that collectors sometimes have strange preferences. What is the use of listing 40 identical books in Catawiki? Catawiki is intended for collectors and if there are collectors who distinguish between 40 editions of the same book, it is useful to list them separately it seems to me.
If I am not allowed to enter those different pressures on Catawiki, just because they hardly differ from each other, then that is not really an incentive for me to manage my collection via Catawiki at all.

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February 14, 2010 17:20

I believe that your 58 prints of Koot Dreams Down (although I think only 16 were published) should indeed all be listed separately if you want to call this a serious catalog. After all, a collector can own any of those prints (or all). The fact that users enter items that they do not have and cannot guarantee the existence is a practical problem that should not get in the way of the completeness of the catalog.
A catalog like this necessarily consists of compromises, but it wants to don't say you have to yield to the greatest common denominator. Especially not if you exclude the expertise of specialist collectors. *
With comics it is usually very clear that one first edition can be identified, because there is seldom any change in the form (apart from a single coloring or redrawing). Most books are, too, but there are reissues and reissues.
At least 3 different editions of Alice in Wonderland are currently on the market: by Gottmer a 4th edition of the translation by Engelsman (1999), by Ad. Donker a 14th edition of the translation by Kossmann and Reedijk (1947) and by Athenaeum-Polak & amp; Van Gennep a revised reprint of the translation of Matsier (1989), which is also available in an earlier version by Van Goor (the same publisher who also published 11 editions of an earlier translation from 1934).
None of these real publishers took any notice of the previously published editions of other translations.
* See for example Jottum's contributions on Forum & gt; Postcards & gt; General postcards & gt; Publisher spelling

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I think it has always been the intention to include prints that are not yet in the catalog. Otherwise, not every user will be able to identify their own instance. I have really never heard that this would be different for books than in other sections on Catawiki. It also seems inconvenient to treat this differently per collection area. Nobody understands that anymore.

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May I also make a comment: I think it is totally nonsensical to include identical reprints as separate items in the catalog. What's the point of that? Just to be able to print a nice list that shows that you have 40 identical books in your bookcase? If they all have different covers now, then you are absolutely right.
And then that comparison with Alice in Wonderland, all those editions are just an example why they should be included in the catalog: they are not identical , different publisher, different cover perhaps. Maybe the book block is the same, but that makes no difference at all.
You are not serious if you were to include it in the catalog. Shows that you don't really understand how a catalog should be put together.

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February 14, 2010 19:50

Postcards: once again proven that they are not identical, different spelling, different edition!

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February 14, 2010 19:51

The Alice in Wonderland example was only intended as a response to Willem's firm assertion that a real publisher has published a book in one form or another in the Netherlands NEVER [will] name a first edition .

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February 14, 2010 19:52

Then Meulenhoff is a good publisher because he mentions earlier editions of other publishers.

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February 14, 2010 19:54

And my reference to the postcards discussion was an example of how the standardization of catalog data (in this case the merging of differently written publisher names into one spelling, as is also common in the Books and Comics sections) can in some cases lead to greater confusion and frustration among experts.

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The fact remains that a publisher remains one and the same even if it is written on one card in capital letters and the other in small letters. So only mention in details. The card itself is different and can therefore simply be recorded twice. It makes no sense to include the publisher in the database with both capital and lowercase letters. Then you keep going.

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February 14, 2010 20:06

Meulenhoff is probably a good publisher, but what do you mean by that? That Willem is right and that all other publishers are “ridiculous dilettantes”?

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February 14, 2010 20:08

Apparently you don't understand why it is essential for a postcard collector like Jottum essential that the different spellings are maintained. He explains it clearly enough.

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February 14, 2010 20:20

This does not alter the fact that a publisher with different fonts to include in the database is and remains very senseless. Whatever problems a collector may have with that. Should we also make typography part of it? You keep going!

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February 14, 2010 22:43

Forget the paper catalogs.
The great thing about the database behind Catawiki is that you can indicate exactly the printing you have in your closet.
No other catalog in the world can match that.
The rest of the discussion is only about presentation and cosmetics.
Can all be neatly solved technically later with the right techniques. You have to give that time…

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Exactly. With Comics, large series now also show the Main series to start with, which is more than enough for most visitors. However, information outside that main sequence is not excluded from listing.
The accessibility of a paper catalog is limited if too many details are mentioned. However, the strength of a digital catalog is that in principle any conceivable type of information can be included, and that the user can determine how much of it he will or will not see. (It may not be quite that far yet, but I have no doubt that it will be possible to "tune" the site in detail in the foreseeable future.)
A perfect example of such a database is IMDb.com, which contains far more information about movies than anyone would like to know, without making the site inaccessible. And anyone who is looking for that detailed information in specific areas can find it within seconds. Technology makes possible.

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Wasn't that also the criticism at the beginning of Wikipedia that a site where anyone could add or edit information could never achieve any level of reliability?
I would like to know what percentage of new items here are really rejected.
P.S. I mentioned IMDb as an example, but it is not a wiki site. All information is checked there by moderators. However, as a database it is second to none.

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IMDb is no comparison, how many identical re-releases of a movie are there?

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Lets build a catalog together… ahum, so anyone who collects ANYTHING can drop it here, even if it's underpants.
So if I have a print of a book and see that DIE isn't in it, I would like to include it. Regardless of he seems like a busy earlier. I have THIS press once and not THAT press, you know?

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