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August 07, 2020 18:56

A few years ago I made an attempt to clean up incorrectly imported bound books: with dust jacket that should be without. After hundreds I stopped. I started doing that again yesterday, search term "dust jacket". Then more than 47,000 books come forward. Because mistakes are common with old books selected by "year ascending". Already made 20 corrections in the 1st 100. It strikes me that books are fed in sloppily, photos are not cropped, on its side, a 2 scan not the back of a book but an illustration etc and more nonsensical mistakes. ATTENTION bound book with dust jacket, I know that quite a few people think that a book with a linen binding is "a cloth cover". After all, linen is not even such a crazy idea. However, especially the way of importing and correcting that, my heart sinks. It feels like cleaning up trash in our neighborhood for those who leave it lazily behind. I can imagine that the administrators who are still involved in the catalog do not like this either. In any case, I will continue with input as I think it is good, but will take into account the wishes of the Lastdodo college.

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  • August 02, 2021 19:17
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August 02, 2021 19:17
Harry56 Although I understand your frustration, I will also have entered a number of them this way, because I know that the original had a dust jacket (can be checked after all) but that it has been lost and that it is the only copy is that I own.
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August 02, 2021 20:27
I just had to refresh my memory. It's no problem at all if you import books with photos or scans of the book without the dust jacket if you know it was published with the cover. However, then you can place a note in the details field such as "book is published with a loose dust jacket, here for now images of the book without". Then someone who does have the book in question with dust jacket can adjust the photos and the explanation can go away.
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August 02, 2021 21:03
Then it must still be the type of book: bound with dust jacket, even if it is not present in the photo
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