User talk:Ebenezer66
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The Time Traveller, Smith ebook
Minor detail. Bindings are by practice entered in lower case - ebook instead of Ebook. The page count for ebooks should be entered as 0 which results in the data being suppressed AND no warning about the pub lacking a page count. PDF versions do have page counts which can be entered. I have made the changes. Also, we generally normalize initials. Unless JC is an actual legal name it would usually be entered as "J. C.". Authors can get kind of picky about this and there are no other entries in the database so it is not a big deal at the time. I also note that the catalog lists the length of the story as less than 17500 words which means it is a novelette rather than a novel. Such titles are generally entered as chapterbooks rather than novels.--swfritter 15:30, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
The Time Traveller, Smith
Once again the length of the story suggest that this should be a chapterbook entry. Once I here from you I can make the changes necessary. I am assuming the binding you entered, "US Trade", is meant to mean that this is a trade paperback. For simplicities sake we limit the book bindings for books. In this case tp, pb, and hc would probably be the options and I would guess that tp would be appropriate. Thanks.--swfritter 15:36, 29 April 2010 (UTC)