User talk:Glenn.Skinner

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Hello, Glenn.Skinner, and welcome to the ISFDB Wiki! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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The Heir of Khored

Hi, and welcome. You did a very nice job with your first submission. The only thing that needed to be different was the cover image link. We don't allow links to images hosted on sites that have not granted us permission to do so (displaying the image places a load on their web servers). The Penguin Group site is not among those, so I switched the cover image link to point to Amazon, where we do have permission. The final result is here.

To answer your question about placing it in the proper title series, after the above submission was accepted, you would have needed to go to the title record and edited that to supply the series information. Someone has already gone and done that for you, though, so it is now appearing in the series.

One minor comment: Your note quotes the statement of printing in the book as giving the date "June, 2014", but you provide a date that includes a day (2014-06-03). Since the book does not provide the day, you should either omit the day in the date (using "00" instead of "03") or you should state in the notes where you got the publication date (e.g., "Publication day from publisher's website", or whatever is appropriate). The source for anything not from the book itself should be cited in the notes.

I hope that's helpful. Please see the links above for more information, and ask if you have questions. Thanks, and thank you for contributing. --MartyD 03:43, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the Amazon vs. Penguin image link distinction. Speaking of image links, when might it be preferable to scan the cover of one's copy rather than supply a link? If one can't find a link from a permitted site to use, Is that the way to go?
The June 3rd date did indeed come from the publisher's web site. I'll know to point that out in the notes next time.
Finally, I've noted very few references to e-book editions when browsing through the database. For example, Jane S. Fancher has several books available only in that format (published through Closed Circle Publications) that aren't listed. Are there issues with e-books that preclude their listing?
-- Glenn.Skinner 23:40, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
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