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Lansdale's Savage Season

Hi Susan -

I believe you had mentioned in another thread that your books were in storage. When you have access to them again, could you double check the ISBN for Lansdale's Savage Season. I added the Worldcat number for this one, but it has a different ISBN, 0929480538 (or perhaps 092948052X, but I think that's for the slipcased edition). The ISBN we have, 0-929480-22-8, matches the one listed in Locus1, which is likely the source for our record (It predates your verification). While I suspect that one of the secondary sources is incorrect, I suppose it is possible that the book bears multiple ISBNs. Once you can verify what's in the book, we can add a note explaining the discrepancy. Thanks for checking, though I know it may be a while. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 09:13, 22 January 2023 (EST)

I'll check when I can Susan O'Fearna (talk) 16:12, 22 February 2023 (EST)

OK... on the front flyleaf it says: ISBN 0-929-480-22-8 Trade $25.00 / ISBN 0-929-480-23-6 Limited Set $100.00

On the copyright page it says Signed & Limited Edition ISBN 0-929480-53-8 / Trade Edition ISBN 9-929480-52-X / LCCN 90-070490 Susan O'Fearna (talk) 22:49, 6 November 2023 (EST)

Damnation

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?347419; All other issues on ISFDB are published by Books, not Press. Can you check and fix if necessary? --Username (talk) 11:05, 23 April 2023 (EDT)

I can't get *to* my stuff, but I'll change it per your recommendation Susan O'Fearna (talk) 01:23, 24 April 2023 (EDT)

OK, but I see from an online search that many sites refer to the publisher (apparently one of several over the magazine's history) as Damnation Press while many other sites refer to it as Damnation Books. So I wonder if their name changed somewhere along the way; it would still be good if you could check this issue and any other issues you may have PV when you get a chance to verify how they were named inside the issues since online info can't be trusted. --Username (talk) 09:40, 24 April 2023 (EDT)

After the End

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?417779; I added 2 Archive.org links in a pending edit and I see intro is titled "Introduction: Before After the End", so if your copy says the same it should be fixed. --Username (talk) 11:49, 3 June 2023 (EDT)

Veiled Web

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?49331; An archived copy was uploaded in 2014, the same year you PV this edition, and while adding the link just now I noticed page count entered here is 357, not 355, and cover artist is entered as Nielsen, not Nielson like it says on the copyright page (same in the original PB), so if yours is really 355 pages and artist is Nielson can you fix those? I'm also going to ask PV of 2nd PB printing about this because they entered artist as Nielsen, too, so either they made the same mistake or the publisher corrected the name in later printings. --Username (talk) 12:08, 24 September 2023 (EDT)

355 numbered, a blank page then "about the author" = 357

damn, it is spelled Nielson Susan O'Fearna (talk) 23:02, 6 November 2023 (EST)

Mark Powers / Dresden Files comics

Hi, just noticed you have some of the Dresden Files graphic novels verified. As such, I imagine you will be getting pings from me changing the (co-)author from "Mark Powers" to "Mark Powers (comics)". Please see ISFDB:Community_Portal#Mark_Powers_-_two_different_people for the background on this - hopefully it shouldn't be a controversial change. Thanks! ErsatzCulture (talk) 18:52, 19 November 2023 (EST)

Works for me... if they're different people we definitely need to differentiate them! Susan O'Fearna (talk) 10:09, 20 November 2023 (EST)

Book of Ballads

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?282239; Cover art and 7 of the contents have the wrong month, 10 instead of 11. --Username (talk) 21:19, 19 November 2023 (EST)

All of these were previously published in individual comics format AND there was the BALLADS book published earlier with only part of the content... Susan O'Fearna (talk) 10:11, 20 November 2023 (EST)

Firebirds Rising

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?82103; I added Archive.org link in a PENDING edit and I think page count should just be 530 with brackets removed from contents at the end because the numbers are clearly visible at the tops of the pages. --Username (talk) 17:35, 21 November 2023 (EST)

I checked and it does have page numbers thru 530! fixed it Susan O'Fearna (talk) 19:32, 26 November 2023 (EST)

Susan, I'm holding your edit. In addition to changing the page numbers, you are converting from an ISBN10 to an ISBN13. We record the form that is on the pub. The Internet Archive scan shows the ISBN10 on the copyright page and the back cover. An ISBN13 would be unusual for a 2006 book. Does yours actually have a ISBN13? Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 17:39, 27 November 2023 (EST)

yes, on the bar code Susan O'Fearna (talk) 20:41, 27 November 2023 (EST)

I see it now. I focused on the labeled ISBN10. I approved the edit and added a note about the ISBN placement. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:29, 29 November 2023 (EST)

Cool, thanks - now for all the rest of my pending edits... Susan O'Fearna (talk) 13:34, 2 December 2023 (EST)

Hyenas

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?336933; Page count of copies on Archive.org is 100, not 104. Also, the 2 stories need their page numbers added. --Username (talk) 10:13, 25 November 2023 (EST)

changes are pending Susan O'Fearna (talk) 10:45, 30 November 2023 (EST)

Someplace To Be Flying

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/view_submission.cgi?5824621; LCCN is for another book so I noted that. --Username (talk) 11:04, 2 December 2023 (EST)

I just tested it and it goes to Someplace to Be Flying Susan O'Fearna (talk) 13:36, 2 December 2023 (EST)

LCCN on copyright page is wrong so I made a note of that in the notes section and searched LoC site and got the right LCCN which was off by one number. --Username (talk) 17:44, 3 December 2023 (EST)

OK, that makes more sense :-) Susan O'Fearna (talk) 10:38, 4 December 2023 (EST)

Out of Avalon

Can you please double check the title page of your Out of Avalon? I have the first printing and while the cover has "An Anthology of Old Magic and New Myths", the title page of mine is "Tales of Old Magic and New Myths". Since we record per the title page, I will be correcting the first printing and wanted to know if yours should likewise be corrected or made a variant. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 19:53, 6 December 2023 (EST)

I've updated the first printing. Please let me know what your second printing title page states. Also, please double check the page count. In the first printing, the last 2 pages are unnumbered so I switched mine to xi+338+[2]. Thanks. -- JLaTondre (talk) 08:44, 10 December 2023 (EST)

Whispers, August 1982

Hi Susan

I'm going to clean up the title of our mutually verified publication of Whispers, August 1982. We currently have the title as "Whispers #17-18, August 1982". However, the standards for magazine titles allow for either using the date or the issue number, but not both. The date is also preferred. I'll move the issue number into the notes. Please let me know if you have any concerns. Thanks. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 07:18, 8 December 2023 (EST)

Works for me Susan O'Fearna (talk) 11:00, 8 December 2023 (EST)

A Dance with Dragons Audiobook

Hi Susan

I've been catching up on entering my audiobooks. I own a digital copy of George R. R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons which I purchased on July 12, 2011. You have verified what appears to be the same edition that was released the same day. I see two changes I would like to make to the record. First, the cover appears to be the same as the Larry Rostant cover, and I'd like to import that cover. While the cover illustration of my copy is essentially the same, it does differ in some of the text and lacks the gold bar at the top. My cover can be seen here. Does the cover of your copy match mine, or does it match the one we currently have? Could you check yours and let me know? If yours doesn't match mine, do you recall if you obtained yours in 2011 or more recently? I suspect that the cover we currently have may be from a later publication and not what was issued in 2011. Thanks for checking, and do let me know if you're OK with importing the Rostant cover. Thanks. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 21:48, 1 January 2024 (EST)

My sister and I have a shared library due to the Households and Family Library - she's the one who bought that particular book - some time in March of 2019... when I created the audible record here I linked to the amazon record, so it's likely the cover has changed Susan O'Fearna (talk) 23:56, 1 January 2024 (EST)

I should mention that I download all my audible purchases and manage them with iTunes. Thus, I have a saved copy of the cover present when I purchased it. If you keep your audiobooks in the cloud and use the Audible app, I believe that Audible will always show your their current cover in their app, as they do on their website. I'm guessing that you and your sister keep your copies in the cloud and thus it is uncertain which cover was present when the book was purchased in 2019. I think we should probably have two publication records, one with the original artwork with the 2011-07-12 date. Another would have the current artwork and since we can't pinpoint the date the cover changed, with the unknown (0000-00-00) date. I would also add a note to that record stating that the cover changed sometime between 2011-07-12 and 2023-04-26 (the date you verified the record and linked to the current cover). Assuming that we do this, and that you don't know which cover was present in your copy when purchased, would you prefer that your verified record be the one with the original cover and the 2011 date, or the current cover (with the gold bar) and the unknown date. Whichever you decide, I'll update the current record and add the second one, so you won't have to move your verification. Please let me know your preference. Thanks. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 19:15, 2 January 2024 (EST)

for those books/stories *I* purchase or listen to I save the cover at that point for my nerd-base :-) but since Lisa got that one... because I save them to a massive off-line hard drive so I can listen to them away from the internet Susan O'Fearna (talk) 18:17, 3 January 2024 (EST)

I had forgotten that you host a server with much cover art that is in our list of sites giving us permission to link. Since you don't know what cover was present when the book was purchased, are you OK if I change the cover on the existing record? I will also create a new record for the new cover. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 19:06, 3 January 2024 (EST)

knock yourself out - I just like them to be in here :-) Susan O'Fearna (talk) 13:37, 4 January 2024 (EST)

All done. Let me know if you see anything else that needs changing. Thanks! --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 18:48, 4 January 2024 (EST)

Olivia de B.

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?814699; Shouldn't cover artist have the same last name as the other credits? --Username (talk) 19:42, 2 January 2024 (EST)

thanks for catching that... do you want to fix it or should I? Susan O'Fearna (talk) 14:26, 3 January 2024 (EST)

I think you should as PV. --Username (talk) 17:10, 3 January 2024 (EST)

it's pending now Susan O'Fearna (talk) 13:37, 4 January 2024 (EST)

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Hi Susan

I've got another audiobook with a change in cover that we both own, Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth read by Tim Curry. My copy has this cover without the yellow Audible flag and with Curry's signature appearing above his name. I purchased my copy on March 6, 2012. Could you check your records and see if your cover is the same as the Amazon cover linked or matches mine. If you don't have records for this one, I can handle it the same way as I did the Martin. I'll also note, that I was able to match the translation based on this page and have linked it to the others where the translation has been identified. Thanks in advance for your help on these. --Ron ~ Rtrace^Talk 21:56, 4 January 2024 (EST)