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posted by qforce at 9:50 pm (EST) on Oct 9, 2009
posted by hoary at 10:24 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009
Can I ask you do do a couple of things? (And without giving you time to say no:) First, to look at http://www.librarything.com/work/5775514 ; secondly, to look at the actual book.
According to LT, this is Marketa Luskacova by Gerry Badger. According to my understanding of my copy, it is instead Markéta Luskačová by no single person; but if forced to specify a single person I'd have no hesitation in naming Markéta Luskačová, whose photography takes up most of the pages; by contrast, Badger is just one of two people who provide substantial introductory texts. (The colophon appears to name Jan Šulc as editor, but he could be anything from copyeditor to commissioning editor.)
Does this square with your copy?
LT's description squares with that given by Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Marketa-Luskacova-... . Amazon is in the business of selling books, not cataloguing them, and I'm not surprised by, and don't object to, the way it misinforms. What does irritate me is the way in which LT takes my scrupulously supplied data, checks the ISBN, looks it up at Amazon (or at its existing, Amazon-derived record), and subsumes by book under some semifictional "work". Or so I infer.
Unless of course I'm wrong and your copy really is Marketa Luskacova by Gerry Badger. (Incidentally, the cover of mine is beige rather than pink. How's yours?)
If I'm right, I want to edit the LT misinfo about the work (and not just the book). Is this possible, and if so, how?
posted by hoary at 10:21 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2009