1AbigailAdams26
A member has reached out about an oddity when it comes to the cover images displayed in the Recently Added module of her homepage. She recently entered a book, and uploaded a cover image for it. That book in the Recently Added module of her homepage displays a different cover image however—a cover from a different edition of the same book, cataloged earlier. Something for @conceptDawg
Steps to Reproduce
1. Log in as the member oldtimers
2. On the homepage, you will see the book in question—The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) is the third from the left. See first image below.
3. Click on this book, and you will be taken to the work page, where you will see the correct cover image. See second image below.
Notes:
1. The cover image which appears on the homepage is from an earlier copy cataloged in this account, which has 59 different editions of The Scarlet Letter added. That copy is here: https://www.librarything.com/work/2264/book/310408546. The copy linked from the homepage is here: https://www.librarything.com/work/2264/book/312753793
2. The correct cover image does display in the Recently added module on the member's profile page, at the left of the second row. See third image below.
Steps to Reproduce
1. Log in as the member oldtimers
2. On the homepage, you will see the book in question—The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne) is the third from the left. See first image below.
3. Click on this book, and you will be taken to the work page, where you will see the correct cover image. See second image below.
Notes:
1. The cover image which appears on the homepage is from an earlier copy cataloged in this account, which has 59 different editions of The Scarlet Letter added. That copy is here: https://www.librarything.com/work/2264/book/310408546. The copy linked from the homepage is here: https://www.librarything.com/work/2264/book/312753793
2. The correct cover image does display in the Recently added module on the member's profile page, at the left of the second row. See third image below.
2AbigailAdams26
Bumping this, as I have another case which has been reported.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in as the member vangogan
2. Search for "Me, Hood!" in the member's catalog: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/vangogan?&deepsearch=Me%2C%20Hood%21
You will see an American and British edition, with different cover images (first image below).
3. Then scroll through the Recently Added module on the member's homepage. You will find that the purple American cover displays twice, for both copies (located on separate pages, see second and third images below)
Notes: Although one copy was entered on April 2nd and one on April 7th, both show the April 2nd entry date in the Recently Added module. That said, when you click through on the copy in the more recent page (second image), you will see it is the April 7th-entered copy, with the black cover.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in as the member vangogan
2. Search for "Me, Hood!" in the member's catalog: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/vangogan?&deepsearch=Me%2C%20Hood%21
You will see an American and British edition, with different cover images (first image below).
3. Then scroll through the Recently Added module on the member's homepage. You will find that the purple American cover displays twice, for both copies (located on separate pages, see second and third images below)
Notes: Although one copy was entered on April 2nd and one on April 7th, both show the April 2nd entry date in the Recently Added module. That said, when you click through on the copy in the more recent page (second image), you will see it is the April 7th-entered copy, with the black cover.
4vangogan
Okay, now dates are showing correctly in correct order on Recently Added.
But my April 2nd copy of "Me, Hood!" by Mickey Spillane, which is the American edition, still shows up with UK information when I click on it in Recently Added.
But my April 2nd copy of "Me, Hood!" by Mickey Spillane, which is the American edition, still shows up with UK information when I click on it in Recently Added.
5conceptDawg
Ok. This should be fixed now if you want to give it a look.
6vangogan
I have the same message as above: dates are correct, but my April 2nd copy of "Me, Hood!", although showing the correct American cover in "Recently Added", when clicked upon, still goes to the British edition information.
7gilroy
>6 vangogan: There is only one work for Me, Hood! in Librarything, so not sure what you mean by British versus American edition information, unless you pulled your book from a British source.
8conceptDawg
>6 vangogan: Ah. I see what's happening. I'll get it fixed today.
It's not a code bug, per se. But a bug in how the server handles the request, nonetheless.
It's not a code bug, per se. But a bug in how the server handles the request, nonetheless.
9vangogan
>6 vangogan: Should be fixed now.
10vangogan
>7 gilroy: Not so--I have two editions, one British and one American. But now it has been fixed.
11vangogan
>8 conceptDawg: Yes, fixed now. Thank you very much.
12gilroy
>10 vangogan: so you're saying the interior is different? (more than just certain spellings?) If not, they should be a single work.
13vangogan
>12 gilroy: Yes, they ARE different--different stories are in the US and the UK versions, and if I have two editions, one US and one UK, then I want TWO separate entries for them. I have done that for ALL my editions, and I plan on continuing to do so. After all, the book is a separate one, with different publishers and work information, so they should be treated as separate.
14gilroy
>13 vangogan: I wanted to make sure, that's all.
But make sure you find two works then, not just two entries in your library. (And note them as two separate stories in the disambiguation notice.)
But make sure you find two works then, not just two entries in your library. (And note them as two separate stories in the disambiguation notice.)
15jjwilson61
>13 vangogan: To be clear, it's the different stories that makes them different works. They different publishers is irrelevant.
16Nevov
I am not completely sure this will help or spin the topic even more! but I'll try.
>13 vangogan:
Certainly if we own different editions of a work, it's completely standard to record multiple book records in our library (there is no suggestion otherwise, so don't worry on that front) and, additionally to that, if we know there are different contents we can separate them at the work-level so some of the followup questions have been about that.
>7 gilroy:
There was mention of different editions because the book records have different covers (relating to the US edition, the British edition) and therefore different edition info in each book record, so it was easy to tell the bug, when the same cover was showing twice on the homepage (instead of two different covers), and the link led through to the wrong book record (with the wrong edition info on it).
>13 vangogan:
Certainly if we own different editions of a work, it's completely standard to record multiple book records in our library (there is no suggestion otherwise, so don't worry on that front) and, additionally to that, if we know there are different contents we can separate them at the work-level so some of the followup questions have been about that.
>7 gilroy:
There was mention of different editions because the book records have different covers (relating to the US edition, the British edition) and therefore different edition info in each book record, so it was easy to tell the bug, when the same cover was showing twice on the homepage (instead of two different covers), and the link led through to the wrong book record (with the wrong edition info on it).
