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Aaron Hutson » Feature requests
Hello and Happy New Year
I have been adding books to the database. Some publishers like Osprey have physical and digital versions of the same book with the only significant differences being 'Format' and 'ISBN'.
Trying to replicate all the other information would be very time consuming, so I have been sticking to the physical books for now.
Is there an easy way to copy data between records so I could create entries for the digital versions?
Alternatively could you add an tick box option in the new book page "Digital Version" and then if exposed allow additional entries for?
'Format'
'ISBN'
Perhaps 'Publication Year'
Osprey publish in PDF and epub formats. Others such as Pen and Sword offer mobi or epub.
Perhaps add a 'Digital Format' field? Or expand the current values in the existing 'Format' field.
If you do this then it may be necessary to allow multiple digital records.
Alternatively in the book page have additional ISBN-13 fields for PDF, epub and mobi.
This would have the benefit of only presenting a single record to users but allowing multiple formats of the same book to be represented.
One final point, if the number of records for digital books grows then it would be useful to add Format to the search filters for books.
Cheers
Hello and Happy New Year
I have been adding books to the database. Some publishers like Osprey have physical and digital versions of the same book with the only significant differences being 'Format' and 'ISBN'.
Trying to replicate all the other information would be very time consuming, so I have been sticking to the physical books for now.
Is there an easy way to copy data between records so I could create entries for the digital versions?
Alternatively could you add an tick box option in the new book page "Digital Version" and then if exposed allow additional entries for?
'Format'
'ISBN'
Perhaps 'Publication Year'
Osprey publish in PDF and epub formats. Others such as Pen and Sword offer mobi or epub.
Perhaps add a 'Digital Format' field? Or expand the current values in the existing 'Format' field.
If you do this then it may be necessary to allow multiple digital records.
Alternatively in the book page have additional ISBN-13 fields for PDF, epub and mobi.
This would have the benefit of only presenting a single record to users but allowing multiple formats of the same book to be represented.
One final point, if the number of records for digital books grows then it would be useful to add Format to the search filters for books.
Cheers
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1 15 January 2021, 23:31