Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The quoted ISBN (9780241435) is incorrect/invalid/incomplete, it should be: 9780241435007

source: https://www.amazon.com/The-Island-of-...

9780241435007 is already taken by
Untitled Elif Shafak NovelUntitled Elif Shafak Novel, so there is some work to do.
I think it's best to combine the two editions, then delete the "Untitled" edition, which will merge the records.
But I'm not 100% sure, so I'll let someone else decide.

Hi David, thanks for your observation. The "Untitled" is clearly an inappropriate book entry, possibly resulting from an automatic import. The cover confirms furthermore that we are dealing with the same book here. Any (super?)librarian with the required authority can take care of this?

Anyone able/available to finalize this issue? Thanks.

Those 'untitled' books happen when a publisher assigns an ISBN to an upcoming work long in advance. Once the real title is known it can be updated here. It is more logic to update such a detail and then merge the invalid ISBN into the valid edition than the other way around.

I merged this edition.

thanks, that is settled then!