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1aspirit
Hello,
Where's the best place to enter an author's note? If it matter, I'm specifically wondering what to do with a note, published at the back of a book, that provides information that might influence reader perception of the contents?
Where's the best place to enter an author's note? If it matter, I'm specifically wondering what to do with a note, published at the back of a book, that provides information that might influence reader perception of the contents?
2MarthaJeanne
You should not be copying more than a sentence or two because of copyright. If you do someone will probably remove it.
If it is only a sentence or two it could go in Quotations, or if it at the end of the book in Last Words.
If the note is published at the end of the book, presumably the author was OK with it being read after the rest of the book. It would not need to be available in LT to be read before aquiring the book.
If it is only a sentence or two it could go in Quotations, or if it at the end of the book in Last Words.
If the note is published at the end of the book, presumably the author was OK with it being read after the rest of the book. It would not need to be available in LT to be read before aquiring the book.
3SandraArdnas
If we are talking about CK, perhaps Book description is a good place, noting it's from the back cover. Within your own catalogue, comments or private comments would be the place
4MarthaJeanne
>3 SandraArdnas: Book description is supposed to be your description, so copying something from the book is not suitable.
5aspirit
>3 SandraArdnas: I'm sorry my description wasn't clear. The note is from the back pages, not the cover. Based on what MarthaJeanne said, I wonder if Quotations is more suitable for quotes from the cover as well as those from the back pages.
My intention: A couple lines of the brief author's note counter the criticism I've seen in reviews outside of LibraryThing. The criticism ignores elements of the book that are concisely explained by those lines. That's important because of publishing issues influencing purchases, loans, and recommendations. Not to get into specifics, but I would be prefer that more people understand why the novel's world was designed the way it was before making decisions about the story's value in a collection.
One way to do that might be in my review, if it cames to that. The author's words are difficult to work in, and I don't want to write a review that's essentially a response to others' reviews.
>2 MarthaJeanne: Quotations seems like a good enough place, with my only concern that the note will rarely be seen. I guess that's a reasonable risk, though.
My intention: A couple lines of the brief author's note counter the criticism I've seen in reviews outside of LibraryThing. The criticism ignores elements of the book that are concisely explained by those lines. That's important because of publishing issues influencing purchases, loans, and recommendations. Not to get into specifics, but I would be prefer that more people understand why the novel's world was designed the way it was before making decisions about the story's value in a collection.
One way to do that might be in my review, if it cames to that. The author's words are difficult to work in, and I don't want to write a review that's essentially a response to others' reviews.
>2 MarthaJeanne: Quotations seems like a good enough place, with my only concern that the note will rarely be seen. I guess that's a reasonable risk, though.
6r.orrison
It's worth noting that the Book Description (on the Main page, not the CK page, but still part of CK) is a general description of the work, not your specific copy of the work.
7aspirit
>4 MarthaJeanne: and >6 r.orrison: Thank you! I stumbled on my Common Knowledge edits page and finally realized that I'd used the Book Description field incorrectly.
