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I didn't pay enough attention though to the release date, so what I did may in fact have been the wrong move. I'll investigate further.
According to the Librarian manual, "changing the cover of an existing edition is a violation of Goodreads policy". But which cover is the starting point?
Case in point, this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
This was the originally circulated cover:
https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1396885...
This was the cover I shelved:
https://d1ldy8a769gy68.cloudfront.net...
Looking at my shelved copy today, I now see an updated current cover.
Can I create an alternate cover edition with the cover I had shelved? Or since that cover was not actually "published", does that violate another policy of creating/shelving an edition is that is not an existing book?