Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

There are editions of the book Eichmann in Jerusalem that need to be merged.

1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780670001651

2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9788426413451

3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – Duplicate of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... – Duplicate of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6..., believe it or not. I requested Goodreads Staff remove the UK ebook ISBNs from the UK Kindle and properly create the UK ebook edition, but instead of reading any of the information I provided to make sure it had all the correct data, they completely ignored it and couldn’t even be bothered to give it the right country’s cover art or even the full ISBN. After the merge is done, if you don’t mind cleaning up after staff, the publisher page is here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/62456...
If you don’t want to clean up after Staff, that’s totally understandable and I’ll include this one in the cleanup thread I make after the merges here are done.

5. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

6. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

7. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780670001651

8. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – Duplicate of ISBN 9789899980716

9. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... – Duplicate of ISBN 9788858837900 (note that the Italian ebook edition ISBNs are currently assigned to the Italian Kindle edition; I normally don’t ask Goodreads staff to separate ebook ISBNs from Kindle editions on non-English editions unless the non-English one is the original edition and it’s easy to find information on it, but if you would prefer them to be separate editions before you merge them, let me know and I’ll ask staff.)

10. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... – Duplicate of ISBN 9788426421388

11. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780670001651

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12. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – This edition is a newer ACE of ISBN 9788426413451, but the older edition still has the ASIN. The following steps need to be carried out:

12A. Create the following ACE:

TITLE: Eichmann en Jerusalén: un estudio sobre la banalidad del mal
AUTHOR: Hannah Arendt
TRANSLATOR: Carlos Ribalta
ISBN-10: 8426413455
ISBN-13: 9788426413451
ASIN: 8426413455
PUBLISHER: Lumen
DATE PUBLISHED: December 17, 2019
NUMBER OF PAGES: 448
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION:

El gran estudio sobre el Holocausto, un ensayo de lectura imprescindible e inolvidable.

A partir del juicio que en 1961 se llevó a cabo contra Adolf Eichmann, teniente coronel de la SS y uno de los mayores criminales de la historia, Hannah Arendt estudia en este ensayo las causas que propiciaron el Holocausto y el papel equívoco que desempeñaron en tal genocidio los consejos judíos -cuestión que, en su época, fue motivo de una airada controversia-, así como la naturaleza y la función de la justicia, aspecto que la lleva a plantear la necesidad de instituir un tribunal internacional capaz de juzgar crímenes contra la humanidad.

Poco a poco, la mirada lúcida y penetrante de Arendt va desentrañando la personalidad del acusado, analiza su contexto social y político y su rigor intachable a la hora de organizar la deportación y el exterminio de las comunidades judías. Al mismo tiempo, la filósofa alemana estudia la colaboración o la resistencia en la aplicación de la Solución Final por parte de algunas naciones ocupadas y expone problemas cuya trascendencia sigue determinando la escena política de nuestros días.

Más de cincuenta años después de su publicación, Eichmann en Jerusalén sigue siendo uno de los mejores estudios sobre el Holocausto, un ensayo de lectura inaplazable para entender lo que sin duda fue la gran tragedia del siglo XX.

EDITION LANGUAGE: Spanish
COVER ART: https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.co... // https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

12B. Merge it with the above linked edition.

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13. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – This edition is a newer ACE of ISBN 9788483460665, but the older edition still has the ASIN. The following steps need to be carried out:

13A. Create the following ACE:

TITLE: Eichmann en Jerusalén: un estudio sobre la banalidad del mal
AUTHOR: Hannah Arendt
TRANSLATOR: Carlos Ribalta
ISBN-10: 8483460661
ISBN-13: 9788483460665
ASIN: 8483460661
PUBLISHER: Debolsillo
DATE PUBLISHED: July 22, 2025
NUMBER OF PAGES: 448
FORMAT: Paperback
DESCRIPTION: [same as the other Spanish description]
EDITION LANGUAGE: Spanish
COVER ART: https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.co... // https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...

13B. Merge it with the above linked edition.

Regarding 1,7,11: These editions with 1964 date claim to be "Revised and enlarged of 1963 first edition". Are they not a different editions than ISBN 9780670001651?

1 and 11 say "revised and enlarged edition" but are using the cover art from and a photo of the original edition that was published before the revised edition, so I was going off of the included images. 7 doesn't have an image, but it's labeled as a hardcover and the revised/expanded edition is a paperback.

If you'd rather merge them with the first Revised/Expanded edition, it's available here (albeit without an ISBN or a note in the Editions field saying that it's revised and expanded): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

1,7,11: Done. Thanks for the clarification. I'll go by the cover as you originally suggested.
2. The covers are not the same
3, 6. Done
4. I want to be sure I'm getting this right. I see a cover change made by support, which I can't undo, nor can I see what it was before. Are you saying the the cover used before the change was the one from https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/62456... ? If so, how do you suggest I fix it? As I said, I cannot change the cover art.
5. Done (merged with default)
8. Done
9. I think the correct action here is to ask support to move the ISBN from the Kindle to the ebook.
10. Done

Thanks for catching that on #2. I meant to put in that it's a duplicate of 9788483460665, but now that I look closer 9788483460665 is also slightly different. Best to leave #2 alone for now I guess.

4. What happened was:

- ISBN-13 9780141931593/ISBN-10 0141931590 was originally the UK ebook edition, but when the bot freaked out and deleted tens of thousands of ebook editions en masse back in 2024, it was incorrectly merged with the UK Kindle edition (ASIN B002RI97KC)

- The other day, I ask Staff to remove the UK ebook ISBNs from the UK Kindle and use them to create a new ebook edition using the ISBNs and the information available on UK publisher site, which I included in my message.

- Instead of using all of the information provided, they created an edition that is incorrectly using the US cover art and didn't even bother to put the ISBNs in. Thanks for that, Staff.

- As such, I was requesting https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6..., a duplicate of the UK ebook with the correct cover art, to be merged with https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6..., the UK ebook (it has the correct ISBN-10 in the ASIN field, as per policy) but with incorrect cover art and missing ISBNs, while preserving the duplicate's cover art since it's the correct one (as seen on the Penguin UK website).

If you're unable to change the cover art in the merge process, I'll let staff know that it's a problem they need to fix (as well as asking to separate the ISBN for the Italian ebook, if I'm able to easily find its information online).

Are you able to put the ISBN-10 and -13 in on https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...?

Just giving this a bump to see if there are any updates on things.

Superlibrarians cannot move ISBNs.
I see the the book with ISBN 9780141931593 has the wrong cover, which was set by staff. Superlibrarians cannot change covers set by staff.
I think that requesting a merge is mudding the water. I suggest you ask support to correct the cover on the book with ISBN 9780141931593 using the cover on the publisher's website. Hopefully they don't botch this up further.
Once they do that, we can merge any duplicates.

Will do, thank you!

12-13. The requirement to move the ISBN to the newer edition holds only for new ACEs created after the policy change. I marked both of these as ACEs.

All the rest are done.

Thank you for your help. Staff updated the cover on the UK ebook edition to the correct one, so the merge on #4 can be carried out now. Will reach out to staff about the Italian edition so the #9 merge can be carried out as well.

#4 Done