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Member	Item		Review/Comment
TopPopper 27th Sep 2015		Book Michael Braun - Love Me Do! (1964)	Despite only being a short paperback, and only having been written early in their careers, this is still one of the better Beatles books in my view. I used to have a much later edition - sadly gone, I think, but I'll check in the loft next time I'm up there.
TopPopper 26th Sep 2015		Book Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914)	Changed to Tressell then. The Tressall spelling is just an historical oddity.
TopPopper 26th Sep 2015		Book Morrissey - Autobiography (2013)	For my two penneth - I thought the standard of writing at the start was cringeable, with forced word-plays like "a glimmer of glamour" - but it got better and better as it went. I'm guessing Mozza literally started at the beginning and gradually hit his stride. Worth a read for sure. His account of the Smiths lawsuit originally had me agreeing with him, but the more he went on, the more I saw the other side of it!
TopPopper 26th Sep 2015		Book Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914)	This book throws up a number of practical issues. 1. To me, this is basically the first edition, but as the page above shows, it is a 1927 reprint. I've entered it as 1914, and it carries a "Preface to the First Edition" - but also a "Foreword to the 1927 Edition". Should I change it to 1927? 2. The author's pen-name Tressall was wrongly spelt by the publisher. When the complete manuscript was published many years later, this was finally corrected to Tressell - when those editions go up, we'll have the same book with two different authors! 3. Or, will we? The later editions are at least three times as long, and with the different name spelling - will they be considered separate, or just a continuation of same? The full edition permanently replaced this shortened one after it was published.
TopPopper 26th Sep 2015		Book Wilfrid Mellers - Twilight Of The Gods (1976)	I scanned the publication history page. What do people think of this? Should it be a standard thing to do? It helps keep track of where the various editions fall.
TopPopper 26th Sep 2015		Book F. W. Gaisberg - Music On Record (1946)	I think so personally. On reflection, I also think we ought to keep the plain hard cover as an image, irrespective of whether we have a dust jacket. I guess this is one for the forum really.
TopPopper 25th Sep 2015		Book F. W. Gaisberg - Music On Record (1946)	So I guess we promote the dust jacket image to primary - but do we need to keep the image of the actual cover? As a general rule, I'd think not, unless it somehow mattered (say, some were blue and some were red).
TopPopper 24th Sep 2015		Book F. W. Gaisberg - Music On Record (1946)	Does anyone know if books like this always had printed dust covers? If so, I vote for waiting. But it does throw up a point to consider - I have sets of books (eg a complete set of Dickens) which all have plain hardback covers, with matching spines. Nice on the shelf but not very appealing for the site when viewed as individual front covers.

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