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webapp coupled to the inventaire server :books:
https://inventaire.io
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Display the edition's information instead of the book's #95

Open thewholelifetolearn opened 7 years ago

thewholelifetolearn commented 7 years ago

When I click on an exemplar on the starting site, I have first the information of the book then the information of the edition.
I think it should be the other way round. The information displayed should be the edition's one with the book's and underneath, links to other editions.

I think that most people don't think as "I have an edition of a book" but "I have a book" that is indeed an edition. That also means, that when common properties of all editions are changed (title, author, subject, ...), they should be modified trough an edition and not a distinct book page.

maxlath commented 7 years ago

That's a real difficulty there, the current interface is more or less a direct mapping of how the data is structured: the work holds some data common to all editions, while editions hold their specific data, but those internal subtilities should probably not be thrown at the user's face; they should be able to use the interface without this knowledge, at least until they try to contribute to data improvement (in which case, interface could be built with slightly more expert users in mind, I guess).

Could you take a screenshot of the precise page that made you open this issue? I'm not sure which one you are referring to.

thewholelifetolearn commented 7 years ago

As you mention, the internal mechanism shouldn't be a reason for the user to have a complex UI.

There is no special page that made me open this issue. It is more the time I took to understand on what kind of page I'm landing and what are the information.