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EAN is not ISBN

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1.mau.
Gen 5, 2020, 9:51 am

Ok, I admit I am a bit annoyed when I see a ISBN-10 label instead of the present ISBN-13, but I can live with that. However I cannot stand that in that case EAN is copied verbatim, like in Where Do Numbers Come From? (no touchstone, because the only one I found is utterly wrong: my version, added from Amazon UK, is at https://www.librarything.com/work/edit/177200584 ). EAN is inherently a 13-digit code. Is it possible to have such codes corrected?

2bnielsen
Modificato: Gen 7, 2020, 1:58 am

I'm not quite sure I understand >1 .mau.: so here goes:
This book: "Where Do Numbers Come From? by T. W. Körner" seems to have ISBN 9781108768863
according to the publishers:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/where-do-numbers-come-from/A6244ADFE1954F29...

I fail to see the problem. Where do you see an EAN number rather than the ISBN?
(ISBN-13 is just EAN numbers starting with 978 or 979, but I think you already know that.)

ETA: It seems like I have access to the book via our local university, so I'll be reading it later today. Thanks for the link.

ETA^2: (copied from the text of the electronic version:)
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Korner, T. W. (Thomas William), 1946– author.
Title: Where do numbers come from? / T.W. Korner (University of Cambridge).
Description: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Identifiers: LCCN 2019020770 | ISBN 9781108488068
Subjects: LCSH: Number theory. | Mathematics – Philosophy.
Classification: LCC QA241 .K6697 2020 | DDC 512.7–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020770
ISBN 978-1-108-48806-8 Hardback
ISBN 978-1-108-73838-5 Paperback
Additional resources for this publication at www.cambridge.org/9781108488068.

4.mau.
Gen 7, 2020, 3:33 pm

>2 bnielsen: When editing my personal version of the book, there is a section "identifiers", which contains various fields:

Barcode
BCID -
EAN 1108738389
UPC
ASIN 1108738389
LCCN
OCLC

Only Barcode and BCID can be modified, the other ones are automatically imported (by amazon.co.uk, in my case).

5SandraArdnas
Gen 7, 2020, 3:37 pm

You can't edit them, but you can enter/edit ISBN, so I'm unsure what the problem is

6.mau.
Gen 8, 2020, 1:28 am

>5 SandraArdnas:: it's just to see a wrong data :-)

7SandraArdnas
Modificato: Gen 8, 2020, 5:55 am

You mean the EAN it pulled from amazon is wrong? That's peculiar, but short of reporting it to amazon and reentering the book once they fix it, there's no way to correct it. Libraries are far more reliable sources, so it's better to stick to them whenever possible. https://www.worldcat.org/title/where-do-numbers-come-from/oclc/1100599081 lists libraries that have this book, so you can try using one of those as a source. IIRC, LIBRIS is among sources available through LT, perhaps some others too

Edit: Both British library and LC have it, so just check whether they have your particular edition/ISBN