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Phil in SF commented on Combee by Edda L. Fields-Black

Edda L. Fields-Black: Combee (Hardcover, 2024, Oxford University Press)

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The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based …

And with the addition of this book, I've now completed the Pulitzer Price for History list on SFBA.club (sfba.club/list/115/s/pulitzer-prize-for-history). If you follow me, there should be a version of the list on your server. I've added descriptions and high quality covers on SFBA.club; what shows up on other servers may be a crapshoot.

pootriarch replied to Phil in SF's status

@kingrat why is federation so haphazard on bookwyrm? do you know if this is a design flaw or a feature?

Phil in SF replied to pootriarch's status

@pootriarch Reviews, comments and quotes are federated nicely. Even lists mostly are. But federating the book database itself is hard. When is an author the same author? When is a book the same book? When is it okay to override what someone entered for a book with what someone else put on another server?

pootriarch replied to Phil in SF's status

@kingrat hmm, yeah. hard questions all—only the ISBN really identifies any of that and it only maps to a specific edition, without knowing how to group with other editions of the same book, much less author. and since not every server has all books all the time, different people importing and modifying could make a real mess.