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Edition date in year only
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barb_dNov 23, 2025
When adding a new book manually, the system asks for a full edition publication date (year, month, day). Other sources never cite the full date, just the year, so I end up entering random months and days.
Request: allow entering edition date by year only.
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I would really, really love to see this implemented. I hate leaving the publication date blank, even though it's very well known what year the book was published! Most older books never specify the full date, so I can only imagine how many books have missing or wrong information in this field now.
barb_d rather than putting in a fake date I would recommend leaving it blank if you don’t know the exact date. If it’s blank it will be in a “queue” for a librarian to update but if you just put in a random date it will not go in that “queue” to be updated and will only ever get corrected if someone reports it as the wrong date.