[k_sze]

Cool idea. One thing that’s annoying about dealing with books (not just this platform in particular) is that there can be multiple editions of the same book where the contents are essentially the same. This is especially true for work that is really old or in the public domain. E.g. if I put “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” in the search field, it turns up many different editions. I’m not sure which conversation to join. I get the feeling that the conversation/community might get fragmented all over the place.

Unfortunately I don’t have a real solution to this, short of crowdsourcing for data entry to mark editions as equivalent and merge the conversations that way.

[santoshmaharshi]

Very true. You seem to have worked on this :-) Trying to solve this problem. Will try to post you.

[k_sze]

And then there's the question of whether you want to consider translations to be equivalent.