User blog:SusannahWithAnH/Researching Book Editions and Covers

Greetings, kindred spirits! My name is Ginny and if you didn't know me before, you know me now. (I'm an admin here.)

One of the many ways you can help out on this wiki is to add more information about editions of books about and related to Anne. This includes uploading book covers (make sure to get the best quality possible and that we don't have it already), info about the various editions – this includes date, country and language of publication, publisher, ISBN, etc. The pages this sort of information is documented on are (but not limited to):
 * Study:Languages
 * Study:Translations
 * Gallery:Anne of Green Gables
 * Gallery:Anne of Avonlea
 * Gallery:Anne of the Island
 * Gallery:Anne of Windy Poplars
 * Gallery:Anne's House of Dreams
 * Gallery:Anne of Ingleside
 * Gallery:Rainbow Valley
 * Gallery:Rilla of Ingleside
 * Gallery:Anne of Green Gables series
 * Gallery:Chronicles of Avonlea
 * Gallery:Further Chronicles of Avonlea
 * Gallery:The Road to Yesterday
 * Gallery:Before Green Gables
 * Gallery:The Blythes Are Quoted

I recommend the L.M. Montgomery Literary Society for researching book editions and covers. The LMM Literary Society also produce a periodical devoted to LMM and her works, called The Shining Scroll. As far as periodicals go, it's a pretty good one, with well-researched and up-to-date LMM stuff. Many of the articles are available via free PDF downloads, and I've used some of them to find more about particular editions of the Anne of Green Gables books.

If you want to collect pictures of book covers, a good place to start is of course a Google Images search, but there is a very large gallery – one of the largest, I believe – at http://www.lmm-anne.net/bookcovers/. I'm not sure if it's still being updated, and some of the information is not quite accurate, but it's still pretty good.

Anyway, that's a start. Well, I hope you have fun!

Ginny