Book cards should show the number of pages

[el4ctr0n]

Proposal

Dear developers,
Would you please consider adding the number of pages to book cards?

Here's how it would look:

Thank you for considering my suggestion.

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[Craig-Rosario]

I believe there is a section where it tells the number of pages in each book.

Putting page number in the book card seems like a good idea (for better UX), but would need a confirmation from one of the maintainers/leads.

Once confirmation is given, I'd like to work on the issue

[mekarpeles]

Thank you for the proposal + design

Showing "5 editions" and then showing "702" pages is somewhat inconsistent because the page count refers to a specific edition. It also requires page count to be in edition solr (maybe it is?). We need to be careful about how data is grouped and what data we show on these results.

Edition information like the language, the number of pages, date published, and publisher may be useful, though it would take some thought on grouping and the cards are already quite crowded.

Pinging @seabelis in case she has opinions here, though I'm inclined to leave as is for now.

[el4ctr0n]

Showing "5 editions" and then showing "702" pages is somewhat inconsistent because the page count refers to a specific edition. It also requires page count to be in edition solr (maybe it is?). We need to be careful about how data is grouped and what data we show on these results.

@mekarpeles

In cases where there are several editions with different page counts, perhaps the biggest page count should be displayed on the book card.

Fortunately, page count variations between editions are never too large, so the page count from the edition with the most pages is a broadly correct indicator for how detailed one should expect a given book to be.

The lack of a page count on the book card often makes it impossible to distinguish a brief overview type of book from a hefty tome without clicking through and scrolling down to the page count in the Book Details.

[seabelis]

Don't display pages unless the card features a specific edition. Works don't have page counts. Untrue that page counts have little variation. Large print, illustrated, annotated, educational, and editions with "bonus material" can vary greatly.