internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

Improve layout of the "edit This Edition" page

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Affects: Librarians Lead: @mekarpeles Priority: 3 Theme: Editing Type: Feature Request
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Description

I am constantly searching for the fields "Is it known by any other titles?", "Any notes about this specific edition?" and "What work is this an edition of?" field on the "edit This Edition" page. It would be great if the fields could be more easily distinguished.

Also, the page seems tediously long to scroll, this is elevated by the fact that the middle part is less often used then the top (basic information) and bottom part (page numbers, kind of book).

### Describe the problem that you'd like solved

Order the possible entry fields on the Edit Edition pages that makes it easier to find these smaller entry fields, which are somewhat overwhelmed by the bigger fields in front of them.

Putting often used fields closer to each other, and less often used fields farther away.

### Proposal & Constraints

Analyse librarians workflow on the edit page and design an edit book page that conforms more closely to how librarians use it.

### Additional context

![Screenshot 2022-12-21 at 17-01-56 Finnegans wake Open Library](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/36878944/208949007-b1d117dc-7fb4-411f-9cf1-455715472abf.png)

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/issues/7261 (This is a part of Improve OpenLibrary's User Interface to make librarians work easier)

### Stakeholders

Probably Samuel and Dana.

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