Sherry's comments
(member since Nov 08, 2008)
Sherry's comments from the Goodreads Librarians group.
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Bravo!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67947...Have joined you. this ones merged - needs a super user to delete
You've got this right. I haven't checked, but did you add this to the disambiguation posts as well?
Rivka posted a zip file at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1468...Try this to create a generic book cover.
Charles W.^Carter Jr. : Scientist- enzymology http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/258...Charles W.^^Carter Jr. : Theologian http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/293...
This actually seems to be clear. Volume could also be added in the description.
Lindig wrote: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(novelist)I did have them backwards. And here's the Wikipedia page on the novelist."
Lindig wrote:
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_(novelist)
I did have them backwards. And here's the Wikipedia page on the novelist."
Absolutely. that's what took a while to get them sorted out. Plus someone had originally merged "CHURCHILL" into the prime minister. I've got it straight for now.
In addition, there is a great existing librarian's note for both authors.
Just when I think I have this down pat ...for Winston S. Churchill
He wrote a 4 volume set that I think I have correctly separated into the individual volumes and then the complete set. However, I think that there are every single one of the permutations of title, subtitle, sub-subtitle and volumes for each book. No wonder that they were a mess.
as an example: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10082...
The Entire set is the "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"
Each Volume has a different subtitle: The Birth of Britian - in this case
And a unique sub-subtitle: 55 B.C. to 1485
as well as a Volume number: #1.
Don't think that this is a series - it's a book in 4 volumes.
Do we have a convention on the correct format for this?
Subtitle: Sub-subtitle (Set Title, #Vol) ??
There is a really helpful link about Cliffs Notes that I think covers this topic pretty well:http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2623...
with the following summary:
" I have found the authors by the LoC. So to be clear:
slot 1: author of the cliff notes (or Sparks Notes etc ...)
slot 2: author: Cliffs Notes (or Sparks Notes etc ...)
slot 3: author of book being cliff noted "
See the Cliffs Notes edition of CITR - The Catcher in the Rye as an example.
Hope this helps.
I'd love a more Boolean search algorithm. (Think of searching in PubMed)
Then I could search for "Temps" or "Time" so I could combine a French and English version of the same work (as an example). or even traditional wildcards (* %) from DOS (see how old I am!).
Is this clear, or should I keep writing ....
Otis wrote: "Show all would defeat the purpose of having the pagination. The issue is that on larger books there is so much data that to load it all takes too much time, and overwhelms our database, not to men..."
I know, I just thought that may be it could be there just as an option. (In case of emergencies!)
Overall,the split combine page works really well - it absolutely speeds things up, it's just that the join across pages is a little clunky ...
Thanks.
What about a "show all" option?
This way, the 500 limit is there and for most cases works really well, but if you want to join across pages you need to use the work around of adding common text, searching, combining, deleting the added common text.
When I shop, there is often a drop down at the bottom of the page to ask how many items per page I want to view. Perhaps somewhere on the combine page, there could be an option to "show all".
(Does this go here or in the Feedback group?)
Melody wrote: "It's there. For some crazy reason page since they broke the "combine editions" into more than one page - they don't alphabetize correctly. Your entry is on page two. You can filter by words to sh..."
Having the works be alphabetized correctly would really be very useful, or even a "show all" option as an overide to the automatically parsed pages. I'm off to the feedback group.
Please delete thishttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64930...
Seems to be one of those incidents where the reader rated the "whole series" rather than the individual books. No ISBN.
This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For wrote: "I would tend to leave the individual titles out of the book title, put them in the description and make the title something along the lines of "Goosebumps Collection #3 (Goosebumps, #xx-xx)""
I like this one the best. you can still find a specific book on a search, the series # info in the parentheses will match the usual series formatting suggestions, and the title from the cover art, as Cait mentioned, remains the title.
Sold.
Cait wrote: "Sherry, that one seems to be actually titled "Goosebumps Collection #3", as far as I can tell from the cover art, so that's how the title should read. Putting the included titles as subtitles is a..."
So
Goosebumps Collection #3: Girl Who Cried Monster / Welcome to Camp Nightmare / Ghost Next Door (Goosebumps Collections)
Yes?
Not sure why the subtitles of the books are in quotes. Aren't they usually just separated by a forward slash?
Still trying to clean up R.L. Stine.
Just to confirm:
for http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20087...
As it is now:
Goosebumps Collection #3: "Girl Who Cried Monster", "Welcome to Camp Nightmare", "Ghost Next Door" (Goosebumps - Collections, #3)
Should be
Girl Who Cried Monster / Welcome to Camp Nightmare / Ghost Next Door (Goosebumps Collections, #3)
Have I got it right?
Speaking of Dumas,http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64107...
No ISBN, not sure what this is.
Does anyone know?
Nope, didn't work.
I'm game. I'll try it next time.
