parrais's comments (member since Apr 07, 2009)

parrais's comments from the Goodreads Librarians group.

I know it's a bit late, but Ctrl-Alt-e gives me é, on my UK keyboard under XP. I don't know if US keyboards are the same.

Carolyn wrote: "Since none of these options will be a quick fix, can we at least agree to something like not NABbing periodicals for the time being, especially anything that has been manually added or has been edi..."

Oops, I NABbed all the copies of Dragon magazine and Dungeon magazine before seeing this thread!

In my defence, they are clearly magazines - sold on news-stands, dated and (for most of their run) stapled. Very few of them had a rating, and none (as far as I saw) had had any work done on them by other librarians. They all just listed the editor as the author - not very satisfactory. Also, many issues were missing from the database altogether (or had already been NABbed by someone else).

Can someone please clarify if picture books with no text (except the title & 'author' on the front and credits/ISBN/barcode on the back) should be on Goodreads?

My instinct says yes, even for those with unusual bindings (e.g. waterproof), but I see some have been marked as 'not a books':
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53854...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73451...
(In fact, I think these may even have text in...)

What's the consensus on these?

Christine^Schneider: Various
Christine^^Schneider: Role-playing games

David^Schwartz: Various
David^^Schwartz: Role-playing games

Tim^Hitchcock: History
Tim^^Hitchcock: Role-playing games

(First time I've done this; I hope I've got it right!)

You should probably be aware that for Discworld, the young adult books are not considered as part of the main series. For example, 'Making Money' is considered book 32, not 36 (citation).

Therefore 'Wintersmith' isn't book 35, it'd probably be better to entitle it 'Wintersmith (Discworld Young Adult, #4)' or something similar - although others may have a better suggestion.