SF SQRL's comments
(member since Dec 12, 2008)
SF SQRL's comments from the Goodreads Librarians group.
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People in the Middle Ages were often identified by their trade, or where they came from, so you could try that. Or perhaps put the book or series name in brackets?
There is no difference in principle: the money comes from the advertiser's customers; not from the site/event's customers.But yeah, the outrage is pathetic.
Er...the money earned from advertising is aggregated from the advertisers' income. They don't look at their customer base and only take a percentage from those who also use GR....If the building society I'm with sponsors a sporting event, I'm still paying for that event whether I go or not.
How do you know? They may have already bought extensively from GR's advertisers.
I didn't say it was the same as pay-for-use; I contested the claim that users have paid 'absolutely nothing' :).
How do you know they've paid nothing? With services supported by advertising, there's no way for anyone to assess how much they may have contributed.
Now my head hurts :).
Thanks, Melody :).
Please delete this one:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64415...
It's an empty edition that was added with wrong title and wrong author name. Has now been combined with all its pals so should merge when deleted :). Thanks!
Welcome to the joys of librarianship :D.
On the second point, if you go to the book's page, click on More editions... you should see a list of available editions, each with a "Switch to this edition" link. Just click the one you want :).
At least that's what my husband believes ;).
Add the edition that's not in the database and then combine them.
Woot!
Mostly I put English titles in where the book has been translated from English; it's not hard to find the English title in places like Wikipedia and add it. And no, I don't want to have to click through for librarian notes every time I'm checking a book's been combined correctly. Too much unnecessary work.
*hugs* coffee?Also, we don't add editors in the way it's been done here. But apart from that....
I don't think we would normally include the editor for a novel; editors usually appear on anthologies and collections and the like.I'd reduce this to the author, and maybe stick the cover artist in the description field.
Eh, we all make mistakes :).
Well, that bug still isn't fixed.
Please don't turn GR into Wiki. It's good as it is!
