Isis FG's comments
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Isis FG's comments from the Goodreads Librarians group.
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There's a thread with someone having the same or a similar problem over in the Feedback group. The person said they keep changing a description and it keeps reverting back to one from Amazon with bad formatting and raw HTML.http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2274...
Got the one from msg 498.
I'll work on the translations probably tomorrow night. I've got some sites bookmarked with translation info for her. Thanks for working on that, Paula!
I just came across this because Trivia About My Books asked me about a book I'd never read...
But someone combined a whole bunch of Sandra Brown books that should not be combined. And I mean A LOT...several screens length.
I don't have time to work on it tonight so I'm passing it along to someone who is not so tired (I just got home from work). And unfortunately, there are a lot of translations in that group (which I spent a lot of time on a while back getting them combined). I can work on those again in the next day or two if someone can get the rest mostly sorted out.
Thanks!
Eva - the one from msg 381 had an ISBN so I NOT A BOOKd it.
Deleted the one from msg 379 and the first one from 380 (that one, someone took the year published, added some zeroes and made it the ISBN...creative, I guess).But the last one...I'm not sure about. At first I thought it was maybe a pre-ISBN book. But then the cover image uploaded doesn't even match the title listed. So I'm not sure what should be done with that one.
I got the ones from msgs 364, 365 and, 366. Someone beat me to the one in 367.
*Poof*;)
No way for a Super to do that, as far as I know (at least I have no idea how to do it). But the GR admin people might be able to look into it.
rivka wrote: "I noticed that.Bootleg does seem most likely. I'd combine it with the parent volume and delete it.
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Combined and poofed.
Hmm...odd, according to Enoch's website, her novella in that book was called "A Touch of Scandal"...err, that's weird, because to double check, I pulled the book off my bookshelf and checked and in the book it's called "The Best of Both Worlds"...looks like she has a goof on her site.
Anyway, I found no reference to it being available elsewhere separately as an ebook. A Google search showed it coming up bootleg on torrent sites.
My opinion is that it isn't a valid entry. Someone probably read only that novella out of the ebook and made an entry for it. I've come across that a few times recently...and actually, the person who made this entry is the same one who did two others I came across.
Leslie^Kelly - Contemporary romance authorhttp://www.goodreads.com/author/show/566...
Leslie^^Kelly - Writer of technical manuals/handbooks
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/313...
Not sure if this issue has been brought up before or not, but I came across these - link 1, link 2.It's basically a one click kindle download for the Harlequin Blaze volumes sold in a particular month (6 books). The books are all available individually on GR. Are they valid book entries or should they be NAB'd?
Also not sure about this entry. I'm guessing it was a free online read offered by Harlequin. This one I think is okay to leave, but I wanted to check.
Got it, JG.
Thanks, Otis!We all appreciate how hard you work on this site and how you listen to all our opinions :)
I don't mind that we are getting covers from B&N that we otherwise wouldn't have, but I don't like the fact that poorer quality images are replacing nicer ones.It seems like it would be more useful if a B&N image was only added if there was no available one from Amazon.
Found yet another books where it looks like a less nice image from B&N has overridden a better Amazon cover. The large thumbnail of the B&N version is so much smaller than the Amazon one. (haven't yet deleted this one...I'll leave it for now so Otis can see)
...so far, I'm not impressed with the B&N cover images
This is another book that looks to have gotten an overriding B&N image that wasn't as nice as the Amazon one.(I deleted the B&N one)
I saw it too for this book. I had just read it and checked/completed the data and the book cover was correct. Then I noticed a week or so later that the cover was off...the color of the author's name and the title are weird. The log showed no one changing the cover but when I deleted it, the right one showed back up.Now I just checked it again, and the weird one is back. So it looks like it's related to this B&N issue.
Plus, B&N apparently doesn't have a full size cover. The large thumbnail is much smaller than the Amazon large thumbnail.
I do agree, though, that the warning that instigated this topic was not necessary.Forgot that in my last post...
