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Rinou wrote: "I don't have many default editions, so I tried with The Fellowship of the Ring edition 143951836X. Each chapter has a number and a name, so I put both. Is it correct?"
I think you will need to include book number as well. Something like:
Book 1 - Chapter 1 - A Long-expected Party
I know what you mean about default editions. They all seem to be US editions, at least for the titles I own, including lots of editions of all the Tolkien books.
I wrote Book I and Book II for the first chapter of each book, as the numbering goes back to chapter 1 in the middle of the book.
Eat, Pray, Love is done.Found a work around for the chapter numbering. No matter what order you add chapters, it will reorder them according to page number.
So, for instance, for Eat, Pray, Love I told it 109 chapters, just did chapters 1-108 in order and then made "chapter 109" the introduction on page 1. Once it was saved, it was in the correct order. No more editing chapter numbers!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is done.Patrick, I noticed the default editions for the Harry Potter series vary in format (some trade paperback and some are hardcover). Is it okay to go ahead and enter the chapter data for all the hardcovers? Those are the only format I have of this series.
Seems I don't have any default editions...: (
Paperback of The Design of Everyday Things http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... done (ISBN 0385267746)
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So, for instance, for Eat, Pray, Love I told it 109 chapters, just did chapters 1-108 in order and then made "chapter 109" the introduction on page 1. Once it was saved, it was in the correct order. No more editing chapter numbers!"
Clever!
mlady_rebecca wrote: "Once you hit "save" the first time, it reverts the changes after any additional edits."*bump*
Am I the only one with this issue? I have one record about 90% done, but it won't let me make any additional changes.
mlady_rebecca wrote: "mlady_rebecca wrote: "Once you hit "save" the first time, it reverts the changes after any additional edits."*bump*
Am I the only one with this issue? I have one record about 90% done, but it wo..."
I hit "save" by mistake on my first one, and panicked...but it let me save further edits. So I'm not having this issue.
Brenda (b) wrote: "It happened to me on one of the ones I did. I figured it was my connection because it had hiccuped about then. I ended up having to delete all the chapters and start over from scratch."That would be a pain, given it was a book with chapter titles, not just numbers. But if the staff doesn't respond sometime Tuesday, maybe I'll give it a try.
Ok, I have some of the books, I should get to it in a couple of hours, since I'm at work now. Once we finish that list, will it be possible to do it for other books too? Because, from what I saw before in some other books, there's no "edit chapters" link.
Otl1987 wrote: "Ok, I have some of the books, I should get to it in a couple of hours, since I'm at work now. Once we finish that list, will it be possible to do it for other books too? Because, from what I saw be..."I believe this is just a test run to see if it's worth going forward with the whole catalogue.
Ok! I just finished Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children! Someone check it out and tell me if it's ok. Do we need to chapter the aknowledgements as well?
I'm trying to do Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but I kept getting 504 timeout errors.Unfortunately my attempts to retry ended up with three copies of the chapter list, which I
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I've done Fantine, Books 1 through 3 in Les Misérables. I'll do more when I have time, but if anyone else would like to contribute, have at it! (I got a timeout error when I hit Save after filling in Book 1, so additional chapters have to be added manually.)
Greetings :)I'm interested in tackling A Game of Thrones or The Stand. For the latter, I have the re-released "uncensored" version. I'm assuming that the info I input will correspond to ~that~ edition?
C-Cose wrote: "Greetings :)I'm interested in tackling A Game of Thrones or The Stand. For the latter, I have the re-released "uncensored" version. I'm assuming that the info I input will correspond to ~that~ ed..."
Only if you go to that edition's book page and click edit. If you use the link here, you'll be going to the most popular edition.
Lindsey wrote: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is done.Patrick, I noticed the default editions for the Harry Potter series vary in format (some trade paperback and some are hardcover). Is it okay to go ah..."
Sorry, just saw this now. Feel free to do the paperbacks or hardcovers of those. Either way. Thanks!
❂ Jennifer wrote: "Otl1987 wrote: "Ok, I have some of the books, I should get to it in a couple of hours, since I'm at work now. Once we finish that list, will it be possible to do it for other books too? Because, fr..."Correct, this is just a test run. We want to see how it does before opening it up to all books.
I did The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but not the default edition. I did this one.Question: Should Part 1, etc., be included if the chapters don't start over at the beginning of each part? For example, in this book, the chapters are numbered, and just go straight through from beginning to end. So, is it necessary to say Part 1: Chapter 1, etc.? Uglies is the same, but without numbers at all. It's split into parts, but the chapters are just named, not numbered. So I didn't include parts there either.
Would it make sense to include each Part as a "chapter" if it starts on a separate page?
Les Mis is done through Fantine, Book 6.
Phil wrote: "Would it make sense to include each Part as a "chapter" if it starts on a separate page?"I thought about that, too, but then I was thinking, if this is for linking quotes, etc., to a certain chapter, nothing would be linked to the part anyway.
I've completed a non-default edition of Game of Thrones as I ony have the 1st US hardcover edition (1996). I also amended the pg count and added a secondary photo of the original dust jacket cover to the photos.
Lianne wrote:"Phil wrote: "Would it make sense to include each Part as a "chapter" if it starts on a separate page?"
I thought about that, too, but then I was thinking, if this is for linking quotes, etc., to a certain chapter, nothing would be linked to the part anyway."
Sometimes there will be some kind of aphorism on the Part page, so you'd want to be able to distinguish that from the tag-end of the previous chapter.
Maybe it would make sense to introduce some kind of hierarchical structure, particularly if this is extended to books with heaps of appendices and stuff.
You make a good point, Phil. A hierarchical structure would be nice, though I wonder how hard it would be to implement.I did my edition of The Hunger Games. For this one, I included the names of the parts. Eg. Part 1: The Tributes: Chapter 1 and Part 2: The Games: Chapter 10, even though the chapters don't start over for each part. Whatever ends up being the standard on this, I'll go back and change the ones I've done differently.
Non-default editions of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, & Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are done.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban redone because it apparently didn't save the first time.
That means the whole HP series is done for the hardcover editions.
In post 28, Patrick wrote: "mlady_rebecca wrote: "Do you want "parts" labeled as well as chapters? I'm working on Quiet, a non-fiction book on introversion."Do it like Part 1 Chapter 1, Part 1 Chapter 2, etc.
Kara, I think we probably would want those chapters but put the name of the part they are from in front of them. If the book is broken up that way, that's what we want to know..."
In post 34, Patrick wrote: "mlady_rebecca wrote: "The parts also have titles. Just skip the titles?"
I guess list it for the first chapter, but then don't bother after that. In other words, "Part 1 The Beginning Chapter 1, Part 1 Chapter 2" etc. ..."
Thanks for the work you guys have done so far. I will update the list shortly. A few quick updates on our end:-- We've made it so you can see whether chapter metadata has been entered or not on the edit book page. If it looks wrong, you can go in and correct it.
-- There is a checkmark that shows if the metadata has been entered for the default edition of the book, and if it hasn't, you can change the default chapter edition to the one you're working on. Please don't do this unless you see that someone else has changed it incorrectly. It won't change which edition shows in search or anything like that, but unless there's an outlier (like the default edition is an audiobook), let's leave default editions as they are.
Let me know if any of that is unclear.
I have been trying to do this for Dracula - however I can't get to the edit chapter. I've answered the metadata questions on the whole book, but I see no edit chapter data link!
Thomas wrote: "I have been trying to do this for Dracula - however I can't get to the edit chapter. I've answered the metadata questions on the whole book, but I see no edit chapter data link!"It's not in with the other metadata...it's on the edit page, near the bottom...same place as series, characters, book settings edit links.
Thomas wrote: "I have been trying to do this for Dracula - however I can't get to the edit chapter. I've answered the metadata questions on the whole book, but I see no edit chapter data link!"Thomas, you don't have librarian status yet, which is why you can't see it. If you want, I can grant you that status. Let me know.
Non-default editions of Assassin's Apprentice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fellowship of the Ring, and The Hobbit now have chapter data. These editions are all the #2 or #3 most rated.
Non defaut edition of Dracula (edition 0451523377) done
Added for Fifty Shades of Grey (ISBN: 1612130291)
I just did the ebook edition (non-default) of Deliriumhttp://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
and the default edition of Beautiful Disaster:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
But what is exactly the purpose of chapter metadata? (how would you use them and how could they be useful to readers?)
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Each chapter has a number and a name, so I put both. Is it correct?