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Nov 19, 2012 02:43AM
A Game of Thrones is done.
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/edit/14... What chapters do I have in my pockets?
The Hobbit done (Or at least another version done - it's still showing up on the original list as NOT struck through)
Clockwork Prince is done
The edition The Host that is listed on page 1 appears to have had chapter data added. It needs to be overstruck on the list
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (my copy is 213 pages) is a collection of letters rather than chapters. It's organized as follows:
Part 1
10 letters dated 8/25/1991 through 10/28/1991
Part 2
15 letters dated 11/7/1992 through 1/1/1992
Part 3
12 letters dated 1/4/1992 through 4/26/1992
Part 4
14 letters dated 4/29/1992 through 6/22/1992
Part 5 (epilogue)
1 letter dated 8/23/1992
How should the chapter data be entered in this case?
Okay, just updated the master list again. Sorry for the delay. I had a couple of other very pressing projects that needed my attention.On the Perks of Being a Wallflower question...if each letter is its own chapter, I'd probably say they should be Part 1: [Date of the letter], etc. Would that make sense?
Patrick wrote: "Okay, just updated the master list again. Sorry for the delay. I had a couple of other very pressing projects that needed my attention.On the Perks of Being a Wallflower question...if each letter..."
When do you think this will be open to more books?
MrsJoseph wrote: "When do you think this will be open to more books?"Probably not in the near term. We're going to look at the data everyone has entered for this list and do some internal tinkering before we ask anyone to enter metadata for anymore books.
Patrick wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "When do you think this will be open to more books?"Probably not in the near term. We're going to look at the data everyone has entered for this list and do some internal tinkeri..."
Thanks for the update!
Sadly, I'm not hip to the most popular books so I'm no help here.
MrsJoseph wrote: ...Sadly, I'm not hip to the most popular books so I'm no help here. "How about the classics? I still see a few on the list but the editions that I have are not the default ones. For Jane Austen, if you have one of the right editions its simply a matter of inputting the number of chapters in the book and adding the page that each chapter stated on.
Stephen wrote: "How about the classics? I still see a few on the list but the editions that I have are not the default ones. For Jane Austen, if you have one of the right editions its simply a matter of inputting the number of chapters in the book and adding the page that each chapter stated on."All of the editions I own have been done already. The ones that haven't been done? I don't own.
It's a catch-22, lol.
Stephen wrote: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower done"Noted. Thanks.
Stephen wrote: "How about the classics? I still see a few on the list but the editions that I have are not the default ones..."MrsJoseph wrote: "All of the editions I own have been done already. The ones that haven't been done? I don't own.
It's a catch-22, lol. "
Ha! Found 1 that I could do.
But, I only have the ebook edition. I know that the preferred edition is the primary (HB in this case). In trying to do the ebook, it asks me for page numbers.
I am hesitant to add this information because page numbers are somewhat fluid on ebooks (depending on the reader in question). My edition of this book shows 554 pages while GR lists the edition as having 267 pages.
Do you have any suggestions?
MrsJoseph wrote: ...I only have the ebook edition. ...Do you have any suggestions? "
Given your situation, I'm wondering if it's worth your time at present.
I'm curious to see how the data we enter will be used. I've added chapter data to a few discussion topics about books where the chapters existed and a few quotes I think. As yet I've not seen anywhere where the data appears even after entry.
Stephen wrote: "Given your situation, I'm wondering if it's worth your time at present. I'm curious to see how the data we enter will be used. I've added chapter data to a few discussion topics about books where the chapters existed and a few quotes I think. As yet I've not seen anywhere where the data appears even after entry. "
Maybe you're right. I'm not sure how GR wants to handle something like that...
I've managed to find a French copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and added the chapters for that.
The Fault in Our Stars is done Just edited the last chapter to say Chapter Twenty-Five rather than 25. :)
Never mind, it would appear the correction isn't appearing. Is there a delay in showing changes?
Non-default edition of The Great Gatsby done.
Victoria wrote: "Never mind, it would appear the correction isn't appearing. Is there a delay in showing changes?"Problem solved. (although I had to add a new chapter and delete the one listed as 25)
Kate wrote: Problem solved. (although I had to add a new chapter and delete the one listed as..."Thought that might be the case. Thanks!
Kate wrote: "The Fault in Our Stars is done"Thanks!
I tried to do "The Omnivore's Dilemma" but keep getting "Goodreads request took too long" errors when I save. Has anyone else seen this?UPDATE: I got through, thanks.
"The Omnivore's Dilemma" is done.
Delirium and The Hunger Games default editions done
non-default edition of Wuthering Heights is done (ISBN-10: 1-59308-128-6)non-default edition of Pride & Prejudice also done (ISBN-10: 1-59308-201-0)
I tried to follow the link for a couple of books on the list of those not yet done and got the message The page you requested doesn't exist. Please check the url again, or visit the home page.Not sure if that's a problem... thought I'd mention it. Some examples:
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
The Girl Who Played With Fire
One assumes that the TOP item listed in the "add book/author" pop-up that one gets at the top of the discussion input box is the default in these cases.
Stephen wrote: "I tried to follow the link for a couple of books on the list of those not yet done and got the message The page you requested doesn't exist. Please check the url again, or visit the home page."That's because the URLs on that post are broken. If you look at the link, you can see that it's putting the URL of the book after /topic/show/. If you click the link, and then delete everything in URL before the second www you'll get the right page.
Update the list to reflect the most recently completed books. Thanks!
I have Dracula and would be happy to add in information for that book, but I have an edition that is different than the default edition. I could just add in the information for my edition, but I can't find it. Because I don't want to accidentally add in a duplicate, does anyone here happen to know or is able to find the Wordsworth edition with original publishing 1993 and introduction and notes added in 2000? It is the one with the castle on the front cover, not the newer one with Dracula (?) on the front. If it's not already here, I can add it and either way I can enter the chapter information and metadata for it.
Patrick wrote: "Here's the list of books we'd for which we'd like chapter metadata:
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ic..."
Patrick wrote: "Here's the list of books we'd for which we'd like chapter metadata:
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ic..."
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest default done.It kept saying it had a problem saving it but must have done it because now each chapter shows up 4 times. Couldn't edit them out because they only show up once in the list.
Mary Beth wrote: "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest default done.It kept saying it had a problem saving it but must have done it because now each chapter shows up 4 times. Couldn't edit them out because they o..."
I was able to go in and delete the extra chapters for you
Patrick wrote: "Update the list to reflect the most recently completed books. Thanks!"Any chance you could fix the broken links as well? TIA HAND ;-)
List updated. I'll see if I can get a developer to look at the page not found issues. Likely won't happen until after the holidays, though.
Ariana wrote: "Mary Beth wrote: "The girl who kicked the hornet's nest default done.It kept saying it had a problem saving it but must have done it because now each chapter shows up 4 times. Couldn't edit them ..."
Thanks
Terrific! I crossed them off the list.
I did the default edition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.The prologue starts on page ix, which was not accepted as a page number. I set it to 0 so I could save the page. I can't recall if this has been discussed or not; did I deal with that correctly?
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) is done:)But the link to A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3) is not working.
I have done the following, using the editions I own:- Pride and Prejudice (ISBN: 0141439513)
- Wuthering Heights (ISBN: 0007326742)
- Dracula (ISBN: 1593081146)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (ISBN n/a; http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...)
Jessica wrote: "I have done the following, using the editions I own:- Pride and Prejudice (ISBN: 0141439513)
- Wuthering Heights (ISBN: 0007326742)
- Dracula (ISBN: 1593081146)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ..."
oops, seen this after doing Pride and Prejudice default edition
Girl with the dragon tatoo default edition done
I don't think I understand exactly what you're looking for. You want us to add the info where? "Edit chapters" I don't see that and I want to help. I've got a few of those book and editions requests. Pics maybe? Am I missing a post where someone breaks this down and you want to punch me in the face for not reading (I scanned, sorry) all 4 pages?
yes under edit chapters. The info on how to do it is here from the first post:- Using the edit book link, access the book edit form. Use the edit chapters link to access the chapter edit page.
- If the book does not have any chapter data yet, you will be prompted to specify the number of chapters in the book. Please include all chapters, including introductions, epilogues, etc.
- This will take you to a second form, where you can edit each chapter's name and location (either a page number or percentage). Both of these must be provided for each chapter.
- If the form asks for chapter locations as a percentage, this lacks a page count. If this information is available, please go back & provide this information before continuing. The notable exception is the Kindle edition, which often will not have a page count.
Please don't do this for every edition. For now, just focus on the default edition of each book. If the default edition is audio, please use the most popular print edition in its place.
@Mary Beth I read those instructions I do not see where I'm clicking "edit chapters"...I'm also reading the thread more closely, I don't think they're are any books I own left to add this information :-/
if you do find a book the edit chapters link is under the edit book information towards the bottom.
Got "The Happiness Project" (default edition) !
Reference: Cabinets of Curiositiesby Christine Davenne, Christine Fleurent
Please correct the referenced book, which is listed as Cabinets of Curiosities, but as you will see when you go to its page and see the book cover, it's actually Cabinets of Wonder.
Do adding percents for Kindle edition not work? I tried to add the Chapters for Jane Eyre, I know its not the default edition. The default is the paperback that matches this kindle edition by Penguin Publishing. However, after saving, I realized I forgot to add the Intro/Notes, etc stuff so I went back to do that and all my % had been changed to the same weird decimal xxxxx.x and it would not let me change any of them or add anything without giving me a general save error. So I deleted all of them at this point. It was asking for % and not page numbers. Maybe just a glitch and I can try again later.
Bookworm R wrote: "Do adding percents for Kindle edition not work? I tried to add the Chapters for Jane Eyre, I know its not the default edition. The default is the paperback that matches this kindle edition by Peng..."Bookworm, as a reader, I have noted that all Kindle books record in % read and not number of pages read, whereas ebooks record in pages.
Bea wrote: "Bookworm R wrote: "Do adding percents for Kindle edition not work? I tried to add the Chapters for Jane Eyre, I know its not the default edition. The default is the paperback that matches this kin..."Bea, I am aware of that, I did enter the correct %'s as shown from my Kindle for each chapter. But after the save all my numbers changed to the same incorrect percent number. I wasn't thinking and didn't write it down before deleting. It was similar to 27638.6% for all chapters.
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