Users entering whole series as a book

[Todd]

I was wondering what to do in such a case as this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3119081.Palace_Walk_series. I've labelled it NOT A BOOK for now.

I've seen this kind of thing before. The person has, rather than going to the trouble of entering a series of books that they've read, just entered the series as a book that isn't really a book.

It seems to me that this particular person, who is an author, was quickly trying to get up their number of books to 50, in order to achieve librarian status, and hasn't added a book since.

[♥Tricia♥]

Unless I am mistaken you don't need to add books to the system to be eligible for librarian status.

Is it different for authors?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Authors automatically get librarian status, regardless of the number of books they have shelved.

And the book really does exist as the trilogy. There were a few problems with how it was entered: the author was entered improperly; the trilogy already existed in the system; the trilogy has another name. So I merged the author with the correct one, combined the book, and deleted it.

Anyway, there's no need to NOT A BOOK a record without an ISBN. Deleting them works fine.

[Cait]

If there are reviews on a series "book" like that and there isn't a valid omnibus book in the database to merge the fake book into, I usually merge it into the first book of the series.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Good point. That's what I do as well.