Goodreads Librarians Group discussion
Book & Author Page Issues
>
A Doyle problem?
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Ian
(new)
Nov 12, 2012 10:47PM
I was browsing through Conan Doyle and came across his "The Great Boer War". I corrected the original publication date to 1900 (from 2008), but there seem to be too many kindle versions of the book, a dozen or so. The original publication edition also seems to be absent from goodreads. I can add this, but my question is about the kindles. Why so many? Error?
reply
|
flag
If they each have a valid ASIN, they are all valid/legitimate. It's possible some are duplicates (unnecessary) if they lack ASINs. You need to link to them.
Is "The Great Shadow" the same book as "The Great Boer War"? If not, then those two have been miscombined and need to be separated.
Mod
re "The Great Shadow". I noticed that, it is not the same book. I will separate the two.
re Dr Doyle's Boer War.I have separated the "Shadow" from the "War", and added the original edition of 1900.
Problem — there is an ebook version of "The Great Shadow" attached to "The Great Boer War", and I apparently, do not have permission to delete this. Can someone else take a look?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...
Ian wrote: "Problem — there is an ebook version of "The Great Shadow" attached to "The Great Boer War", and I apparently, do not have permission to delete this. Can someone else take a look?"Nor me. We'll have to wait for Rivka.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73...http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...
Two "Great Shadow" Doyle books, but slightly different titles. Not sure if they are the same.
@Renske - is this what you are referring to?
Also
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76...
Which discusses Doyle's writing.
I was reading the your message too fast and misunderstood it. So I removed my useless comment.
And, I came across this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13..."The Great Boer War: The Final Edition Covering the Entire Conflict 1899-1902"
It is an expanded version of the first book discussed here "The Great Boer War". Is it really a separate book (as listed in goodreads), or a later edition of the original?
RE msg 6, looks like someone got it. I don't see any edition that needs deletion.Re msg 8, all of these should be separate. We don't combine "Story A" with "Story A and other stories". (Not sure if this was your question or not, but thought I would restate just in case.)
Re msg 10, that should be combined. The description states that "He began this substantial book while the war was being fought, but this edition represents its fourth and final edition completed in 1904 some time after the last shot had been fired." This is similar to other books that get revised and/or expanded, which are combined on Goodreads. Also, the paperback is already combined with the others:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
vicki_girl wrote: "RE msg 6, looks like someone got it. I don't see any edition that needs deletion."The problem in #6 is the 'download ebook' is the wrong book. trying to edit the ebook gives "You do not have permission to edit the ebook for this book". Looks like it needs the Rivka touch.
Mod
Rivka, just to be clear on this, is editing existing uploaded ebooks a staff-only function? It looks like we could upload a NEW ebook but not edit the ones that already there. I can't see an edit option on that page any more.
Mod
I believe that depends on the source of the upload. I cannot currently edit those either. (They're not really attached to War, as you can tell if you click on the "other editions" link.) Pretty sure it's a caching issue and should clear up on its own.
I have combined the two editions of "The Great Boer War". So far the two remaining "Shadow" ebooks have not moved over. I do have an ebook of "The Great Boer War" to upload, but I thought I might wait until the incorrect ebooks "move on their own in a couple days" before uploading.
I believe this book is now correctly sorted. Thanks for everyone's advice.
Mod
OK, I see the 13.1 MB PDF as a Google Books edition of "The Great Boer War". The other two are still "The Great Shadow". I suppose we wait and see what happens.
Looking at "The Great Boer War" today it seems that there are no ebooks available to download, however, after clicking the "edit" link three ebooks are visible (2 invalidly so). Ummm.
Had a look at "The Great Boer War". There are still the two incorrect ebooks attached, plus the new correct ebook. Is it possible to delete the offending two?
I'm not sure. I don't see any way to delete ANY of those ebooks. I think this is either going to be a Rivka job or even a bug.
Roger that. Is there a process to pass this request up the decision making tree?
Ian wrote: "Roger that. Is there a process to pass this request up the decision making tree?"Rivka has already posted in this thread so we can expect her to be back. If she cannot fix the problem she will probably be able to say if it is a bug or perhaps we need the specific person who uploaded the ebooks to delete them. I might call that a bug anyway.
Mod
rivka wrote: "I created a ticket. Probably not the highest priority, but hopefully someone will take a look after the holiday weekend."If someone was to post a retail ebook (with or without DRM) on a book page then someone might have to investigate a bit quicker.
Thanks, understandably not a high priority issue. I will adopt this book as my baby, and check back in a few weeks.
