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Yup. http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/23...
OK, phew, that's reassuring. Alright, so I guess this will give me the opportunity to test the combining feature.Thanks, rivka!
PS. Totally unrelated, sorry, but I find it a bit annoying that the site keeps printing my name as "Alex S." in all kinds of places instead of just Alex... is there a way to fix this, without losing the middle initial in my main settings?
Yes, click your thumbnail, then at top click "edit profile." In first name field put "Alex" and in last name "S. Garcia"Actually a lot of Alex's on site, so possibly "Alex (whatever)" in first name field.
I've thought of that, but then I'd end up with a weird last name, LOL. But I guess that's the only way, eh? Oh well, I'll think of something. Thanks.
It actually was for an alternate cover to an existing edition. So I was very careful, looked at how other alternate covers had been handled in other entries, compared with what already existed for the book I was editing, etc. And yet, I have a feeling something went wrong...
So, here's how I proceeded: I had the book in my "read" shelf. From there, I clicked on "edit" to change the edition. Not finding the cover I have in the list, I clicked on "add a new edition" at the top right of the page. This took me to a partially pre-filled form (with the title of the book and a few other things), so I just entered the rest of the data and uploaded the new cover image (which I scanned myself).
This is the result:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Which looks good... except, it doesn't seem to be linked to the other editions of the same book?? Rather, it *seems* like it's been added as a separate new book. I'm guessing this can easily be fixed by a combine (or is it merge?) but I'd like to know what I did wrong, to avoid it from happening again in the future...
Or is this normal behavior and always needs to be manually fixed after the fact?