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When will the primary edition show up in search?
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I'm not certain, but I suspect search results come up in order of popularity, that is, how many times shelved by readers. If that is the case, it might not change until more readers shelve the new cover edition.
Thank you. It makes sense what you are saying but I guess I'm still a bit confused. How can they shelve the new edition if the old edition is still showing when they search for the book? (Or is it just the old edition cover that shows and when they are shelving they are actually shelving the new edition?)I didn't realize it would be this much work to update my book cover. Lol.
The cache normally takes 10 minutes to 72 hours to update all areas of goodreads (search results, author page, series thumbnails and page if appropriate, etc.).Usually the display areas (like search results) with a lot of thumbnail images take the longest to refresh.
With goodreads currently working on the search feature and the holiday weekend likely seeing more use -- I'd expect slower rather than sooner.
(Updated cover shows for me on your author page and series info already so you did get it set as default/primary/featured and search shouldn't be too far behind.)
Looks like someone has vandalized your book description though and removed librarian notes explaining the ACE information.I'm not a librarian but maybe one can jump in and revert the vandalism for you.
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As to "...I didn't realize it would be this much work to update my book cover..." well, it's just weird and not usual for the goodreads database/library when authors don't get a new isbn/asin when they create a new edition. (I know retail sites let you have product pages that you change however you damn well please and many self-publishing authors have taken that to mean upload editions/covers as often as you like but goodreads keeps even out of print books and there are more than 25 million of us cataloging books that really don't want our book catalogs or book activity posts changed on us just because a product page of interest to folk who haven't bought, shelved or used the book yet has new editions made on the retail site without obtaining new identifiers).
Fixed the ACE description and cross-referenced.
Log still looks weird to me. I see where Elizabeth made corrections 30-31 minutes ago but it also looks like someone undid her corrections 21 minutes ago? Possibly again vandalizing librarian note (which as a non librarian I cannot actually see to be sure)?I may be reading the changelog wrong.
D.A.—just a reader wrote: "Log still looks weird to me. I see where Elizabeth made corrections 30-31 minutes ago but it also looks like someone undid her corrections 21 minutes ago? Possibly again vandalizing librarian not..."Try looking at the editions, the descriptions are correct.
:( I'm not sure. This is all new to me. The only thing I had done was set one of the editions as primary, and that was a while ago.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Try looking at the editions, the descriptions are correct..."Yes, the descriptions look correct. But changelog time stamps just make it look like someone altered or removed librarian notes (not the description, the librarian notes themselves that show when librarians go to edit or combine book editions). Again, I'm just seeing the log and not the notes themselves so could easily be wrong.
Thank you, Debbie. Yes, a deletion and change of description was made for a different edition. I have fixed and cross-referenced another ACE.
TIA