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Feb 18, 2013 08:04AM
I've been deleting books (mainly self-published) added to the list for Canada Reads 2013 (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/31...). This is an annual contest on CBC Radio and Television that only has five books in it, and this list is for people to rate those five books. Is there a way to lock out the 'add a book' feature for a list like this where adding a book is innapropriate?
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Lianne wrote: "I've been deleting books (mainly self-published) added to the list for Canada Reads 2013 (http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/31...). This is an annual contest on CBC Radio and Television that only has five books in it, and this list is for people to rate those five books. Is there a way to lock out the 'add a book' feature for a list like this where adding a book is innapropriate? "No. There is an option to restrict the editing facility to the list creator and librarians but that is not as useful as it sounds. Many of the self published authors-types irritating are also librarians so they just carry on. Sometimes tweaking the description to emphasize that this is a list with a specific target can help.
Darn. Well, I added a description explaining what Canada Reads is, and I'll just check from time to time to make sure another writer hasn't randomly added their book.It might be a useful feature for the future, though, to be able to mark a list as having a closed list of books.
Lianne wrote: "Darn. Well, I added a description explaining what Canada Reads is, and I'll just check from time to time to make sure another writer hasn't randomly added their book.It might be a useful feature for the future, though, to be able to mark a list as having a closed list of books. "
Lots of people would agree with that (even without the pain of spammers) but Goodreads policy is that lists are public. Anyone can create one but then it becomes public property.
Keep in mind that if you delete a book from a list you must have a good reason. With this list it is easy to justify but with other, less well defined lists, it can be much harder.
Keep in mind that if you delete a book from a list you must have a good reason. With this list it is easy to justify but with other, less well defined lists, it can be much harder. I can quite agree with that. But yeah, this is a very specific list that comes from outside, and finding a self-published book by an author who isn't even Canadian has been added, I end up rolling my eyes and deleting it.
Lianne wrote: "...this is a very specific list that comes from outside, and finding a self-published book by an author who isn't even Canadian has been added, I end up rolling my eyes and deleting it. "Quite right.
