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Is there a protocol for this Nintendo "Game" ?
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rivka wrote: "I suggest reviewing the individual books, and NOT the device. "Yes Rivka,
The device will be reviewed on another forum, not GR, although I feel it would be myopic not to mention it here, as the medium through which a book is read is part of the experience.
The question remains: If one reviews items read on the device, how to register them in one's library?
Also (if I may squeeze this point in) can you point me to some cogent info on the tie-up with feedbooks; despite my searches, I find I am still unclear how to enter FB titles in one's library.
Kind regards
John
JMO:I think you'd have to enter each title manually, make sure the publisher is listed as HarperCollins/Nintendo, any other info you can, and then put some details about the format in the description.
Then review the book as normal.
If you have librarian status, you should then go in and combine the Nintendo edition with all the other editions for that book.
Does that address your question?
Carolyn wrote: "JMO:I think you'd have to enter each title manually, make sure the publisher is listed as HarperCollins/Nintendo, any other info you can, and then put some details about the format in the descrip..."
Indeed, Carolyn.
The question is answered. Thanks.
Have bookmarked this thread.
Kind regards
John
Glad to help.About your Feedbooks question - you may want to post that in a separate thread. I don't know anything about it, so can't help you, sorry!
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Entering any book that does not already exist in the GR database is done pretty much the same way, just as Carolyn detailed above. For FeedBooks, I guess that would mean listing the binding as "ebook" and the publisher as "FeedBook".
Unless there's some reason those would be different? I admit I'm not terribly familiar with how FeedBook works.
rivka wrote: "Sorry, I misunderstood the question.Entering any book that does not already exist in the GR database is done pretty much the same way, just as Carolyn detailed above. For FeedBooks, I guess that ..."
Hi rivka,
With all the info we have at our fingertips these days, I'm often surprised that I can remember anything ;)
If a slot occurs in the day, will search the feedbooks tie-in thingy. There is an official, new arrangement with GR, but am not sure it's working properly yet, or indeed how it works.
A lot of my books are obtained from fb; when you read a book and reach the end, they ask if you enjoyed it, and if so would you kindly submit a review. I understand it supports their venture. So I am assuming, in view of the new relationship with GR, that there would be no problem with writing that review, and copying/pasting the same review in the GR box as well.
There's probably a thread about this on GR too, somewhere: again it's the overwhelming volume of information thingy again.
Off to greet the day;)
Kind regards
John
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Might want to ask about that in the Feedback group, as the GR programmers and PTB are more likely to see it there.
rivka wrote: "I know about the agreement, but I didn't realize it affected how books get entered. Makes sense.Might want to ask about that in the Feedback group, as the GR programmers and PTB are more likely t..."
Indeed. Next on my list is to contact feedbooks/apprpriate group requesting details of the arrangement with GR.
...& will revert to this thread with any new info gleaned.
Regards,
John
Within the rich reading tapestry we now have many forms of books.
Last year I was fighting demons, ghouls & monsters on the Nintendo DS game device, and donking koopas and ghoulis on the nut.
This year, I have a "game" cartridge called: "100 classic Book Collection." Published by Nintendo and HarperCollins, its shelf contains a full range from Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, RD Blackmore, the Brontës, Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper,etc etc all the way through to Oscar Wilde.
You turn the device through 90°, and the two screens morph into the pages of a book, and the control pad (or the stylus) turns or flicks the pages, as desired.
It's intriguing.
For reviewing the deivce, I'd need to read 3 or 4 or more of the books in it.
Is it possible to review them here, and if so, how would one go about entering them?
Regards
John