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Can all editions display a Listopia status?
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rivka wrote: "This is not something under librarian control."Okay. Cool. Thanks for the hasty reply. I wasn't sure if I was just doing something wrong and it could be fixed, or if it was a site-structure issue.
i was thinking the same thing recently. Maybe you can post it in the feedback group?
Ellie wrote: "i was thinking the same thing recently. Maybe you can post it in the feedback group?"Yes, I was going to. Then I found this thread which confirms my suspicions:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Although I'm not sure how the Goodreads databases are constructed, as a person who has made a living doing a lot of web programming myself, I can say it may not be an easy fix. Knowing how I would have most likely built this site, I would have probably made the same mistake. And rectifying it would be pretty difficult, as it would most likely require globally swapping all the Listopia data with a different database field.
Eric wrote: "If a book is on a Listopia list, shouldn't all editions reflect that?"I think they should, I've always wondered why it doens't happen this way here
Eric, I know you are correct. I can appreciate the programming difficulties. GR is quite complicated in my opinion. I can imagine when you build such a huge code from scratch very little tweak is pain in the butt.Still, if they decide to they will manage. There are a few other things and if they try to implement them all together it might be easier. Anyway what do I know. I'm sure they have different priorities.
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If a book is on a Listopia list, shouldn't all editions reflect that?
For example, if you look under "Lists with This Book" on the page for my book The Gothic Rainbow, only the Createspace version of the book is shown to be on any Listopia lists. The other 4 editions says they have not been added to any Listopia lists.
I understand that if a book has 5 editions, you shouldn't see it repeated in a Listopia list 5 times - that would be stupid. But, shouldn't the homepages for each edition reflect the fact that book is on a list?