Need lots of help...as usual

[C.M.]

First, can a librarian NOT work on their own book? Actually, I don't think I can do anything and I'm supposedly a Librarian.
Second, this should be added to the Zombie Overload Series as book 4. As a non-librarian librarian (lol) i can't add it. Also, can't add it as the author.
Third, on this book, the only author it should have is C.M. Wright. The other three should be deleted. Again, it won't let me do it.
Thanks for any help you can give me :-)

[Empress]

Book added to series and editors removed.
I'm not sure I get one, if it is just a question you've answered it at two - You are a non-librarian librarian. Well said. :]

[C.M.]

LOL Thanks so much. So why am I not able to do anything, even though I had applied for librarian and was told I was one?

[Deon]

Authors are not given a librarian status, but you have the ability to edit some data for your books and it is limited on purpose.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Deon wrote: "Authors are not given a librarian status, but you have the ability to edit some data for your books and it is limited on purpose."

I don't think authors are usually given "goodreads librarian" status (particularly if the application gave their reason as being they were told had to be a librarian when they tried to edit something not allowed on their books.)—but I do think some are. Obviously only the staff PTB know the ins and out of application approvals. I'd expect would need a compelling reason on the application and edits would be closely monitored at first (but no real knowledge, just a guess).

If C.M. can edit a book by a different author then they are a goodreads librarian. If only the books they are listed as primary author, then not.

Other goodreads members also confuse "top librarian" showing on their profile as meaning "goodreads librarian" when it just means they've added the most books compared to other members claiming same country of residence.

(I also had a goodreads librarian author actively overwriting their own covers tell me they were mistakenly granted goodreads librarian status as they never, ever put in an application and no matter what any librarian told them or what was in manual that they were going ahead and changing their covers; lots of group postings in this group and image change revoking for a while and they never did give up until their librarian status was finally yanked ... also their changelog had no librarian edits of any other authors except in response to one author's group posting by a fellow author asking her how on earth she kept getting her covers changed. For all I know, maybe she applied for goodreads librarian status prior claiming author profile. But bottom line, her cover changes were not allowed to remain; it was just getting annoying revoking there for a while -- although did teach me more about reading changelogs.)

[Jackie - Fire & Ice Book Reviews]

If you are a librarian, and you become a GR author. Do they take away your librarian status?

[Banjomike]

♫Jackie♫ wrote: "If you are a librarian, and you become a GR author. Do they take away your librarian status?"

Don't think so. Not often enough anyway, in my opinion. Librarian and author should be mutually exclusive, at least to begin with. They could reapply for librarian status later.

I wonder if there is an author who is a Super librarian?

[C.M.]

I applied and was accepted ( I thought, lol) I knew some of my books needed fixed so I was wanting to fix those for practice before attempting anything that wasnt mine and screwing it up. But I'm actually glad now that I'm apparently not a librarian. This stuff is too confusing and too much you have to learn just to fix something that is totally wrong. But as an author of a book, we should be given the rights to fix things. It IS our books, after all. Although I'm sure some idiots have taken that right away from us by being...well, idiots! So, as long as we have some awesome librarians who have the time to do all this for us, I'm happy.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

C.M. wrote: "...But as an author of a book, we should be given the rights to fix things..."

You should be able to edit your own books. You never have to—can always ask a librarian to do for you. You have almost all librarian privileges over your own books (including editing titles, descriptions, adding bookcovers where missing, filling in any missing fields of or editing existing information like publication dates, page numbers, etc.). Some edits might get revoked if not goodreads standard (for example, putting book reviews or a promotion/event in the book description, links to non-publisher/non-author bookseller sites...)

I'm probably missing something, but, the only librarian edits I don't think authors can do are doing something to co-authors or any other author's books, duplicating an already in-use isbn/asin (well, librarians cannot do that either), book series (gr had lots of problems including creating the series repeatedly instead of adding a book so members adding books and authors cannot do series stuff anymore), deleting books (sometimes because out of print or a particular edition no longer available even though gr keeps a library of all editions even if out of print, but also sometimes an attempt to delete the book so reviews and ratings get deleted) and changing book covers (gr has had lots of issues with ebook or print-on-demand-using authors who get so used to bookseller site product pages and updating images there that they try to treat the goodreads data pages as product pages and overwrite what is on member's library/shelves versus creating new/alternate-cover editions).

[C.M.]

Debbie wrote: "C.M. wrote: "...But as an author of a book, we should be given the rights to fix things..."

You should be able to edit your own books. You never have to—can always ask a librarian to do for you. ..."

LOL Series and co-authors...those were the issues I was having. The librarians took care of it for me, so I can now sit back and be blissfully relieved that I didn't end up screwing it up myself anyway.