fixing poorly edited "not a book" books

[Eric]

I will not call out the user but I recently found that there is a practice of marking content you don't like as "not a book". Now no one seems to be very consistent about it but for example how do you find out which edition and/or where disgruntled librarians marked an actual book with "not a book".

Please don't get me wrong I know there are some reading materials on GR that are in fact not books and should be designated as such but do you mean to tell me that all 20 of these fairly popular books (https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...) have printings that are not books?

Also I'm not looking to delete every single entry I find I am more wondering if it's possible and maybe help weed out some other non positively contributing members of our librarian crew. I'm going with crew since we're not getting paid - wait are we ;-)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Eric wrote: "do you mean to tell me that all 20 of these fairly popular books (https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...) have printings that are not books?"

Quite possibly. Popular books very often have multi-copy display versions or other not-a-book editions.

[Banjomike]

I think what you have there is an example of a bug in the search engine. If you look on the last few pages of your search there are books with only a single edition which don't have any NABs set.

More generally, the popular books ALL get 'editions' which are 18 paperbacks in a rotating stand etc etc. They get NABed.

[Eric]

I don't follow, "multi-copy display"? I guess I am showing my ignorance here. Could you give me an example or two?

[Banjomike]

Eric wrote: "I don't follow, "multi-copy display"? I guess I am showing my ignorance here. Could you give me an example or two?"

packs of 12

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Banjomike]

A 24 pack dumpbin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

this one describes itself
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Eric]

I'm sorry could you clarify those 2 links for me please? Googling them isn't helping either.

Banjomike wrote: "More generally, the popular books ALL get 'editions' which are 18 paperbacks in a rotating stand etc etc. They get NABed."


Wait do you mean to tell me there are "books" added here that are literally the entire displays you'd find in a store?

[Eric]

hahaha, yes, yes you are. Oh lord... why are people adding those.

[Banjomike]

Eric wrote: "hahaha, yes, yes you are. Oh lord... why are people adding those."

It is the import scripts/bots. The floor displays have an ISBN so that the publishers can track them through their warehouse. The bots import them because they have an ISBN and come from a publisher.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

And because while we have filters that screen out many of these, we have found that increasing what gets filtered out loses too many false-positives.

[Eric]

Alright, ok. I am fully briefed now. Thank you for the replies.

Now what to keep an eye out for the silly users (not bots) who want to keep marking books as not a book. That's going on my todo list.

[Banjomike]

Eric wrote: "Alright, ok. I am fully briefed now. Thank you for the replies.

Now what to keep an eye out for the silly users (not bots) who want to keep marking books as not a book. That's going on my todo list."

Flag them to support. If they don't obey the rules, flag them.