Goodreads Librarians Group discussion
Grok Testuser will be something to do with the developers so leaving well alone personally :)
nab: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Hoping this is the right thread for this...There are many items listed under Charley Harper (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...) that I believe are not books, but I don't feel comfortable enough with the policies/practice to NAB them myself.
Can someone with more experience take a look, please?
Z-squared wrote: "7 and 8 done"Thanks!
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Beverly Cleary NABs:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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I changed the author on 15. Without an idea of what to merge to I hesitate to just zap it.
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Not sure if this helps.#17 - ISBN search gives this result with full bib data
http://www.bookdepository.com/Henley-...
which corresponds with what is listed on BookData.
Can't help with any further details for #15 though.
rivka wrote: "Someone must have merged 14; the links all redirect to the primary edition now."Whoops, that was me. Forgot to note as such here. I also created NAB'd entries with the offending ISBNs so they won't be re-added to the database.
Have not NAB'd anything, this appears to be a video, but looks like it is possibly associated to a book, so was not sure how to deal with it.Cause and Effect: Intermediate Reading Practice Video
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NAB?https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
I'm confused about how to NAB something that has been shelved, when you can't use the NAB button. The instructions say to merge two identical editions, which involves deleting one of them, but then you can't edit the one that's been deleted to say NOT A BOOK because it doesn't exist anymore. Am I missing something?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Still confused about how to transfer ratings when NABing manually.
Sophie wrote: "then you can't edit the one that's been deleted to say NOT A BOOK because it doesn't exist anymore. Am I missing something? "Write down the ISBN 10 and 13 of the thing to be nabbed plus all other metadata. Merge the item. Create a new record with the ISBN 10 and 13 plus all the metadata, NAB it.
So the part in the librarian manual that says:d. The not-a-book record has been recreated in the GR database with no users shelving it; all of the users were transferred to the actual book in step (b).
is incorrect? You have to recreate it manually? Just making sure I understand.
Also, possible NAB:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Not sure how to verify whether or not this is an actual book.
When you google the ISBN there are several sites listing it as a book. Weird title isn't it?
Sophie @32:Re your "possible NAB":
I would never NAB something that is titled Untitled. Authors buy ISBNs in blocks and may or may not use all of them. I suppose that book was either a planned book that didn't get published, or it's an edition of a book that did get published but that particular edition wasn't needed or whatever.
Not being the author or the publisher it's impossible for us to know what's going on with that specific ISBN. Most likely it wouldn't hurt the database for it to be NABbed, but again, not knowing the situation, I personally would not NAB it. It's not like a "strip clip" or something where we know it is not an actual physical book.
Sophie wrote: "So the part in the librarian manual that says:d. The not-a-book record has been recreated in the GR database with no users shelving it; all of the users were transferred to the actual book in step (b).
is incorrect? You have to recreate it manually? Just making sure I understand."
Don't know. I thought you did have to recreate it manually - otherwise it would just be reimported by one of the automatic importers - but I could be wrong.
The librarian manual also says, under "these items are not books":* untitled books where no verifiable publication information about the book exists (often these are titled "Untitled #3" and represent placeholder ISBNs that were never used)
Maybe I'm relying too much on the manual here, but this seems like one of those cases. (And the manual should definitely be changed if you have to recreate the record yourself when merging the NAB into the actual book.)
I'm not saying you MUST recreate the record yourself after a NAB. It's not necessary to the NAB process itself. I'm just saying having the record there prevents that ISBN from being auto-imported again as a fresh, new, unNABbed book.
Lobstergirl wrote: "I'm not saying you MUST recreate the record yourself after a NAB. It's not necessary to the NAB process itself. I'm just saying having the record there prevents that ISBN from being auto-imported..."Right, but the manual says that Goodreads automatically recreates the record, so that should be changed if it doesn't.
Yeah. I have no idea. Hopefully staff will address.
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Got the "hard to find" captain underpants doll.
re 45, google cached searches sure makes it seem NAB-worthy.http://webcache.googleusercontent.com...
do you want to, or should i?
Go for it; I need a break! :-D And thanks!
Even though Grok Testuser is currently reading this [sic], shouldn't it be nabbed? This author has a bunch of journal type books and blank books that I believe should be nabbed.