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So am I unable to add these literary magazines to my reading list?
Does this mean that I am unable to add these manually?
... Do these magazines have an ISBN? Can you link to an example?
They don't have an ISBN, instead they use ISSNs, for example 1059-2113. The one I'm currently reading also has a barcode, with the number 3871636003 displayed beneath it.
It looks like there are several hundred of these in the database already. Should they all be deleted (which would take a super/staff)?https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...
To complicate matters, a lot of older editions of these are now in the public domain, which means they're on The Gutenberg Project (and readers keep adding them from there), which also means in some cases the PD publishers are picking them up and republishing them too.
If they have an ISSN and not an ISBN they don't belong on GR according to the policy.
How did they get in the database if they can't be added manually?
So, now it would appear, my question would be: how did they get there, and how can I do it? I'm sorry if I've caused a kerfuffle.
What I thought you meant was "am I allowed to add them manually?" and the answer was no, since they do not have an ISBN.I must say though, the manual isn't clear. It says that these are allowed: "periodicals without ISBNs but substantially similar to books (e.g., perfectbound literary magazines), although they should be typed as "periodical" in the work: media type field"
(https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/1...)
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These are bound similar to books, not stapled. And I noticed that Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines are also listed in the database. I believe this would also apply to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, On Spec, and Fantasy & Science Fiction, to list several more. I apologize for being a royal pain. I guess, then, I would ask how can get various of these listed, if they are not already. I have a lot of these on my bookshelves to get through.Many thanks for your patience!
By the way, what does "perfect bound" mean?
I now know the meaning of "perfect bound". The periodicals I have mentioned are. The work all of you do makes me think that you must be like The Librarians in the television show. :-)
And given that I have wanted to be one all my life, I'm envious.
You're all wonderful!
Perfect bound have a cover with a spine (although for magazines it may be very narrow) and pages are glued in, as opposed to the kind of magazine where the pages are stapled. Many paperback books are also perfect bound.
I’m a big fan of short stories and the best are featured in long running literary magazines like Asimov’s. I started a group that only reads short fiction: Spells, Space & ScreamsThe magazines published by Dell and Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine are still available in physical format and are perfect bound.
If that’s enough to keep them on GR and available for discussion then good. Perfect Bound should be a safety sticker on all of them.
But you are missing the point.
Reading great stories and sharing our thoughts about them is why we come to GR. Fantastic award winning magazines like Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Lightspeed, and Nightmare, just to name a few, are only available digitally.
Digitally sold on Amazon.
These are stories worth reading.
Digital or physical, literary magazines should be a separate category to magazines like People or Weekly World News.
Thank you for your time.
Lena, you should address your concerns with staff or in the feedback/suggestions group so you can be heard. Librarians are not Goodreads employees or in charge of these policies.
Emily wrote: "Lena, you should address your concerns with staff or in the feedback/suggestions group so you can be heard. Librarians are not Goodreads employees or in charge of these policies."Staff in the Feedback Group have already said that perfect-bound literary magazines without ISBNs are allowed. It is important to have the policy stated here in the Librarians Group as well, so those magazines are no longer under threat of being deleted by staff or librarians who are not aware of that rule (or of what perfect-bound magazines are — I certainly had no idea before).
See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
lethe wrote: "Emily wrote: "Lena, you should address your concerns with staff or in the feedback/suggestions group so you can be heard. Librarians are not Goodreads employees or in charge of these policies."St..."
Great to know! I see some of these posts now after searching that group. Thanks!
Many thanks.