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Robbie
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Feb 29, 2008 04:56AM
There were multiple copies of this book. I was able to combine most of them, but there is one left with 7 ratings. Since I am not a "super-reader" I wasn't able to correct it. Thanks to anyone who will!
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I've only ever combined by deleting. Rather than having me figure out how to do it the other way right now, will someone else do it please? I'll read up on it again later.
"Combining" books is not done by deleting them.Please stop deleting books!
To combine them, you go to the "edit editions" page and let the GoodReads database know which are editions of the same book.
I've fixed this up as far as i can tell (let me know if not). The issue in this case wasn't with the books, but rather with the author.. there were three different spellings of his name. In such cases, you edit the incorrect author name to the correct spelling. After doing so, the editions of the books fall under the correct author and they can be combined.
If in doubt, refresh yerself with the guide here
http://www.goodreads.com/help/librarian
Cheers
edit - what i dont understand though is why "The Reader" is not appearing at the top of the list of books when searching Bernhard Schlink ... ? Unless there is a lag delay after combing maybe?
eg here:
http://www.goodreads.com/search/searc...
But when i "view all books by", it does list it first :o
eg here:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/...
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Except when there are ones that are true duplicates (like the one I deleted that had no ISBN, no cover, and no unique info -- it was clearly the same as another one).
But yes, in general we want to avoid deletion!
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Yep. Caching issue.
Rivka--That's what I did--there were several without covers or ISBN.
Thanks all for your help.
