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Jul 25, 2014 04:55PM
I am a librarian, but I am not sure how to do this. I was asked to delete the series attribute without deleting the book. It will be a stand alone book and not in a series. The author set it up as a series originally and now wants to delete the series attribute. How do I do this for future reference? I didn't see anything about it in the librarians manual.
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rivka wrote: "From the series edit page."I went there, but the only thing I see that I can remove is the name of the series in the title field in parenthesis. The series name is a highlighted link that just takes me back to the books page.
So I am assuming just delete what's in the parenthesis and it will not show up as a series then?
New question - If I delete the series, then does that delete the book from Goodreads? I just want to make sure I do this right.
Got the question answered in the Feedback thread.For anyone with the same question in the future:
Click on the highlighted series link. This will take you to the page that lists the book(s) in the series and allows you to add more books.
Top left you will see (edit). Click on edit.
Remove books from the series and then on the bottom left of the page, click remove. This will remove the series.
I'm having a problem doing this. Restoree - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...is listed as it is in the Pern Series, but when I follow your direction, I can't find it in the listing. Where else can I go to change this listing? Please help
Rhonda
Which series do you need to delete? The chronological order or the publication order? Or both?
The title is Restoree. Turns out all the editions of this title are under Dragonquest/ Dragonflight. Why they are there is the mystery.
Looks like they were combined with Dragonquest. I'm trying to fix that part now. Fingers crossed.
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How odd. Very, very different books.
I've noticed that on the combine page you do not have to actually click the checkbox to choose a title to combine - you only need click in the book "area" to check it. Perhaps someone did this by accident.
Could be, but it is fixed now, so no worries. I really appreciate the help and comments :)
