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associating a quote with the book it was taken from
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Jan 11, 2019 05:40PM
When will URLs be able to be associated with books once again? That's the error message I keep receiving when unable to request a correction of a specific quote and the book that I've been unable to associate it with.
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This question would be better on the Feedback Group as librarians don't have anything to do with site functionality.
If you want to attach a book to a specific existing quote, you'll have to ask here in the Librarians Group, with a link to the quote, as only Librarians can add a book to an existing quote.Non-librarians can add quotes, and add the book when adding the quote, but not attach a book to an existing quote.
Arenda wrote: "If you want to attach a book to a specific existing quote, you'll have to ask here in the Librarians Group, with a link to the quote, as only Librarians can add a book to an existing quote.Non-lib..."
I did follow the above procedure.
I added a quote for Michael Lewis but couldn't get it to display under my book review of The Fifth Risk. When I was adding the quote, the drop-down list of that author's books didn't include The Fifth Risk or many others of the author's familiar books. I wondered whether there is more than one Michael Lewis.
So I came over here to the Librarians Group, as I've done in the past for problems with quotes. I wanted one of you to associate that quote with that title. I indicated "issues with quotes" from the drop-down list. I indicated the book is The Fifth Risk. And I gave the link for the quote itself: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9645...
Then, when I clicked "post," I got this error msg: adding URLs to titles has been temporarily disabled.
So, even though the Librarians Group usually handles "issues with quotes," should I take this up with the Feedback Group?
I corrected the author name (this one uses 3 spaces for book sorting purposes) and the right book showed up in the options list.
Abcdarian wrote: "I corrected the author name (this one uses 3 spaces for book sorting purposes) and the right book showed up in the options list."Hello again, Abcdarian! Thanks! I'm not sure I understand the part about the 3 spaces, though. Can you say another word or two? I'm going to add another quote for the same author and book.
Jan wrote: "I'm not sure I understand the part about the 3 spaces, though. Can you say another word or two? I'm going to add another quote for the same author and book."GR uses spaces between the first and last name to separate authors with the same name.
So if you type in the name with 3 spaces between the first and last name in this case it will link to the correct author profile.
Miriam wrote: "...So if you type in the name with 3 spaces between the first and last name in this case it will link to the correct author profile. "How about that! I've got it now. Thank you, Miriam.
