Can't leave librarian note when removing cover image

[Antonomasia]

Quite a lot of my librarian activity is getting rid of those "no image available" placeholders when I notice them in passing, but for some editions (typically editions that won't be published for several months yet, or old out of print editions) there isn't a cover to replace them. When adding a cover it's fine to leave a note.

I'm not aware of problems resulting from this, but it would be better if it was possible for notes to work with cover deletion. (leaving a note but making no other changes - i.e. adding the note after the deletion - means the note doesn't save.)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Deleting stuff doesn't allow you to leave a comment - not just covers, but anything else - and you can't leave a comment when making work edits.

[lethe]

You can always leave a librarian note, even when doing no edits at all. What you mean is you cannot add a change comment when deleting something :)

[Emily]

In the past I have put another space at the end of a description as an "edit" and left a change comment about what I did in the previous edit.

[Emy]

lethe wrote: "You can always leave a librarian note, even when doing no edits at all. What you mean is you cannot add a change comment when deleting something :)"

Not always - if there is no edit, the change note doesn't always "stick". To get around that, I usually do the delete, then make a minor change, write the note then save. That forces it to always retain the note close to the removal.

[Antonomasia]

Useful tip, Emily & Emy. Thanks.

[lethe]

Emy wrote: "Not always - if there is no edit, the change note doesn't always "stick"."

Are you talking about the change comment, or the librarian note?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

As to the original post, when the "no image available" is about a pre-publication edition, I don't really see anything wrong with leaving it.

[Antonomasia]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "As to the original post, when the "no image available" is about a pre-publication edition, I don't really see anything wrong with leaving it."

I thought it blocked the feeds from replacing them automatically, whereas if there was no image, the feeds would add images when they next changed on Amazon.

[lethe]

Antonomasia wrote: "I thought it blocked the feeds from replacing them automatically, whereas if there was no image, the feeds would add images when they next changed on Amazon."

I believe bots are "allowed" to replace pre-publication covers.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I think bots change covers that are not user uploaded.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Bots are allowed to change covers that were added by the same feed, pre-publication.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Thanks Rivka. I had forgotten that we got it changed that the bots wouldn't change covers after publication.