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Book & Author Page Issues > Please delete this book! (pt. 59) [Anyone requests; leave deletions for superlibrarians]

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Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂  | 2298 comments https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Duplicate edition with a truncated ISBN13.


message 502: by Nay (last edited Jul 28, 2020 09:33PM) (new)

Nay (4ukcats) | 530 comments I would post these separately, but they're all empty book records to be merged/deleted with the same edition.

First, please merge/delete this empty edition (an ACE was created for this placeholder cover edition)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Then please merge/delete each of these with the same kindle edition. They are both unpublished short stories included in the anthology. (I changed the titles to match the title of the anthology. Wasn't sure if I was supposed to do that or not?)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Once those 3 are merged, please recombine the kindle edition with the merge target (pb edition):
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Thank you!


message 503: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
T wrote: "Please delete this book. I want to change the series name, but that isn't possible, so I'll republish it on Goodreads."

Goodreads does not delete valid book records. In any case, the new edition would be combined with the other one, and they would share a series title.


message 504: by Lume (new)

Lume Books (lumebooks) | 20 comments Can #1 be merged with #2 please (#2 has correct ASIN):

1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

2) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Also accidentally created this defunct edition in order to try and get the right ASIN: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

If that edition can be deleted as well, that'd be great!


message 505: by Sandra (new)

Sandra | 31406 comments Placeholder with asin in isbn field
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


message 506: by João (new)

João Oliveira (jpdoliveira) | 1 comments https://www.goodreads.com/book/edit/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Created a duplicated version of the same edition. Delete the one without cover.
Thank you.


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message 508: by Іван (last edited Jul 29, 2020 05:38AM) (new)

Іван Синєпалов | 199 comments Please merge these two editions (delete one without cover and info):
І будуть люди and І будуть люди


message 509: by Nanou Nawel (new)

Nanou Nawel | 8 comments This book is repeated, please leave only one copy :

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


message 510: by Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (last edited Jul 29, 2020 11:50AM) (new)

Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (amarthiel) | 50 comments Melanie wrote: "#303 Not done, covers are different. Stamp on right side below green vertical bar."

Those stamps indicate how many times the book went into print by the same publishing house. In my country, publishing houses put such numbers on covers to show off how popular their books are. So one of them is the 39th print, the other is the 41st print. Other than that, they are the same book with the same ISBN and all. I thought we should only keep one entry for each print, preferably the first one if/when it's possible, right?


Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (amarthiel) | 50 comments #189 is still not done by the way. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone can help me with that.


message 512: by Emily (new)

Emily | 17486 comments Dua wrote: "#189 is still not done by the way. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone can help me with that."

Sorry! Merging it now


message 513: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Dua wrote: "I thought we should only keep one entry for each print"

Only if there have been changes to the cover, etc. Otherwise there is no reason to have a separate edition for each printing.


Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (amarthiel) | 50 comments rivka wrote: "Only if there have been changes to the cover, etc. Otherwise there is no reason to have a separate edition for each printing."

Hey rivka, thanks for chiming in!

Do such printing numbers on the cover count as a "change" though? I think they shouldn't because they are exactly the same edition. I mean, if everyone added a separate entry for the print they own, we would end up with dozens of entries for the same edition. What happens then? Should we keep them all?

I posted similar requests in the past and never had any issues, so forgive me for my confusion.


Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (amarthiel) | 50 comments Emily wrote: "Sorry! Merging it now"

Thank you so much, Emily!


Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (amarthiel) | 50 comments rivka, I forgot to add something. Sometimes it's not possible to find the cover of the first print, so people usually slap the first cover image they find online. If you look at the 39th print entry, the publishing date is the same as the entry without the stamp. How is that possible? Someone probably created that entry for the 1999 print, which is a duplicate, and just slapped the cover for the 39th print because that was probably what they could find online. I hope it makes sense.


message 517: by Scott (new)

Scott | 8635 comments Dua wrote: "rivka, I forgot to add something. Sometimes it's not possible to find the cover of the first print, so people usually slap the first cover image they find online. If you look at the 39th print entr..."

If it had no cover, and the ISBN matches, and the cover is from an acceptable source, then it is fine.


message 518: by Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (last edited Jul 29, 2020 01:32PM) (new)

Dua (in reading slump) ✨ (amarthiel) | 50 comments Scott wrote: "If it had no cover, and the ISBN matches, and the cover is from an acceptable source, then it is fine."

But they are duplicates. Both entries are for the 1999 print and we should merge one of them is all I'm saying.


message 521: by Valentina (new)

Valentina (valentina26) | 5 comments Please delete this duplicate book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

There is already an Amazon-posted entry with an ASIN.

Thank you.


message 522: by Elvenn (new)

Elvenn | 5763 comments Hi! Due to a request in Book Issues, I found some Arabic editions of Dracula that appear to be duplicates:

Please, merge these two:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... (this one has the ISBN)

With default: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... (doesn't have the ISBN)

And recombine with https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (Dracula)

Also merge this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... (which has the year and pages)

With default: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... (which has the ISBN)

And also recombine with Dracula. Thanks!


message 523: by Suzi (last edited Aug 03, 2020 05:20AM) (new)

Suzi | 8661 comments no publication information of any kind, not even format, so there is nothing specific to merge it with. Just merge with default edition

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...


done


message 524: by MitekPapilio (new)

MitekPapilio | 375 comments Please merge these editions

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

and after re-combine with this original edition

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Thanks


message 525: by MitekPapilio (new)

MitekPapilio | 375 comments Please merge these editions

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

and after re-combine with this original edition

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Thanks


message 528: by ☕ Lachgas ♿ (new)

☕ Lachgas ♿  (lachgas) | 9386 comments there was a typo in the title https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...


message 529: by Fran (new)

Fran (narflet) | 129 comments Can someone please delete this dupe and then recombine (with the other editions of the radio drama, not with the book!), thank you.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 530: by laven (new)

laven (lavendelchen) | 321 comments #188 is still not done. requested is the deletion of this empty edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 531: by Emily (new)

Emily | 17486 comments Laven wrote: "#188 is still not done. requested is the deletion of this empty edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."

Merging now. There may have been a few accidentally skipped; I will go back and look at those pages.


message 532: by laven (new)

laven (lavendelchen) | 321 comments Emily wrote: "Laven wrote: "#188 is still not done. requested is the deletion of this empty edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."

Merging now. There may have been a few accidentally skipped; I ..."


thanks!


message 533: by ☕ Lachgas ♿ (new)

☕ Lachgas ♿  (lachgas) | 9386 comments duplicate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... needs to be recombined with the other "Zero Day" afterwards


message 535: by Emily (last edited Jul 30, 2020 01:52PM) (new)

Emily | 17486 comments Debbie wrote: "Merged a bunch of single stories."

Next time just leave the title of the story that is to be merged. If you would, please put a paragraph space after 5 and 10.


Debbie is on Storygraph (silentrequiem) | 32 comments Emily wrote: "Debbie wrote: "Merged a bunch of single stories."

Next time just leave the title of the story that is to be merged. If you would, please put a paragraph space after 5 and 10."


Will do.


message 537: by Suzi (new)

Suzi | 8661 comments Please merge with its attached target

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

It had the ASIN in the ISBN10 field, which corresponds on Amazon ASIN associated with the target edition.


message 539: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
E wrote: "Hi there, could someone please delete this book for me? I'm in the works of re-writing it and want it taken down for now. Not sure if i'll ever re-publish it."

Goodreads does not delete out-of-print books or editions. Please see https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/... and https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...


message 540: by laven (new)

laven (lavendelchen) | 321 comments not sure how this could have happened, but the most popular edition of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... doesn't have an asin. I separated it for merging with another Kindle edition.


message 541: by Lori (last edited Jul 31, 2020 05:25AM) (new)

Lori | 735 comments Several of the books in this series have empty placeholder editions that need to be deleted. This series comes in Kindle only.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/2955...


message 542: by Jackie (new)

Jackie (jstieg777) | 2 comments Please merge: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Ka...

Kain's Rescue by Dalia Wright


message 543: by Moloch (last edited Jul 31, 2020 06:42AM) (new)

Moloch | 3975 comments this is a duplicate
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...#
and should be merged into the most popular edition

An important addendum: at the moment the default edition (which is the first edition for this work from 2008) has a WRONG cover (that's why it is a bit different from the duplicate, notice the writing below the title).
I could've changed it but I didn't want to confuse things for the superlibrarians.

The correct cover is on the duplicate. The cover currently on the default edition is actually the cover for this ISBN Il treno dell'ultima notte (that one is fine and doesn't need editing)

So, in short
- please save the cover here https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/comp...
- but then merge the duplicate https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...# into the most popular edition here https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...#

thanks


message 545: by laven (new)

laven (lavendelchen) | 321 comments duplicate of second most popular edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...


message 548: by Elvenn (new)

Elvenn | 5763 comments Hi! Please, merge this edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... and recombine. Thanks!


Candlemark & Gleam | 20 comments To the GoodReads Support staff:

Today I entered a title that I will be publishing in December 2020, Situation Normal by Leonard Richardson. As usual, I made entries for print and ebook, which have the following URLS:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

But then I noticed that someone had created another entry for Situation Normal that lacks all details (ISBN, synopsis, publisher, format, cover). Furthermore, when I do an author/title search, this incomplete version is the one that comes up. Its URL is:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Can you please delete this incomplete edition?

Many thanks in advance,

Athena Andreadis
Owner and Lead Editor
Candlemark & Gleam


message 550: by John (new)

John Blumenthal (goodreadscomjohn_blumenthal) | 16 comments Please delete this book from my author page and from all my other book pages: "Tracking Down The Truth" by John Blumenthal (ASIN: B01N7P092N)

I did not write this book

Thank you
John Blumenthal


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