Average waiting time for new books to be added?

[D]

I know the librarians are very busy and volunteers, but wondered if there's an average waiting time for new books to be added.

I requested one and when I went back to look, it was back 15 pages of new requests!

So I'm just wondering now how long it might be before I can add it to lists.

[Davide]

I'm still waiting. It was better when we could do that easily.

[D]

I'm wondering if this is how Amazon phases out Goodreads, looking at the massive backlog.

[Alec]

waited for 3 weeks I think and its still not done... >_> There is no way they will ever get enough volunteers that can keep up with the demand. Goodreads should really change it back to how it was or get a better forum where they delete everything that's finished (or move it into an archive folder) so that the volunteers can put in the books that are furthest back in the queue first. With the current system they basically just take the newest stuff and ignore stuff that's on page 50 because they don't know where the last not done thing is located. And I do not blame the volunteers for this. They're absolutely doing their best. Goodreads should know better than to put all this on too few volunteers.

[lethe]

Alec wrote: "With the current system they basically just take the newest stuff and ignore stuff that's on page 50 because they don't know where the last not done thing is located."

Actually, a lot of librarians are working their way forward through the requests (from old to new), but bumping your request makes it move forward in the list so librarians will only see it later, and if you don't mention in the topic title it is still open, they will likely pass it by because they think it has already been handled.

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

A lot of us are well aware there are open requests in the past.
I for example use the "unread threads" function for that (had wiped it as I started) and am currently working on threads were the last! posting is from 6th.
If aynone had maybe done his on 3rd and bumped it on 12th it will take me a while until I get to that date - and I'll likely just click on it to get it out of the list, because I assume it's already done. (same with 3 postings in thread)

[D]

I haven't bumped my thread so hopefully it's going to be seen. 4 People had read it last I looked but I don't know if any were librarians.

Would it be possible to determine lag time by say, looking at the posting date of ones being dealt with now?

[D]

I think I've worked how to do this. I used the search to find my thread so I could see the posting date, then just went back until I found it (page 136 today!)

The number of book requests for the same date tells me what a daunting task this is, I feel for the volunteers!

Anyway, I checked some random books on the following pages to see if they had been added and some have been done from the very next page. There was one newer than mine done, so hopefully it's up soon.

I don't know how many librarians are on this or how they allocate.

[Dobby]

We'd like to please urge people to not delete your book-add request when it's been done. That usually leaves a single post that looks like it hasn't been addressed yet.

Right now, I'm working on page 171, requests posted on July 7.

We appreciate your patience.

[D]

Thank you for your efforts.