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Please add missing books to series. (Done)
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Looks like someone has done this already.
Michele wrote: "Looks like someone has done this already."Hmm ... it's not showing up for me. Only book 1 is showing as done, that's why I never posted it.
When I go to the series page here: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1450... I see three titles: Finding Light, Secret Keepers, and Hands of Mercy. Is that not what you see?I'm not sure what you mean by "showing as done" or what you mean about "finishing" something. Could you explain in a bit more detail?
Michele wrote: "When I go to the series page here: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1450... I see three titles: Finding Light, Secret Keepers, and Hands of Mercy. Is that not what you see?I..."
Here are the links to Book 1. The first post shows that this book has an original title of Eyes of Light.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
The second link shows the original book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Books 2 and 3 aren't showing up like that for me.
Ah, I see now. So, when a book has been issued under multiple titles, the title displayed in the series list may be any one of those variants, depending on recency and popularity. In other words, we can't force one particular edition of a book to appear in the series -- the GR code decides which title to show.
Michele wrote: "Ah, I see now. So, when a book has been issued under multiple titles, the title displayed in the series list may be any one of those variants, depending on recency and popularity. In other words, w..."I contacted support about adding the books but for some reason they only added Book 1. I was hoping to get the other 2 books done here but I guess I will have to contact support for each book. Sigh. lol
The books that you are asking about are in the Goodreads database, and they are part of the series, as you can see -- if you look at Eyes of Light, for example, right above the title, it says "Bending Willow Trilogy #1"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
So I don't quite understand what it is you want. Are you saying you would like Book 2 to be displayed on the series page twice, under both of its titles? That is not possible.
Michele wrote: "The books that you are asking about are in the Goodreads database, and they are part of the series, as you can see -- if you look at Eyes of Light, for example, right above the title, it says "Bend..."Are you using the update Goodreads or the old Goodreads?
I think people see different things depending on what version they have.
I'm saying that this is the same book but with different titles.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
And that Guarding Secrets needs to be noted as "originally published as Secret Keepers" and then added to this series
https://www.goodreads.com/series/1450...
The same thing needs to be done with book 3.
OK, I think I see.Two of the three editions of Guarding Secrets had the "originally published" note; I've added it to the other one. Two of the three editions of Embracing Mercy had the "originally published" note; I've added it to the other one.
The series information displays on the individual book pages for all editions of Books 1 and 3, regardless of title. For example, book pages for both Hands of Mercy and Embracing Mercy display "Bending Willow Trilogy #3" above the title:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
For some reason, the series information is not displaying on any of the individual book pages for Guarding Secrets, I'm not sure why. Everything is correct in terms of the linkage to other editions and to the Bending Willow series. Maybe give it a few days? If it still doesn't show up we can report it to GR Support.
We cannot make multiple titles of the same book display on the series page itself. For each book only one title can be displayed on the series page. So, the series page will never display both Embracing Mercy and Hands of Mercy.
Does this help? I hope I've understood your wishes correctly, and explained the limitations of the series page display. Let me know if not :)
Michele wrote: "OK, I think I see.Two of the three editions of Guarding Secrets had the "originally published" note; I've added it to the other one. Two of the three editions of Embracing Mercy had the "original..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Yes! That is exactly what I wanted!
The copy above still needs to be noted as "originally published as Secret Keepers" but everything else looks perfect!!!
Sorry to be so much trouble over this but it is so annoying to buy a book and then realize that you already have it, but the title and cover was changed.
Done! Thanks for your patience -- we got there in the end :)
Book 2 - Originally published as Secret Keepers
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Book 3 - Originally published as Hands of Mercy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...