[DONE] Clean Up: Mark Notebooks / Journals as invalid

[paperlove]

It seems that the new Amazon bot has imported hundreds of notebooks and journals to Goodreads, but all of them do not count as books according to Goodreads guidelines. (They are empty notebooks, journals, or daily planners with no content). This means that the entries must all be marked as "Invalid". If anyone has the time and energy to help out, I'm linking below a few "authors" whose entries are all notebooks and need to be marked as invalid. There are way too many for me to do it alone.

Instructions:

Please change the author name to "NOT A BOOK" in all capital letters to mark them as invalid. If you do not use capital letters, it will not work and you will just change the author name (without marking the books as invalid).

[Scott]

If the entire "author's" oeuvre is invalid, the author name can be changed to "NOT A BOOK", which will bulk change all the works to invalid status.

[paperlove]

Oh, really? I didn't know that. Thanks for the advice. I will try it out.

[paperlove]

Ok, it worked. But now I've reached the librian limit for today. And the notebook "authors" are endless.

If someone wants to help with the clean up, you can search for "Notizbuch" in the Goodreads search bar (with fields to search: author). Almost every "author" there is invalid and needs to be changed into "NOT A BOOK". There are more than 100 pages...

https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...

[Scott]

May be something to send to support. I kept timing out when I was doing them.

[Karin]

Scott wrote: "If the entire "author's" oeuvre is invalid, the author name can be changed to "NOT A BOOK", which will bulk change all the works to invalid status."

If I understand correctly, I should change the author's name to NOT A BOOK?

So DIVORY Notizbuch becomes NOT A BOOK, do I also need to change the sort by name and shelf display name? Or only delete them?

https://www.goodreads.com/author/edit...

[Scott]

Changing the author name to NOT A BOOK will merge everything into whatever NOT A BOOK has set. You don't need to worry about the old name any more.

[lethe]

I thought the NOTABOOK profile was reverted to the respective authors by Goodreads when the new procedure for merging/deleting came into effect?

[Karin]

Scott wrote: "May be something to send to support. I kept timing out when I was doing them."

This too was my message: Goodreads request took too long.
The latest request to the Goodreads servers took too long to respond. We have been notified of the issue and are looking into it.

[Scott]

lethe wrote: "I thought the NOTABOOK profile was reverted to the respective authors by Goodreads when the new procedure for merging/deleting came into effect?"

Nope, they're all still there. The two functions (not a book/invalid) seem to be reflective of each other.

[Abcdarian]

I've found when you get the "took too long" message, go back a page & do it again. Depending on how many books are on the author, it will take a few tries but eventually goes through. (I did DIVORY Notizbuch. Satisfying. But there are way too many of these "authors".)

[Karin]

I did it!
Other search terms are: bullet journal, notebook A5 or A4, tagebuch, notitieboek, dagboek...

What are the search terms in other languages? LOL

[Arenda]

Please check if the profile only contains empty notebooks.
Coloring books are considered valid books.

[Karin]

oeps, sorry Arenda. How do I correct my mistake.

[Arenda]

Edit each item individually. Change author and change status to Public.

[Karin]

Arenda wrote: "Edit each item individually. Change author and change status to Public."

I thought so. Enfin, DONE

[paperlove]

thanks for your help! I don‘t know if you mean by „done“ that you have done everything, but there are still between 20k and 50k results with over 100+ pages if you search for „Notizbuch“ in the search bar. I‘ve reached the daily librarian limit again today.

[Karin]

My DONE means that I corrected my mistake with the colorbooks.

Yesterday "notizbuch" gave me no more results and that's why I looked at other search terms. Like coloring book which apparently is a "book" after all.
And now I do have results back at "notizbuch". I'll just stick with that, haha.

But what is the librarian limit?

[paperlove]

Oh ok, i wasn‘t sure. 😄
I got an error message saying that i‘ve reached the limit of 3000 edits per day. They want to prevent spam bots with this or something.

[paperlove]

I link below some "author" profiles that contain several hundred or even thousands of books and that have to be marked as "NOT A BOOK" or invalid.

If Goodreads takes too long for this and the error message "Goodreads took too long..." appears, you simply have to refresh the page (e.g. with the f5 key) and the whole process will continue. For author profiles with several thousand books, you have to repeat this several times, because the page always times out after a while.

Here are some of the author profiles with many books if someone wants to help to clean them up:

1) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... DONE
2) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... DONE
3) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
4) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... DONE
5) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
6) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
7) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
8) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
9) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
10) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
11) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
12) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
13) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
14) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
15) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
16) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
17) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
18) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done

[Karin]

I reached my limit for today, nr 1 is oké.

[paperlove]

Karin wrote: "I reached my limit for today, nr 1 is oké."

thank you for your help. sometimes, it works again after a while and you don't have to wait a whole day, even if you've reached the librarian limit.

[Karin]

4) done, working on 3) but over the limit now. :-)

Thanks for the tip.

[Karin]

3) done

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

#20 author 18 is done

[Karin]

6) and 7) done but not all by me.

[paperlove]

here are some more:

19) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
20) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
21) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
22) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
23) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
24) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
25) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
26) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
27) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
28) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
29) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
30) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
31) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
32) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
33) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
34) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
35) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
36) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
37) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
38) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
39) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
40) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
41) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done

[Karin]

For 12) something weird happenend. I set it to "not a book" instead of "NOT A BOOK". So if you work on it further don't be confused.

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

you need to use the all caps - otherwise it's a new author profile (like always on that page with a differing capitalization :/ )

[Karin]

Yes, I figured it out after a while. Little panic here. (^o^)

[Karin]

14) done
and OMG for nr 15) DECOY’S BOOKS= 26,949 distinct works!

[Ollie]

could I add some work for you?
these are tons of

calendar
Calendar Planner 2020 2021 QNY Publishing
calendar chameleons 2021 Gifts
calendar 2022 yorkie
Calendar Monthly Planner
Calendario Docente 2022/2023
calendar 2021 2029
calendar 2021 publiching
etc

[☕ Lachgas ♿]

not sure if it's worth working on those notebooks to be honest.
(have NABed a ton of them in the past (+ calendars) so it might be a bit frustration speaking...)

I sent a profile I came across to support to NAB it (they wouldn't run into the limit at least - I guess) but the answer was just that they are working on a solution to get them all properly NABed.
And no action on their part.

So if they don't care about the clutter at the moment I'll spent my time more useful with adding new records I guess.

In case you want to add it to the list (if it's not already there) it's Devid Ryan https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

[paperlove]

How long has it been since you wrote with support? I also reported the notebook issue to support, but in my case it's only been a week.

However, I have also noticed that the problem is getting bigger. The Amazon bot is importing new books every day. That's why I'm currently focusing on the "author" accounts that have a few thousand of these types of books.

[Karin]

31, 32,33,34) done

[paperlove]

42) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
43) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
44) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
45) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
46) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
47) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
48) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
49) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done
50) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... done

[paperlove]

Does anyone else have the problem that some of the links from #36 (e.g. 42) and 50) don't open anymore? It just loads forever until at some point you get the message "Goodreads request took too long." weird.

[Karin]

42) I can't load, also 46), 50)

And some other requests (not only here) loads indeed forever until the GR message.

[paperlove]

oh ok. i wasn't sure, if it's my internet connection or goodreads.

[Arenda]

paperlove wrote: "Does anyone else have the problem that some of the links from #36 (e.g. 42) and 50) don't open anymore? It just loads forever until at some point you get the message "Goodreads request took too lon..."

The same is happening with other authors, like Jane Austen for example.

[paperlove]

Some more:

Vornamen Notizbücher für Jungs und Mädchen done
Willa Costell done
Elia Lang done
Bruna Valentina done
Mats Duvini done
Birth Present Publishing done
PlainPage Publishing done
Tobias Publishing done
Jacob Heininger done
MM Notizen SW done
MyNameBooks done
Notizen Notizblock done
Schuhboutique Doris Finke done
Jennifer Risseno done
Anja Krummeck done

[paperlove]

Leonie Berger done
Saravi Herausgeber done
Studium Go done
Chahd H.K Veröffentlichung done
Rudolf Kashmir done
Miley Abellan done

[paperlove]

Shimpu Production
Das Mitbringsel für deine Stadt
adlibitum Publishing
EoR Design

done

[paperlove]

Nathalie Brinkmann
Lustige Designs
T Richter
Rabea Ivana Ger Publishing
Aqua SB&GR Publishing
Christin L.
Fritzi Maier
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Maximilian Mustermann
Kreativwerkstatt Berlin
Anmoning Publishing
Eleonora Denelli
Cliff Long
creative notes
Medo.2021 Joseph.noteart

done

[Ollie]

Simachev D. and all his Bloknot dlya zapisey
which means "Notebook for notes" in Russian

also
Bloknot dlya zapisey "Odinokaya pchela"
Bloknot. Edinorogi
Bloknot "Andrey Makarevich. Molodost"
Bloknot "Andrey Makarevich. Solist"

[Ollie]

Anushka Rich

Scarlet Lancaster

Hamilton Nichozzelas

[Jennifer]

A: Anime Publishing
B: mahdi nkl
C: Awesome Journals
D: Stephan Beike
E: Toshiko Fukutani
F: My Office Notebook

[paperlove]

Chris Richter
Sašo Krulc
Pm Books
omilia loumia
111NOTEBOOKS
fati miliaka
Dennis Weiss
lorenzo tosca
Moningam Publishing
Leo Lokal

done

[paperlove]

Anabel Sandt
julia majina
Stud10 Journals
N.M.B publishing
Floyd Splitter
Martin ISM
NB bilezone
Matthias und Philipp Müller
omar ben
Moningano Publishing
stiven binjamin
Mike Lang

done

[paperlove]

4MYNEEDS Publishing
Mario Reus
Mama Ritta
Deep Art
Rike RG Dea Publishing
FncyFrshFrksAnml Publishing
Clara Becker
Mehdi Schneider
Christiana James

done