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message 1: by ClaraJ (new)

ClaraJ | 2 comments Hi,
I am unable to add a quote to The Emperor Book 1 as the title is not shown under the author name in the "add a quote" section.
Book 2 is available but book 1 and 3 are not listed in the section.

The book is available on the GR site, see link below.

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


message 2: by Arenda (new)

Arenda | 26448 comments When there are multiple authors with the same name, GR uses one or more extra spaces between first and last name in the author profile to separate the authors. Usually this isn't noticed, but adding a quote is one of the instances where it matters.

The Robert Reid who wrote these books has 9 spaces between first and last name. That is hard to figure out when you're not a GR Librarian.

One way to make sure that you have the correct author when posting a quote is:
- go to the author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
- scroll down to the section "Quotes by Robert Reid". That section title is a link and leads to this page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quot...
- at the top right of that page is a link: "Add a quote"
When you use that link (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/new?...), the correct number of spaces is used and the books from that author will show in the dropdown menu.

[By the way: book 2 was on the wrong Robert Reid profile, so I've moved it and combined it with the other edition of book 2.
I've also created a series page for these books: https://www.goodreads.com/series/3734...]


message 3: by ClaraJ (new)

ClaraJ | 2 comments Thank you for your help.


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