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Can I search my owned books for those flagged as not meeting standards?
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There's an issue with import bots marking books as invalid. Could you please link to the specific editions you're having trouble with?
But anyway, my actual question is whether there is any way I can find which of my books I've added as read or owned that are marked as no longer meeting standards so I can edit my reviews and change them to another edition if there is one ? Is there any option to see this in for example batch edit mode or if I export my book list ?
No, there isn't a way to see this information (the "edition status") for multiple books at once. Sadly, it's not shown on a shelf (like Read or Want To Read) or in batch edit mode; there's no way to search for it; and it's not in an export file. The only way to know for sure AFAIK is to click on each book, one by one, to see if that edition has a message about "not meeting our catalog standards."
When you do see this message, it's almost always an error. Goodreads' automatic software, aka bot, often changes a valid edition to this status when it shouldn't.
If you include the link for the edition with the problem, a librarian can check it and fix the status, if it's a bot-created error (which it usually is).
This is new to me and I've not seen this before even though I've been with Goodreads for quite a few years.
I don't know why this happens but regardless of that I can of course go in and select another edition (though this is not always possible since sometimes the edition I own does not have any alternate with the same cover).
But anyway, my actual question is whether there is any way I can find which of my books I've added as read or owned that are marked as no longer meeting standards so I can edit my reviews and change them to another edition if there is one ? Is there any option to see this in for example batch edit mode or if I export my book list ?