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Korean language requests
Heejin wrote: "#64: It’s a scam"Thank you. I'll report it.
Old requesthttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
WorldCat link: https://search.worldcat.org/title/960...
There is not much info provided about the book, but the title looks Korean to me (apologies if I am wrong) - maybe you'll be able to get more info (?) https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...There's a WorldCat link to the 2023 edition, if that helps: https://search.worldcat.org/title/145...
#78 and #79: Web novels. Not sure what to do with them (Some librarians add them and some don't)#80: Done
I think you can close those threads that are requesting web novels to be added. According to the policy "webcomics are not valid for inclusion (unless published in individual volume(s) in print or as ebook(s))" so I guess those requests do not meet GR criteria for addition to the database.
(Although I do not really understand this rule - are Wattpad stories or other fanfics technically not web novels / web comics as well? I would argue they are, yet they are valid for addition even tho other web novels are not... Goodreads can be confusing sometimes).
Heejin I left a message on 44/79. From what I gather the publisher is the equivalent of Kobo and you must sign up for its service in order to read the book. Please tell me if my translator made an error.
#90: Not exactly sure what you mean. What is Kobo? Also the page doesn't seem to require a sign-up. (Usually only R-rated materials require sign-ups, and it's not one of them) I can open the page in the incognito mode without a problem. What part of the website did you translate with the translator?The reason I didn't add that book(s) was it was a web novel, and 241 was not the page count but the number of episodes. People seem to have different opinions whether web novels qualify. And also many of those Ridibooks web novels have been published as e-books with ISBNs, which may qualify, but those e-book info is usually only carried by bookseller sites and I couldn't find a non-bookseller site with the info. I don't want to reject all those web novel based e-books wholesale because they account for a lot of books these days in Korea, but I haven't found a way to effectively deal with them either, so I have been not touching them. Some suggested I should just close them; maybe I should.
Anyway the website the requester included was not the e-book version; it was the web novel version.
In the top corner it has a "join the membership" button. Those sites are expressly forbidden.Kobo is the Aussie version of Amazon, so a direct competitor. What I understand from reading the extremely old threads Kobo was allowed until Amazon purchased GoodReads.
As to closing the requests, that "update" the site did last month had ALL comments defaulted to not being notified. I truly don't know what they were thinking. I spent a few days going through my old messages re-clicking the "notify me" button, but there are just too many of them. I have a feeling we are going to be dealing with the fallout for months.
#90 and #92:> In the top corner it has a "join the membership" button. Those sites are expressly forbidden.
You can see the book info without "join the membership", so it's not that you need to sign up to view the book info.
> From what I gather the publisher is the equivalent of Kobo and you must sign up for its service in order to read the book.
Ridibooks is a Korean bookseller site, which only sells e-books. Ridibooks also owns some subsidiary publishers. I don't think you can actually read a book from a bookseller site (other than previewing the first dozen pages)? Anyway you can think of it as just a normal bookseller site. Only R-rated materials require sign-ups to view the info.
I'm not a fan of the rules about allowed sites. It allows almost all English books, or languages used in countries where Amazon is operating, to be added without a problem, but librarians who add books written in other languages have little recourse on finding appropriate book sources.
I didn't know about the update about the notifications. Sounds like a pain.
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