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And this one as well--it should be #4 rather than #6:The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia #6) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65...
Have you seen that there are two different series pages for the Chronicles of Narnia? The second has the books in the order that you use.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that I originally added to my own shelves has now been edited to read #2, rather than #1 in the series. The title are tagged completely out of order. Given that the series number is listed with the title, shouldn't it show the correct number?
Given that the series number is listed with the title, shouldn't it show the correct number?Unfortunately, we can't specify series by edition, only by book. When some editions of the book are printed in one order and some are printed in the other, we have to pick one order to be the primary order which shows next to the title, and the chronological order is the one printed on the most popular editions of the book. (I hold to publication order myself! I am with you on this! But, alas, we are in the edition-shelving minority here.)
Bah! I work in publishing, so my natural inclination is for published order. It isn't the end of the world or anything, but still!How about removing the numbering from the titles and adding a librarian note to each one instead?
The numbering is provided by the "series" listing, so not removable. We could move the published order to be the first series, so that that numbering would show instead. I don't know if that would be stepping on anyone's toes.
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I am new in trying to figure out how to navigate through Goodreads and I was adding my books to my author page and realized that I have two copies of the same book. I have tried to figure out how to merge them into the same book because they are the same book, or to delete the one that has no picture on it completely but I am missing the information somehow. I may not even be posting on the right thread :O) If anyone can help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Bella, the easiest way to add books to the GR catalog if they're currently for sale as Kindle editions on Amazon is to enter the book's ASIN into the search form; this creates the book automatically using the data from the Amazon record. I'll see what I can do about getting your books in order now. :)
Thank you so much for the information Cait! I will do that next time!
No problem! :) If you have the ASIN set for Kindle editions they'll link to the Amazon page via the "buy this book" button, so there's no need to put the Amazon link in the URL field (we ask that people not put booksellers in that field). It should be all sorted now, and I created series as well (which should show up on your author profile in a day or so). If there's anything else you need, feel free to ask in this group -- a new thread under Book Issues is usually the best place to get help.
My book has been added to Goodreads but my publisher and I are having 2 problems. First, we input the correct Kindle ASIN, but the link results in an Amazon page that says it can't find that number in their system. I checked again with Kindle on the phone. They confirmed that's the number. Do you know why this is happening and how to fix it?Next: how do we merge 2 copies of it? (The Flaw in the Fabric, A Travellers Guide for Lost Souls)
If two Kindle books have different ASINs, they are different editions and shouldn't be merged.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/...It looks like she has a new series that needs to be created and will eventually have 10 titles (according to her website), but I wasn't sure if this was a case where they should be added to a series and reformatted or not so I didn't do anything. Any thoughts?
Jared wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/...It looks like she has a new series that needs to be created and will eventually have 10 titles (according to her website), but I wasn't..."
I created the series.
Lobstergirl wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/series/1217...How can it be a series with only one work?"
When nobody adds the other books :)
Added other books to the series.
The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia #1)
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65...