Error in Title

[Rachel]

Not sure if I'm doing this right! Just wanted to report a possible error in a book title. One of the Kindle versions of "The Forsyte Saga" is mistakenly titled "Forste Sage."

Here's the link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...

And the ASIN: B001U88YX6

(I'm also trying to follow up with Kindle.)

[Flannery]

Changed.

[Rachel]

Awesome! (Now, if only Amazon had a 5-minute turnaround! =)

[Call me Random]

This needs title editation AND author change. The book is called Pokemon Stickdex and the author is Cris Silvestri.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72...

Just who the hey is this NOT A BOOK dude?

[Kim]

Call me Random wrote: "This needs title editation AND author change. The book is called Pokemon Stickdex and the author is Cris Silvestri."

Not it doesn't because it isn't a proper book. It's a sticker book. And I love how the review is actually about the Harry Potter one, not Pokemon :P

[Call me Random]

.....How was I suppose to know? I'm autisic, and I own the book. I still want to know who/what this NOT A BOOK fella is.

[Carolyn]

Call me Random wrote: ".....How was I suppose to know? I'm autisic, and I own the book. I still want to know who/what this NOT A BOOK fella is."

NOT A BOOK is our librarians' notation to move the item out of the regular book database (as much as we can), and so that people who find it can easily see that notation, and hopefully not rate the item. We use it for all the items that have been deemed 'not-books" that unfortunately get loaded in through Amazon, etc. because they have valid ISBNs on them. Things like calendars, blank journals, kids coloring books, sticker books, postcard books, multipacks of the same book (not box sets of books, but multiple copies of the same book), etc.
If you'd like to, you can see the whole list in the Librarian's Manual, or in the 'Author Bio' for the NOT A BOOK 'author' you've linked to above.

[Call me Random]

I still don't get it.

[Nenangs]

Hello Random.

NOT A BOOK is not a person nor a book :). it is just A NOTE, an agreed (between librarians) identical note to mark any entry that is not considered as book, but something else like calendars, card decks, posters, etc.

such NOT A BOOK(s) entries usually enter GR database due to automatic upload by online booksellers (e.g. amazon & barnes&nobles). the librarians agreed to mark them as NOT A BOOK to avoid people giving ratings & reviews to the wrong items.

however, if the stickerbooks (please honorable libs, give us some verdicts in this) are considered real books (as indicated here and the edits, also on the harry potter one), they must be separated from the other NOT A BOOk items.

btw, if stickerbooks are considered as book, i can add some stickerbooks of my own, memorabilias of my childhood. :)

[Nenangs]

Kim wrote: "Not it doesn't because it isn't a proper book. It's a sticker book. And I love how the review is actually about the Harry Potter one, not Pokemon :P "

The thing that you love was happened just because the pokemon stickerbook and the harry potter stickerbook is combined as the same book from different edition.:)
it should be separated, but only after the verdict, from the power that be, that stickerbooks are considered as legit book entries. :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Stickerbooks are not books, unless they have significant text. Just like coloring books and the like.

[Nenangs]

what if they don't have significant text, but have a story?
not that i have found a stickerbook with a story, but just in case. i think it is almost similar to some comicbooks/graphicnovels that don't have text, no?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Graphic novels have text. Not always in text blocks, but nonetheless.

[Cait]

Pictures that tell a story can be considered "text" for these purposes -- for example, wordless storybooks for children. :)

If a "sticker book" is a picture book which tells a story and also allows the reader to interact with stickers, that's a book. (I have seen books like this, although I can't at the moment find a clear example.) If it's just a page of stickers meant to be discarded when the stickers are pulled off and stuck elsewhere, then it's not a book. Things get called "sticker books" when they are either kind of item, confusingly.

Call me Random, another librarian edited this book entry to reflect your information and I've separated it from the other items on the assumption that it has content other than the stickers. Is that correct?

(Whether this sticker book is or isn't a book, it shouldn't be combined with the other items. I think it was combined by accident a while ago and, since it's a collection of things which aren't books, no librarian has happened to fix it.)

[Nenangs]

some examples:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...
almost no text, no significant text anyway.

[Nenangs]

i remember discussing some other non text-ed graphic novels by a particular author with my friends. i will comeback when i find it.

[Call me Random]

Cait wrote: "Pictures that tell a story can be considered "text" for these purposes -- for example, wordless storybooks for children. :)

If a "sticker book" is a picture book which tells a story and also allow..."

Oh thanks.

[Nenangs]

here is one of them:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48...

there's even listopia for that "wordless" graphic novels:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/46...
though i may be wrong about the meaning of "wordless".

[Nenangs]

whoopsie..thanks cait. :)

sorry for seemingly ignorant of your explanation. :)
i search by opening another tab while replying with another. makes me unaware of your explanation :)

[Cait]

Thank you for the listopia link, Nenangs! I might have to try some of those. :)

[Sandra]

Just so you know, I do have a sticker book with significant text, so they do exist. :)

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Sandra wrote: "Just so you know, I do have a sticker book with significant text"

I have seen some. It's what I had in mind when I specified the exception.

[Sandra]

:D Rivka