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Susan wrote: "I'm trying to clean up an author (Piers Anthony) and noticing a WHOLE LOT of multi-book packs... should I not-a-book them or leave them in the groups Amazon.com has them under Piers Anthony?"Specific examples with links? It's hard to tell from your description whether these are legitimate "box sets" or the kind of multi-book packs that appropriately should be NABbed, or the more recent imports of used items from Amazon with ASINs due to a software flaw.
Love the poem MissJessie!Susan - If the books are in box sets or something with an ISBN (or alt cover edition), do not NAB them.
If they are multi-book sets with an ASIN, we've determined those are from 3rd party sellers of used books through Amazon, so go ahead and NAB those.
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Actually, now that the backdoor they were sneaking in through is patched, it's far better to delete them. (Combine with their closest match first if anyone has shelved them.)
Yay! I hadn't heard about the patch - that is great!Thanks rivka!
Did the patch take care of the ASIN only books that were NAB'ed? Or is that another project?
If they have been reviewed or have been added to shelves we have to fix them whether they are nabed or not.
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A script was run to delete the existing books, but it only deleted those that either had not been shelved at all, or which were combined with other editions.
Okay, I went to add this book Medieval Tapestries Coloring Book to my shelves and was surprised to find it had been NABed. Is there anyway that this decision can be reversed, as I beg to differ that it's not a book. Who makes the decision whether something is a book or not? I certainly bought it as a reference book to keep, and it comes with an ISBN, so why isn't it a book? Am I missing something?
* coloring books (except those for reference or which tell a story) The manual agrees with you I'd say. Not sure why it got NAB'ed.
But it's not the only one where people have trouble telling the diff:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30...
Yes, this is definitely for reference as all the illustrations are from real tapestries and they are named and dated in the book.Can someone reverse the NAB then?
We'd need the name of the Editor to replace the "Not a book" entry.Edit: Found one via google.
I've already changed it. I was looking at the other two and had not yet made a note.
And please don't just change NABs back if they are in those massive combines. They have to be separated first. I'll go back and get that one someone just did.
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outraged librarians
Who are offended by NABing with which they disagree;
And by opposi..."
Love this!!!!! Mwahahahaha!!!