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Please delete this book! (pt. 10)
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Aug 18, 2011 06:13PM
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This entry for "I Know What You Need" contains an image of a movie poster and absolutely no other info (incl. no ISBN) to indicate that it's a book not a movie. And yet four people added it. Huh?Seems like a candidate for deletion. But I'd like to know what those people thought they were adding; S. King does have a story by that title, but not published separately.
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I found another Stephen King item that seems to be just a story: Jerusalem's Lot. Please merge it with Night Shift. Thanks.
Actually, I meant merge it completely with one of the editions of Night Shift, thus deleting it; because it is just a story, not a book, never published independently.
needs super... asin in isbn field, already combined with the good edition.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
Please delete this:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...
It got nothing to do with the autor listed, isbn belongs to some other book.
Mitticus wrote: "Please delete this:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...
It got nothing to do with the autor listed, isbn belongs to some other book."
Edited to reflect correct authors.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Mitticus wrote: "Please delete this:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...
It got nothing to do with the autor listed, isbn belongs to some other book."
Edited to ref..."
edited to provide cover art
Placeholders:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86...
Got 15Got some of 19. First link is only edition with cover, but iPad will not let me upload
Last link needs combining again but combine seems to be looping sorted the rest
There's a chance I could be wrong and just looking in the wrong places, but when I search for the ISBN numbers listed with this book, nothing comes up. I thought I should check if there is another place to search for ISBN numbers other than WorldCat or Amazon.http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93...
Brenda, someone else got yours. Katie, the edition you pointed out is an ebook - it wouldn't come up on worldcat or amazon because (1) worldcat doesn't list ebooks (that I know of) and (2) amazon won't list ebooks other than their Kindle editions. Although I couldn't find it on a search on B&N, all the info came from B&N and it looks like a legitimate edition.
in reference to 21, I searched all the different sources I know of and came up with 0 results for those ISBN's the book may be valid, but it does not seem to have that ISBN based on an internet search.
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So there's not really a way to validate ISBN numbers, so as long as it has one, don't delete? Just trying to make sure I have that right for the future.
Katie wrote: "So there's not really a way to validate ISBN numbers, so as long as it has one, don't delete? Just trying to make sure I have that right for the future."I was also personally wondering about keeping the ISBN or not as well, I suppose since it does not conflict with a different book it could stay, but I did remove another a few days ago as it was not even a valid ISBN
In this case since it came from B&N at one point it was legitimate. If it comes from them or amazon I'd leave them. If they are user added with an ISBN, post it here just in case.
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How did you determine this?
rivka wrote: "Chuck wrote: "as it was not even a valid ISBN"How did you determine this?"
I'd have to go on a limb as it has been a few days, but I'm pretty sure it was either the library of congress site, or Wikipedia BookSources, that spat out a result similar to this - "The given ISBN does not appear to be valid; check for errors copying from the original source?" (which I pulled as an example from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...)
This was while cleaning out the wikipedia.com author page, the book was in Arabic and the number was not on B&N or Amazon either.
Cheating at Solitaire needs to be deleted. The author has only written two books to date and the book this link includes the synopsis of his book titled A Case of Exploding Mangoes and a fake book cover and title. I also crosschecked the ISBN and they match A Case of Exploding Mangoes.
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Sana wrote: "Cheating at Solitaire needs to be deleted. The author has only written two books to date and the book this link includes the synopsis of his book titled A Case of Exploding Mangoes a..."I updated the book to A Case of Exploding Mangoes. As the B&N site now has it listed as such, it looks like there was an error on B&N's part.
No need to delete it.
rivka wrote: "I would be especially careful with ISBN's from non-English-speaking countries, as the error is more likely to be the publisher's (and therefore the book really does have that ISBN)."reverted the ISBN removal just in care, it can always be removed again if needed
ISBN10 Only: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...needs to be merged into the ISBN13 only edition which is the most popular.
I also think this ISBN-less eBook edition can be merged into this eBook edition.
Gerd wrote: "Placeholder:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79..."
Got it. It wasn't a placeholder though, looks like someone just couldn't spell "exorcist" and added it as a new book.
Need some rivka help. I've seen a ton of blank editions being added by this guy. I suspect serial adder but I can't clean them up as his profile is private. Could you get him with your magical powers? Thanks!http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/60...
Vicky wrote: "Sana wrote: "Cheating at Solitaire needs to be deleted. The author has only written two books to date and the book this link includes the synopsis of his book titled A Case of Explod..."Okay thanks a lot!
This book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11... is listed as a paperback with an ASIN and should be deleted. Please merge with this book http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85... or one of the many editions of the same. Thanks.
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And re 51: it's a Kindle edition. We leave those alone.
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