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Librarian help - Requests to add page numbers, publication year, Prize Worthy, etc.
Harbrace Modern Classics it is. Thank you.
Good! Does it have a nicer cover?
No, the cover is pretty blah!
Ok, I hope the insides are good. I read a couple of Sinclair Lewis years ago and enjoyed them.
itpdx wrote: "I can't find an edition of Arrowsmith on Goodreads that matches the one I have from my local library http://catalog.multcolib.org/search~S......"OK. Located the cover and added it, cleaned up and corrected part of the data. Should be all fixed now. =)
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I read Carry Yourself Back to Me and I don't know how I keep managing to find the wrong link, but it wasn't the audibook or CD version that I read, it was the actual paperback...ISBN 978-0-547-84802-0. It is listed as having 320 pages, but the last numbered page I saw was 316. Thanks for the help, sorry for the inconvenience!
Carry Yourself Back to MeWow! That one was way off. Does this one have everything you want? When you use the add book/author link you can put in that ISBN to do the search.
Ah!! Since it just says "book/author" for the link search I didn't think it would accept ISBN numbers :-) I already posted this book improperly a few days ago and got a message from Liz about the problem...so what do I need to do at this point to get my proper book listed and credited? Do I just need to repost the same task with the correct biblio info? (And thank you so much for your help! I really appreciate it.)
Yes, repost. And be as clear as possible when reposting what the problem was, or your original message #, that sort of thing. Liz will be able to find and correct the scoresheet.Sometimes the Goodreads labels aren't as clear as we'd hope, but it doesn't take long to learn them, once you know the key.
You're welcome, Anika. Hope you're enjoying the challenge!
Last week Goodreads severed its data-sharing tie with Amazon. You may have noticed, this has resulted in a loss of data that was sourced from Amazon, such as book covers, descriptions, publication dates, etc. Your ratings and reviews are safe!Since our group relies so heavily on original publication dates, which applies to all editions, I will work on getting these back into the database. As you know, I can also add page numbers, but that piece of information is edition specific.
Here’s the deal:
1. You can ask for the original publication date for a specific book that you are/will be reading for the current challenge (Winter, Spring, whatever), if it will give you additional points. Please post a link in this thread. These requests will take priority over #2 below. With this request, if you know/need the page numbers for your edition, include it in your request. You should get all the points to which you’re entitled.
2. I will work on fixing the first-pub dates on books you have shelved, first come, first served. However, this can mean thousands of dates, so I’ll be looking only at your unread books for the present. Some of you have everything unread on a To Read shelf, and have prioritized your reads on a non-exclusive shelf. To be fair to others, it would be appreciated if you would request this smaller non-exclusive shelf. Keep in mind, this project will take some time.
hi again :-)I just noticed that the bibliographic info on this last book I read was incorrect... The Song of the Lark shows original pub. date as 1937 but it was, in fact, originally published in 1915. Also, when I input the ISBN for for the copy I read (9780141181042) it comes up with a different book with considerably different page-count. Can you help a girl out? Thanks! Hope you're enjoying your "winter" ;-)
Anika, what is the correct page count for your edition?
434 pages, but when I click on the link the biblio info says 464. sorry to throw this on your plate...just read the post about the goodreads/amazon split. argh! what a pain! thanks for everything you do! (i'm kinda in love with this book group...i rave about it to everyone.) really appreciate the time and thought that you admins put into it <3
OK, your edition is showing 434 pages. The system automatically brings up the most popular edition if you just search by title. You can always enter the ISBN in the search field (either at the top of the page or in the add book/author window) to get your exact edition. When posting for CiV, you will want to make sure your linking to the edition you read to have it qualify on the right slot machine reel. I did get the original publication date fixed - thanks for bringing to our attention!
I did my search by ISBN instead of title both when I posted it for RwS points and also when posting the question on this thread, but the link it created was to the most popular edition regardless :-( don't know if it's something to do with the fact that i'm posting from my smartphone...?
Interesting, Anika. I don't use a phone for the internet, but perhaps I'll pose that question over the GR Feedback group.
I'm reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and was going to use it for lenght 781-820. My copy from Amazon,ISBN-13:978-0307739964,has 800 pages, but Goodreads list it at 820.Amazon information is:
Mass Market Paperback: 800 pages
Publisher: Vintage (June 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307739961
ISBN-13: 978-0307739964
Please advise if I can use it or not.
Just happened to be passing by ....Fixed this for you!
Dearest Elizabeth!I'm here to bother you yet again. I read The Christmas Wife by Helen Norris for CiV.
While the pages in the book match up, the pub date is off. The goodreads listed date is 1970, but it wasn't published til 1985 (it's a collection of short stories and the earliest story wasn't even published until 1982). Here is a link to the record from my library, if it helps clarify at all: http://wclcat.weberpl.lib.ut.us/searc...#
Sorry to be such a pain. Again. :-)
Thanks for all your help and hope all is well in your corner of the world!
No problem, Anika! You're good to go on this one!
Hello, is it possible to still ask for changes to book links? I have Holiday in Death (ISBN # 9780425163719) at 326 pages (308 if you don't include the preview for the next book). Thanks!
Tobey wrote: "Hello, is it possible to still ask for changes to book links? I have Holiday in Death (ISBN # 9780425163719) at 326 pages (308 if you don't include the preview for the next book). ..."I'm not sure which edition is the one you have linked, but the ISBN you're interested in has that page length:
Holiday in Death
(and no, it's never too late to request this type of thing.)
Hmm, okay thanks. Same ISBN#, different cover (I linked to the edition with my cover that doesn't list the page numbers). It's all good!
Ah, sometimes books will be listed with an alternate cover; I forget how to do that, but I'll post in the librarian's group and get it done for you.
Ok, so what do I know? They tell me over the Librarian's group that what you linked is the alternate cover for the ISBN. I'll fix the page length for you. (Always learning something new.)
I saw the page numbers were added, thanks Elizabeth!
I've checked a book from the library that I can't find a Goodreads link to. It is Poems of Robert Browning selected by Rosemary Sprague. It was published in 1964 and has no ISBN number but does have a Lib. of Cong Catalog Card Number - 64 - 22173. The publisher is Thomas Y. Crowell Company - New York. It is hard cover (Library Binding)with 152 pages.If I read it, is there a way I can link to it?
It's tricky, but you can. 1) Go to the book's page and from your browser's address bar
(.../book/show/ 13580859 -poems-of-robert-browning) copy the book number.
2) In your post, link to an edition of the poems [ book:Poems of Robert Browning|562274 ].
3) Replace the number at the end of the book link with the number you copied from the address of the book's page: [ book:Poems of Robert Browning|13580859 ]
The result: Poems of Robert Browning
I am reading Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated Edition by Gary Snyder for 20.7 Poet's Non-Poetry and was going to claim "oldie" points for it because my book shows the first publication was in 1983. Wikipedia also shows the publication date in 1983. But none of the editions on Goodreads indicate this.
You need to look at the grey "first published" date, it says 1983 :)
itpdx wrote: "I am reading Passage Through India: An Expanded and Illustrated Edition by Gary Snyder for 20.7 Poet's Non-Poetry and was going to claim "oldie" points for it because my book shows the first public..."Fixed!
Aha Elizabeth must have done it right before I posted! :)
Whew! you are so fast! I couldn't imagine how I had missed it based on Rosemary's reply only to find that you had fixed it in the blink of an eye.
A couple of days ago, a student brought me a book that he, his brother and his mom wrote. It's called The Maui Quest and it is described as a "thriller-travelogue, a young man's journey to deliver his father's ashes" and "following the footsteps of his family around the island", so I think it fits our road trip task. Is there a way it can be entered?ISBN 9781477491225
Karen, I put in a request, but I know GR's policy is to not rely on Amazon for information. I have to go there for the rest of the information, so I'll have to wait to see what I can get for policy. I assume you have a copy, and will probably be coming back to you.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Still needs a cover, and it needs page numbers. The Maui Quest"Thanks, Elizabeth! I'll confirm the page numbers with you tomorrow(the book's at school)and hopefully I will get the cover picture tomorrow, too.
What I need for the cover photo is a URL. If you will upload as a photo to your profile, I can get it there.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "What I need for the cover photo is a URL. If you will upload as a photo to your profile, I can get it there."Ok, I'll do that when I get the picture.
I'm listening to the audiobook version of The Pickwick Papers. Which version should I use for page count?
From the FAQ thread:Different editions of books have widely different number of pages, and ebooks and audiobooks may not have pages at all. How do you determine page count for the 100 page minimum and for awarding Jumbo points?
In the interest of fairness, members that read the same book should receive the same amount of jumbo style points, no matter which edition is used. We will use the most popular English-language print edition to determine page count...
ETA: That Elizabeth is fast!
LOL - I had been away from the computer for awhile, so my timing was better than I was fast. But I'm going to go read now for a bit. ;-)
Good on the points because even though it is funny, it is taking forever to listen to. More than 30 hrs!I wasn't sure if the first book listed was the most popular edition or not
Help! I'm reading The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell: With the Original Persian on the Facing Page for underrated. I think I should also be able to claim points for oldies, but the publish date is 1995. Bell first published her translation in 1897. Or can I claim the dates that Hafiz penned the poetry in the 14th century?
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