Adding editions failures

[John]

Yesterday I tried adding editions of two books that I own that were not in the existing lists of alternate editions. Nothing happened, even though I got the "book has been created" message. I had no problem with this last week; yesterday I thought perhaps my first attempt failed because I had just skipped the personal review, so I tried again making sure I checked the "I own a copy" box. The second time I thought I might just be checking on it too soon so I came back two hours later to find it still missing. I decided a bug must have shown up and would be cleared up today, but no such luck. Is anyone else having this problem? Have I exceeded some limit on new-librarian activity?

[rivka, Former Moderator]

What books?

[John]

The Allingham Minibus and The Mind Readers, both by Margery Allingham. I just tried Tether's End, also by Allingham, and fared no better.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

You added the first one three times:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I think maybe the issue is that you are expecting the added edition to automatically be combined with its fellows, which is not what happens. they have to be manually combined.

[[deleted user]]

Combined and removed the duplicates. Happy New Year :)

[John]

My problem was that my additions didn't show up in the "other editions" or "change edition" lists, nor in my "books I own" list. (Since your response they do.) If I missed a step to combine them--if that's what I needed to do--I wonder what I did last week with my added editions that I didn't this week.

[John]

Thanks!