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message 1: by Shadow Jubilee (last edited May 14, 2012 11:25AM) (new)

Shadow Jubilee (uhqs) | 35 comments When I looked up What Einstein Kept Under His Hat, I found two separate, applicable search results. One was for the paperback/hardcover editions and the other were the separate audiobook editions. In my attempt to combine the two editions, I didn't notice that the paperback/hardcover editions were...messed up, somehow. The paperback edition of What Einstein Kept Under His Hat seemed to have been combined with the books titled Corner Boy by Herbert Simmons at some point so that when I combined the audiobook and paperback editions of What Einstein Kept Under His Hat, those titles got added as well.

I thought I separated the Corner Boy titles out, and when I do a search for that title, it looks clean (although it says it has 16 editions but only 7 show up).

The problem is with What Einstein Kept Under His Hat. When I first looked it up after combining, the link led me to the book page for Corner Boy, which is how I found out that something was wrong.

As I was working on separating Corner Boy, a search for that title resulted in showing at least the audiobook editions.

Now, neither the audiobook editions nor the paperback editions show up. A search for the author, Robert L. Wolke, does not list this title. However, it is listed under authors' pages (Marlene Parrish is the other, according to Worldcat.org).

But now when I try to click on those titles - or even the authors - I am getting a Page Unavailable message.

I don't know what I did wrong, whether I did anything wrong, or whether this is a bug or something. Could someone help me sort this out? Thanks!


Edit: As soon as I posted, GR went down. I think. I saw the Bertrand Russell quote at any rate, and Downforeveryoneorjustme.com said it was down. But strangely enough, it still says that. What's going on? I'm so confused.


message 2: by Paula (new)

Paula (paulaan) | 7014 comments It looks fine now either someone sorted it or it was a caching issue

There may be a caching delay on the Hertbert Simmons page as the More editions page is showing 1 of 7 when there are only 6. Check again tomorrow


message 3: by Vicky (new)

Vicky (librovert) | 2462 comments Goodreads seems pretty unstable today. Chances are it's just a matter of everything catching up. I would check in on it tomorrow before you worry too much about doing something wrong. :)


message 4: by Shadow Jubilee (last edited May 14, 2012 12:50PM) (new)

Shadow Jubilee (uhqs) | 35 comments I was wondering whether that might be it but I wasn't sure! Thanks for checking up.

My only remaining concern is that I'm pretty sure that there had been other tree-editions of this book besides the one I combined but now it only shows the one paperback. I'm not even sure how to find the other versions I thought I saw when I was separating the Cover Boy titles from the Einstein titles.

Edit: Regarding the Page Unavailable, I noticed a thread in the Feedback group which did lead me to believe that GR is feeling really buggy today.


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