Cover thumbnails

[Paul]

Dear all - I just became a librarian, it's been an ambition of mine for weeks - anyway I found several of my favourite books with no cover thumbnails so I scanned them and uploaded them and it seemed to work, but when you click on the actual thumbnail you just get a blank page rather than a page with a large version.

Example:

http://tinyurl.com/2x3nm3

(otherwise known as http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...)

So am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks!

[MikeS]

Hmmm, I just noticed that it does the same thing on a title that I uploaded a cover image for.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

Sorry, I don't have an answer.

[rivka, Librarian Moderator]

Since the large images all come from Amazon (IIRC), uploaded-by-GoodReaders images lack them.

[Paul]

Thanks rivka, that will be it. On the subject of covers, how strict is Goodreads that the cover displayed should be the actual cover of the edition shown?

[rivka, Librarian Moderator]

Why would you want to upload a cover that doesn't match the edition? Wouldn't it make more sense to upload it to the edition it actually matches, and shift your review to that edition?

[Otis, Chief Architect]

Hey all,

There was a slight bug for the case where the image is from a user and an Amazon cover doesn't exist - sorry about that. We'll have it fixed in the next release!

And yes, please keep the covers to ones that match the actual edition.

[Paul]

Here's an example of a cover which does not match the edition

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

the main edition listed is the Bantam paperback, which strangely was not illustrated. I scanned & uploaded my copu, which is a Corgi. But you can't see that it is from the tiny thumbnail. None of the other associated versions of Machineries of joy was a Corgi. So... does it matter in this case?

[rivka, Librarian Moderator]

So yours is this one? Why not just upload your cover for that edition?

Or is it an ISBN that's not listed at all?

I'm guessing that it's not as big a deal for older editions, where getting the real cover may be very difficult.

[Paul]

Nope, that one says "Corgi Childrens" which is different from the beautiful old Corgi paperback I have. I perhaps should have said that this cover/edition mismatch only happens on old and out of print books, so maybe - maybe - it doesn't matter in those cases.

[Paul]

Often the paperbacks I'm finding sans thumbnail are pre-barcode and pre-ISBN.