Deleting duplicate books

[M.]

I couldn't find a folder for deleting books. I'm trying to clean up my book listings -- there were a lot of duplicates. How do I remove duplicate listings?

[Amara]

Are you referring to duplicates on your shelves or on the site in general?

[M.]

Books I've published. There are two Kindle editions of Iron Men (Pirates of the Narrow Seas #3).

[Paula]

And as I explained in the GR Author Feedback group

"There is one kindle book with two different covers and we do not delete a book once published if the cover changes unless the book was never published with a particular cover"

I see you have since deleted the alternate cover and uploaded the same one as the other edition.

If the kindle edition was never published withe black and white cover then fine.

BUT if it was then it needs to be changed back as reviewers what the copy of the book they bought on their shelves.

[M.]

The Kindle edition was only published with the Bristlecone Pine Press cover (orange borders). Only the first edition of the paperback was published with the brown cover. Whoever uploaded the duplicate listing in the first place mixed and matched elements from several editions. Since you said what you did about the covers, I changed them, but I would have just deleted the erroneous listing if I had been able to.

[W.H.]

Needs to be deleted
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
blished yet!
This one is to be kept per Rue Volley
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

Thank you! It has not been published yet.

[Rick]

Some how I accidently created this book twice. I tried to delete the copy that is attached to the incorrect author but was unable to do so. This is the one that needs to be deleted: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

This is the one to be kept:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

Thank you and sorry for the trouble.

[Tntexas]

Rick wrote: "Some how I accidently created this book twice. I tried to delete the copy that is attached to the incorrect author but was unable to do so. This is the one that needs to be deleted: http://www.good..."

Ummmmm .... I don't see a difference between the two? Both are attributed to a Jim Beard.

[lafon حمزة]

Fixed 7, 6.
Re 7: Do you know if this Jim Beard wrote anything else?

[W.H.]

Thank you! Have a great day!

[Richard]

I was creating a new book. When I went back to try to edit the title field I accidentally created a duplicate. The difference between the 2 copies is that one has a semicolon in the title, whereas the other one has a colon. The one with the colon is the one that should be deleted. Thank you.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...

[Periklis]

Fixed 11.

[Richard]

Periklis wrote: "Fixed 11."

Thank you Periklis!

[Confiteor]

Can someone please help delete/merge a duplicate page for one of our books? This new page already has a review, so that review should be moved to the original page.

Here is the original page (the one to be kept):
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

Here is the duplicate page that should be deleted/merged with the original:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

Thank you.

[Paula]

Got 14

[Sylvie]

I've been cleaning up Camilla Läckberg's books and found a duplicate edition only a super can delete.

This book (the duplicate to be merged with the original):
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

seems to have had part of its ISBN 13 entered as the ISBN 10 and is a duplicate of this edition (the original to be kept):

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85...

I have already separated them from the other Stenhuggaren/Stonecutter books (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...) but they should be recombined after merging.

Note: The default edition for this book is the original Swedish edition, but the description is in Italian. I wasn't sure what to do with that. The publisher's site does have a Swedish description, but it seems as if the default editions for the first two books in the series are the English editions, so I wasn't sure what to do.

[vicki_girl]

Merged and recombined books.

For the description, I would copy the Swedish description into the description field for the Swedish edition. Then I would find one of the English editions. Add an English description if needed. Then I would make that the default description. I believe the rule is that English descriptions should be the default, unless the book was never published in English.

[Sylvie]

vicki_girl wrote: "Merged and recombined books.

For the description, I would copy the Swedish description into the description field for the Swedish edition. Then I would find one of the English editions. Add an E..."

Thanks! Läckberg's a bit complicated because her books are appearing in the UK/US at different rates, with the 3rd just coming out in the US now, and I believe the 5th in the UK. Thanks for the guidelines going forward.

[Krista]

I accidentally created the same book twice. This one should be deleted:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

And this one should be kept:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

Sorry for the trouble. Thank you!

[Amara]

Done!

If this is your book, you can apply to claim your author profile here.

Also, it would be much appreciated if you could supply us with the ASIN so we can add that detail to the record. :)

[Trish]

I accidentally added my new book twice. This is the keeper:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

This should be deleted:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

They are not different editions, they are the same book.

[Amara]

Merged.

[Trish]

Thank you so much!

[[deleted user]]

I found a duplicate of a book. It seems that ISBN13 (without 3 last numbers) was added as ISBN10. Can you fix it, please?

Duplicate:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

Good edition:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...

[Beth]

#24 Done.

[[deleted user]]

thank you :)

[Ebru]

I accidentally created the same book twice. This one should be deleted:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

And this one should be kept:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Sorry for the trouble. :)

[Emong (emilio)]

I deleted it.

[Ebru]

Thank you. :)

[Lawrence]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

I've accidentally created multiple duplicates of my book. Please keep the above book (link) and delete all others. Thank you. Larry Schwimmer, Goodreads author.

[Catalina]

30: Deleted the duplicates and linked it to your GR profile
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

[Laken]

I went to add a different edition and wound up creating a duplicate but am unable to delete it.

This is the original:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

This is the one I accidentally duplicated trying to create a new edition:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Sorry about that

[Laura]

#32 done.

[ValeReads]

Duplicate to be deleted: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

(Correct page is here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...)

Thanks!

[Koenraad]

Got 34

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It gets confusing when a thread linked to a specific book or author is also used for other books. I am closing this thread. Start new ones for other books.