Not a Book policy

[Lobstergirl]

I'm curious what the preferred policy is here. A user has shelved something that needs to be Nabbed; let's say, the "counter display" of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Is it better to combine it with the other editions, and delete, thus transferring the user's edition to another edition, or to NAB the edition and make sure it's properly separated? In the first case the user has the proper book on their shelf, but that ISBN can always be reimported unless it has been designed by GR to be filtered out. In the second case the ISBN won't be reimported, but the user will have a NAB on their shelves.

[Paula]

Option one is the one we have used normally, although previously we would do a merge, then auto import using ISBN search from Amazon then NAB.

Now the amazon import is gone, you would have to manually recreate the book and then NAB.

Or merge, then just leave and wait for it to re import and then hope to catch it before some one shelves it again.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

I would say the first option is always preferred, but not always practical. For example, when merging an "author" with a dozen items into the NOT A BOOK author.