Goodreads Changes

[brokenmnemonic]

So, Goodreads is making some changes, and my deep and insightful opinion of them so far is that a number of them are annoying me a lot.

Having just finished a book I actually wanted to rec to a few people, I discovered that while the field to let me flag up who recommended it to me auto-fills based on what I type, the field for recomemnding it to other people doesn't, because... sod you, I guess.

Apparently, recording where I bought a book/comic from and when is an unpopular feature, so I'm no longer able to do that, which is really annoying given that I like to actually track where I bought things in case I want to go back there and buy more things.

Also, because apparently too many people are creating new book entries and new editions with not enough detail in them, only librarians can now create new editions and new book entries. So, if you want to add a new edition of an existing thing or add a new thing, you have to post in the Librarians group and hope someone comes along and does it for you. Given that the three posts I made requesting those sorts of things a week ago haven't been actioned, I'm guessing that's not going well. This really bugs me, because I often find that the audiobooks I can borrow from the library (most of which are produced by part of Bolinda) aren't on goodreads, and my brain itches if I record books against the wrong edition. It's also annoying me because there are series of books pushed out by companies like Catalyst Game Labs as ebook-only that expand on their game lines that don't get consistently added to Goodreads. I use Goodreads to, amongst other things, track what I've bought and in which format for a lot of these game lines, particularly when I'm doing things like buying bundles from Bundle of Holding, and perhaps I'm being overly grumpy tonight, but it feels like I'm either going to have to stop doing that, or try and become a librarian so that I can keep on doing it myself.

Any way, now that I've ranted, Amari and the Night Brothers us a fun MG/YA read that's... sort of like Men In Black, but where the protagonist is a 13-year-old girl who ends up in training to join a supernatural ministry because her brother's disappeared. The magic system is interesting and I want a lot of the rich to get eaten by monsters.

Comments

[colls]

Oh... the edition thing used to bug me until I learned to let go of it (it was hard, but ultimately necessary because of library apps here, too).
You may not want to check the edition on my goodreads against what I tag these days. I grab the first version that pops up and then tag it 'audiobook' - so they rarely match.

[brokenmnemonic]

I think what annoys me with this particular library audiobook is that the edition is already on GR, but it's missing the ISBN - so my post on that was just asking for the ISBN to be added, to make it easier to find when searching. That's not been done either. *grumps*

I'm probably going to have to let go of it too, if I can, but it annoys me. It's worse for a friend of mine - she's been adding lots of German-language editions of books to goodreads, as well as adding German RPG books for things like the Dark Eye RPG to Goodreads (an RPG series I think is bigger than D&D in Germany, and which has been going for more than 30 years) and she's not getting any responses either. While it's annoying to not find the edition you want, it's definitely more annoying to find that the book doesn't exist on GR at all.

[colls]

oh... yeah. That would be worse. :/

[jb_slasher]

I'm a GR librarian so if you don't want to become one yourself, just DM me on Discord with what you need done and I'll get on it when I have time?

[brokenmnemonic]

Thank you! That would be marvellous :D Although you must tell me if I'm being too demanding.

[jb_slasher]

No worries! If I have additional questions, I'll just ask, and if I fail to enter some info you want/need, let me know and I'll fix it if I can.

[yourlibrarian]

Apparently, recording where I bought a book/comic from and when is an unpopular feature

Likely because Amazon wants you to buy everything from them and thus this info is elsewhere.

I'm guessing the editions are being matched up to Library of Congress records but that process certainly seems like it will dam up a lot of entries.

[brokenmnemonic]

I'm sure you're right - I did some reading when I first started using goodreads to see if adding comics was allowed (I have a fair-sized comics collection, and am prone to occasionally buying copies of things I've already read by mistake) and there seemed to be a huge bunfight going on about whether comics should be there at all. The endpoint seemed to be when Amazon took over GR, at which point anything sold on Amazon became eligible to be on Goodreads, and I've noticed that often the only version of a comic listed is the Kindle version.

[goodbyebird]

Aww you were in active posting mode when I was Too Tired for internet?? Noooooooooooo

I became a librarian way back because I wanted to add the Buffy comics as I read them, and was annoyed not to find any. I don't believe there are much in ways of requirements? I think you just have to have been active in adding/rating books? So shouldn't be an issue for you lol

I'd offer to add books, but it's a complete pain when I'm not on my laptop.