Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Today I manually added a new book to GR, and I noticed that the info wouldn't go through unless I filled in the fields for width, height, length of the book, as well as the book's weight.

A red alert popped up at the top of the page and the relevant fields were outlined in bold red. After panicking for a few seconds, I eventually I punched in estimated values for the information (since I am in Greece & using metric, while the GR system is in imperial).

Later on I wanted to edit the title/author info of a couple of existing books on GR, and again I noticed that the edits wouldn't go through the system unless I added values for the dimension & weight of the books!

I'm puzzled by this...

TIA,
Olga

This is the text of the alert that pops up at the top of the page:

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4 errors prohibited this book from being saved

There were problems with the following fields:
• Weight pounds must be more than 0
• Height inches must be more than 0
• Width inches must be more than 0
• Length inches must be more than 0
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This shows up even when I tested the following: I click on "edit", and then -without attempting any changes at all- clicking "save".

This is strange but I'm having the same problem. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.

I got this also. It's being discussed in the feedback group now. Here's the link.

Thanks for the info Kathrynn!

You're welcome. :-)

Thanks for the feedback! Good to know I'm not the only one with the problem.

Should be fixed now, sorry about that.

Thanks, Michael! It's working properly for me. :)

Thanks Michael!

Thanks. I would have problems with adding dimensions and weight, cause in Poland grams, kilograms, centimetres and metres. Changing that would take loads of time.

Anna wrote: "Thanks. I would have problems with adding dimensions and weight, cause in Poland grams, kilograms, centimetres and metres. Changing that would take loads of time. "

Same thing in Finland.

Eventually we'll let people choose metric.

Great idea.

Well, other question is - do we really needed these data here? I get the point of exsistence on websites like Bookmooch, where you send books around, but here? If yes - not obligatory, please, can't imagine myself o getting info about each book :S

The reason for the data will become clear in time.

MuHAHAHAHAHA

Hopefully it will not be obligatory. Or I'll have some problems with adding books then - maybe other data will be not so though too check, but weight can be a problem. Well, let's see...

We pull this data from amazon on all new books, and it's not required for adding books ever, there was a slipup last week that made it required on accident.

Michael - most of the books in Polish as far as I know are not on amazon ;) As well as many other books :D

Yes, I'm happy it's not required now and I hope it'll stay like that forever ;) Especially that right now the data is in the metric system which is not used here. Which means calculating even more ;)

After importing those Polish books avaiable on Amazon there are loads of mistakes (but correcting is a work for librians).