Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Is there a way to delete the cover of a book without replacing it?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/edit/54... clearly has the wrong cover. I'd like to at least take off the wrong cover, even if I don't have the energy to go find the right one. (Title probably needs correcting, etc., and I just want to take the small step of getting the wrong cover off.)

Heather, It looks as though the cover is correct but the title is truncated. According to Amazon, it does start out with Beethoven.

Sorry, I suppose by "clearly" I meant "clearly to people who are familiar with Thomas and Finney", which would not be at all clear to people who didn't use any of their calculus textbooks, which would be most of the world. ("I know what I mean, why don't you know what I mean?")

The cover is for a Beethoven string quartet. The book, based on three of the author names, is a calculus book.

Well, yes. You can remove a cover if you're sure it's incorrect. Make sure the book is the one you know. You don't have to add another cover if you don't have access to the correct one.

Lisa wrote: "You can remove a cover if you're sure it's incorrect. Make sure the book is the one you know."

Not when it's coming from Amazon you can't.

Ah. So, what do we do? We can change to the correct cover if we find it, correct? What about adding one of our generic covers?

What you can do is contact Amazon and tell them their cover is wrong. I've done it in the past. I sent in a request to correct it and it shouldn't take more than a day or so.

Yes, yes, and yes. ;)

Thanks Shannon and Rivka. I'll keep that in mind.

I've been searching but I can't find the thread - but This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For showed us a way to create generic cover images - which you could substitute for the erroneous Amazon cover. If I could find the thread that showed us how to do it ....

Melody wrote: "I've been searching but I can't find the thread - but This Is Not The Michael You're Looking For showed us a way to create generic cover images - which you could substitute for the erroneous Amazon..."

I believe Rivka put a link to the generic cover program in the first thread: Useful Links for Librarians.

Yes - it's there. So Heather - you could create a generic cover and upload it to replace the wrong cover. Thanks Carolyn.

Rivka posted a zip file at http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Try this to create a generic book cover.