Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

49 views
Looking for a Project? > {OPEN} Books with bad descriptions

Comments Showing 1-7 of 7 (7 new)    post a comment »
dateUp arrow    newest »

message 1: by Werefox by moonlight: (last edited Jul 16, 2023 12:02PM) (new)
Jul 16, 2023 11:56AM

Werefox by moonlight: Half man, half beast, but all horror | 81 comments I've noticed that, as of late, there seems to be an uptick in books with incoherent descriptions that seem to have been imported from some bookseller's catalogue or the like; stuff like 'rare book' or 'book by (author name)' or 'good condition.' I thought it might be useful to have a centralized place to put books with this sort of garbage description so that librarians can fix them. I should note that in most cases I don't have the actual cover text, as these are mainly just random books I've found browsing the site (although in many cases it would appear that the books used to have perfectly fine descriptions that were overwritten by a bot, so check the edit history on each book), but I figure an empty field is better than "excellent book" or some similar nonsense.

For my first batch:

The Redeemer

Voodoo - The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult Volume (19) Nineteen

Willow Grove

Cassia Great House

The Third Ear

The Empty Grave

The Nameless Ones

The Secret Citadel

Odd's End

From the Archives of Evil

The Fifth Ghost Book


back to top

220

Goodreads Librarians Group

Group Home Bookshelf Discussions
Photos Videos
Send invite Members Polls
unread topics | mark unread


Books mentioned in this topic

The Seventh Ghost Book (other topics)
Midnight Grinding and Other Twilight Terrors (other topics)
Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James (other topics)
The Heyday of Spiritualism (other topics)
Discoveries in Fantasy (other topics)
More...