Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Amazon frequently adds items with ISBNs that aren't actually books. So the librarians put NOT A BOOK in there to discourage members from adding and rating those items.

Just a thought...maybe someone should put some info about the NOT A BOOK thing in the "author" profile so if anyone checks it out, they will understand what the NOT A BOOK labeling is about.

Isis, there was some. It looks like some of the author merges may have accidentally deleted it.

Recreating it now.

That's actually rather odd. Why would the author merges have overwritten it? Looking at the edit log, that is what appears to have happened, but it shouldn't overwrite an existing record with the one being merged in, should it?

Not unless someone accidentally did it in the other direction for some reason?

Because they will be recreated from the Amazon database the next time someone does a relevant search.