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Harlequin Books (harlequinbooks) | 70 comments I've been noticing an issue with many books this month. When I added my January books to my bookshelves, I had to correct the primary language associated with the book. I would say I had to correct 75-85% of my books. Today I started entering some of our Febraury titles and discovered the issues is still there. I understand that the book info has come from an outside source like B&N or Amazon but I don't understnad why the language is wrong from these sources.

For example, today I added Entre las sábanas del Italiano, one of our Spanish releases for February but the primary language is listed as Turkish.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98...

I didn't correct the language to Spanish so that I could use it as an example. When I entered my Janruary books, I mentioned correcting the language in the field that is required when you make changes to book details but maybe I didn't make it clear that it was happening quite often. Is there a way to fix this issue? Is it a bug? I don't mind fixing my titles but I'm afraid of missing editions that should be corrected. :)


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I'm no expert in this (yet) but since this is a rather obvious bug, the message should go to the feedback group.

About the actual issue, I think it's irritating. I've had to do quite a bit of that too with the Finnish books when I've been lucky enough to find something to that was imported from one of these sites.


message 3: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
Riikka wrote: "I'm no expert in this (yet) but since this is a rather obvious bug, the message should go to the feedback group."

In fact, there already is a thread there.


Harlequin Books (harlequinbooks) | 70 comments Ok, thank you.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (susannag) | 68 comments Is there a case of this problem with http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10... ? Or does Random House publish in Romanian?


message 6: by rivka, Former Moderator (new)

rivka | 45177 comments Mod
That's definitely an English book.


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