Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

GoodReads: the visible and the invisible



The visible:


- Casual users - who are allowed to create through groups, reviews, comments, tagging, recommendations, adding books and etc.

- Librarians - who are allowed to create, and appropriate through combining and editing. (appropriating mostly in the broader sense of the term, rather than the possible possessive denotation)

- Superlibrarians - who are allowed to create, and appropriate, and destroy.


Probably a lot of you, guys, from the goodreads librarians group already know how frustrating is when you try to get all your books with the exact info to goodreads but there is something fucked up with isbn and/or isbn13, also familiar with getting upset when you just manually added a book and noticed there was a little gramatic error in the authors name but found impossible to correct it without coming here and asking for some good soul to rectify it. Maybe I'm being too perfeccionist but that was my overall experience as an ambitious cataloger and a casual user.
Today I was so busy I haven't not even sneakpeeked a single page from 5 books that just arrived from amazon, but somehow I managed to maximize my pleasure and minimize my frustration: I exercized my new received librarian powers.
Guess I will be giving the hell of a welcoming party to those 5 new books tonight and to the rest of the week, month? Till the day they will all be cataloged as read, baby-steps to the epic superlibrarian. (lol as I make of it a real time strategy game)
The inicial idea for all this "I'm wasting your time" was if...


The invisible:

- They are legion - programmers, designers, managers, employees.


So my questions are: is goodreads non-profitable like wikipedia? where are the donate section?! or is goodreads profitable like google? with advertises and popularity schemes?!
And: I'm sorry if here wasn't the right place to make this "scene".

Filipe wrote: "So my questions are: is goodreads non-profitable like wikipedia? where are the donate section?! or is goodreads profitable like google? "

Goodreads is a for profit company. There is no current way to donate, although people have asked before.