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So...I've done all that is required to add the Goodreads Ap to my FB page, but when I get to the final phase & click "Setup your Goodreads tab," it sends me to a Goodreads page where I'm told "Invalid request."

Anyone know how to fix or what I need to do differently? Much thanks!
J Lowder

J.E., I'm having the same problem - everything works fine until the last step. Then, when I click on "Setup your Goodreads tab", it sends me to my Goodreads home page. (It doesn't say "Invalid request", just seems to be my normal Goodreads landing page.)

I wonder if it's a temporary Facebook issue?

Neve:
Sorry to hear you're having the same issue, but my IT guy wondered the same thing, especially since FB recently changed a bunch of stuff.

Neve:
FYI: just checked FB "issue" page but didn't see anything. Just sent Goodreads a "bug" report. Hope to hear something sooner than later.>

J.E. wrote: Sorry to hear you're having the same issue, but my IT guy wondered the same thing, especially since FB recently changed a bunch of stuff.

Looking more and more like a Facebook issue, I tried creating a custom welcome tab for my fanpage (via TabPress), had no success either. I'm giving up for the day. I wonder if we'll have to wait till Monday for this to be resolved.

Yeah, this is a bug. Sorry for the inconvenience. One of our developers is working on this. Thanks for reporting it.

Patrick wrote: "Yeah, this is a bug. Sorry for the inconvenience. One of our developers is working on this. Thanks for reporting it."
OK. Please let us know when it's fixed.
JL

Patrick wrote: One of our developers is working on this.

Good to know. Thanks, Patrick!

This is a question about adding the Goodreads review widget to a website - we're finding it only works for old ISBN numbers and not for ISBN 13 numbers at all. Anyone else have this problem? Can it be fixed?

thanks

What's the difference twixt 'old' ISBN numbers (and how old is 'old') and ISBN 13 ones? And how does one tell which is which from looking in/at a book? I have a book in front of me which came out a month ago. Its ISBN is shown in the form of a bar code on the back dustjacket. Is the presence of the bar code the clue? There is no other indication of the ISBN number's 'age', nor its '13-ness'.

Ahem. Charles - its '13ness' consists in having 13 numbers.

The old ISBN is 10 numbers long. So you can tell the difference by counting. Your month old book should have 13. Don't know when they were changed - a few years ago. The numbers were added because the number of books in the world now demands a longer ISBN.

The ISBN is generally also on the inside page with other publishing details. The bar code is irrelevant. Just count the numbers.

cheers.

Many thanks, tho' I suspect your 'Ahem' is your tactful way of saying what an idiot I am. OK, so I am. Isn't that what this discussion forum's all about? Lifting idiots up into the realms of knowledge?

Anyway, the 13-digit ISBNs are, one hopes, taken care of in Goodreads'/GoodReads' automatic pop-up of 'current' books. The old ISBN books are the ones one has to add 'manually'. Would that be right? Why you can't affix the 'G' icon to modern ISBNs is a mystery. And what's the significance of the different sizes of 'G' icons? The degree of one's enthusiasm for the book in question? I've noticed the info given on the Goodr/Reads website is often cryptic. Just as often it is insufficient. Hey there, Gooders, please be more lucid.

Well, unfortunately the widget doesn't seem to work for the 13 number ISBNs so it would be good if a developer could tell us if they're going to fix it...

Which ISBN13 isn't working?

Charles wrote: "Why you can't affix the 'G' icon to modern ISBNs is a mystery. And what's the significance of the different sizes of 'G' icons? The degree of one's enthusiasm for the book in question? I've noticed the info given on the Goodr/Reads website is often cryptic. Just as often it is insufficient. Hey there, Gooders, please be more lucid."

Claire is actually talking about the reviews widget, which you can see here: http://www.goodreads.com/api/reviews_...

The "G" icon can link to whatever you please -- your book, your author page, etc. The various sizes are just to give people different design options. We don't want people to have to mess around with resizing the icon if they don't want to.

thanks Patrick. Do you know whether this review widget can be made to work?

THe copy/paste code for the widget we were giving out didn't contain the isbn13.... I've patched that, so after the next site release (1-2 days) you should be able to recreate a corrected widget.

Thanks Michael.