Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

There is something strange going on with the Kindle edition rescues. I added a new edition in some cases, confirming the title and author on the publishers or authors website, since I didn't own the book. When I combine it, the Kindle edition no longer shows as being at risk. I saw this happen a couple of times, and so I thought the Kindle edition had been "rescued" by someone else while I was creating my new edition. I then deleted my placeholder, since I thought the book was safe. When I did that the Kindle edition showed as at risk again.

Therefore, I asking all librarians to leave these types of placeholders (mine or those created by others) until after the purge. I put notes on the ones I "rescued" this way so that other librarians won't put the Kindle editions back at risk by accident.

I just realized though that I should probably let people know about this behavior with the Kindle editions.

Case study:
If you look at the librarian log of this book, you can see that it still needs to be rescued, only the rescue link isn't available for this.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/edits/8...

I freelance at this publisher, and have all Kindle data for these books, but I can't rescue them.

Well, if you have the data to rescue it go ahead and delete my placeholder and do the rescue. I was just trying to prevent things from going 'poof' tonight.

My thinking was that a well-meaning librarian would delete it, thinking it was a duplicate (which technically it is) and the Kindle edition was safe, when it's not. I was just trying to prevent that scenario.

Please feel free to delete my placeholders, if it's preventing the rescue. :)

Yeah but isn't the fact that they aren't available for rescue even if they should be a bug?

Oh, definitely. I'm just saying, if you want to go ahead and rescue the book do so.

Here's another example of one, from another publisher, for discussion purposes:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

I will cross-post to the Feedback group.

Well, it looks like this is a moot point now that the Amazon purge is complete.

However, it does appear that my placeholders served their purpose; the books weren't lost from people's shelves (as far as I can tell). In addition, the title and author from my placeholders appear to have been copied over to the Kindle book, probably some sort of script run by GR to reduce the number of unknowns by using the data from combined editions.

I guess from this point on, these duplicates can be deleted now. I'll get the ones I can from my edit log, but if others run across them, they can merge them into the other edition.

I have a Kindle. This is something I'm happy to know.