1bnsmith
So I have finally got around to adding all my Doc Savage paperbacks.
Having some issues
Although this book seems to exist, I cannot add it
https://www.librarything.com/work/201028, popup claims no such book
In addition I have #93 but not showing up on generated author series list
#20 not showing up on list at all (goes from 19 to 21). at least my view does
Any suggestions or hints?
Having some issues
Although this book seems to exist, I cannot add it
https://www.librarything.com/work/201028, popup claims no such book
In addition I have #93 but not showing up on generated author series list
#20 not showing up on list at all (goes from 19 to 21). at least my view does
Any suggestions or hints?
2MarthaJeanne
If the sources don't have a book, you can enter it manually. The link fir that is below the left hand side of the add books page.
93 shows up at the top of https://www.librarything.com/nseries/2092/Doc-Savage You can add 20 to the series.
Both are there in https://www.librarything.com/nseries/3142/Doc-Savage-Original-Publication-Order
Is there a reason for the duplicate series?)
93 shows up at the top of https://www.librarything.com/nseries/2092/Doc-Savage You can add 20 to the series.
Both are there in https://www.librarything.com/nseries/3142/Doc-Savage-Original-Publication-Order
Is there a reason for the duplicate series?)
3AnnieMod
Also keep in mind that even when you are pressing the Add button from the work page, it does not add it from inside of LT - it always goes to sources and LT is never a source.
4kristilabrie
Looking at your issues:
1. The Quick Add (+ Add button) should say, "Could not find any results. Go to the Add Books page." with a link to search directly on https://www.librarything.com/addbooks . If you search Amazon.com all media's data source, you should be able to find the work you need.
2. Series issues - I'm guessing you're looking at https://www.librarything.com/nseries/2092/Doc-Savage, is that right?
#93: I see #93 at the top of that page - you can use the "Add to/Organize Series" button in the "Edit Series" toolbox on the right to reorder as needed.
#20: It looks like you'll have to add the series to #20, if the work has been cataloged on LibraryThing at all. Do you have #20 cataloged, or can you find it on LibraryThing (by using the top-right site search)? There's a page in the Help Wiki that goes over Series on LT and how to add series to a work page: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/HelpThing:Nseries_controller, along with another Help page for best practices working with Series data: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/New_Series_-_best_practices
I hope this helps! Closing this bug report because I'm not seeing any bugs present, but let me know if I'm missing something.
1. The Quick Add (+ Add button) should say, "Could not find any results. Go to the Add Books page." with a link to search directly on https://www.librarything.com/addbooks . If you search Amazon.com all media's data source, you should be able to find the work you need.
2. Series issues - I'm guessing you're looking at https://www.librarything.com/nseries/2092/Doc-Savage, is that right?
#93: I see #93 at the top of that page - you can use the "Add to/Organize Series" button in the "Edit Series" toolbox on the right to reorder as needed.
#20: It looks like you'll have to add the series to #20, if the work has been cataloged on LibraryThing at all. Do you have #20 cataloged, or can you find it on LibraryThing (by using the top-right site search)? There's a page in the Help Wiki that goes over Series on LT and how to add series to a work page: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/HelpThing:Nseries_controller, along with another Help page for best practices working with Series data: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/New_Series_-_best_practices
I hope this helps! Closing this bug report because I'm not seeing any bugs present, but let me know if I'm missing something.
5lilithcat
>1 bnsmith:
Looks like most people who have that work used amazon.com as their source. You can use that, or add it manually.
Looks like most people who have that work used amazon.com as their source. You can use that, or add it manually.
6bnsmith
>4 kristilabrie: kristilabrie
Looking at adding #20 to list docsavage list
https://www.librarything.com/work/201678 claims to be 20, is that what drives it?
I did try adding, the choice is given, but cannot select it (not a link)
Brian
Looking at adding #20 to list docsavage list
https://www.librarything.com/work/201678 claims to be 20, is that what drives it?
I did try adding, the choice is given, but cannot select it (not a link)
Brian
7gilroy
>6 bnsmith: Um, looking at the series, that book is already listed as part of the series. It's just hidden between #58 and #59.
So it needs moved up the list. But may also be why you can't add it to the series. It exists there already.
So it needs moved up the list. But may also be why you can't add it to the series. It exists there already.
8bnsmith
>7 gilroy: Ahhh
Apologies, I did think if that and did look using Fireffox search, which didn't pick up on it.
Apologies, I did think if that and did look using Fireffox search, which didn't pick up on it.
9Nevov
I tried sorting the series automatic by number, but that throws it all out (I think because of the mixture of numerical and alphabetical labels) so I set it back to Custom sort, and can see another helper has set #20 into its right position manually now.
>Although this book seems to exist, I cannot add it
This seems such a common happening (until users twig on to how the site operates). I wonder could a work page tally and collate what sources have been used, and display/present the info somewhere in the left hand links? (Work details? Members?) If a complete full live breakdown for popular works would be ridiculously long and slow, maybe just a heavily cached top 10 sources for the work – something along these lines would give users a starting point to target specific sources if wanting to add a copy, or see that it's fully made of manual entries, etc. And then this data could feed into the "cannot add" message, suggesting one or more sources to try (or manual entry).
>Although this book seems to exist, I cannot add it
This seems such a common happening (until users twig on to how the site operates). I wonder could a work page tally and collate what sources have been used, and display/present the info somewhere in the left hand links? (Work details? Members?) If a complete full live breakdown for popular works would be ridiculously long and slow, maybe just a heavily cached top 10 sources for the work – something along these lines would give users a starting point to target specific sources if wanting to add a copy, or see that it's fully made of manual entries, etc. And then this data could feed into the "cannot add" message, suggesting one or more sources to try (or manual entry).
10bnsmith
>9 Nevov: Yesm I corrected the two or three errors. It was still doing something weird in the Amazon lookup but I managed in the end. I noticed the Author name was messed up (an inserted hyphen?) once I deleted that it seemed to work
11kristilabrie
>7 gilroy: Sneaky! I missed that, thanks. The custom sorting and number of volumes there was too much for my eyes.
