Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Something weird is going on with this book page. I've had it in my shelves for years, and just went to add another read date and edit review, and it's saying that it no longer meets the requirement of a book?

I assume it's have issues because the title is so short and just numbers?... but then, I know some other number-only books exist, like 1984

I don't know if this is other librarians trying to fix the issue, but 3 other results also pop up, when you do a search for this book, with random dates and/or unknown authors listed:

14 by Peter Clines
14 by Peter Clines
14 by Clines, Peter

I don't know if I'm just using the wrong book page... I tried going to a different edition page, and everything seemed fine until my review wouldn't save, and then I went back, and the banner had appeared again which wasn't there the first time.

When I go to the editions page, I can't seem to find one with more than 1000 ratings, for a book with 36k total ratings...

Any help appreciated.

EDIT: with all those book links, earlier, I'm not 100% sure I sent one that will pop the banner near the top about guidelines... here's the exact link I used, before trying one or two of the other 36 linked edition: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sho...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Something weird is going on with this book page. I've had it in my shelves for years, and just went to add another read date and edit review, and it's saying that it no longer meets the requirement..."

I've set the edition back to Public status, so your edition should return to normal shortly. The cause is a fairly recent bug, setting editions to invalid status randomly.


Timelord Iain wrote: "... 3 other results also pop up, when you do a search for this book, with random dates and/or unknown authors listed"

Recently the automatic imports from Amazon were changed to also include second hand sales of books. What we volunteers in this group can do is to set these records to Invalid (manually one by one) which will prevent them from showing up author pages and in Goodreads Search, but we have no means to stop the flood. I've set the three you linked to, to status Invalid.

Thank you for the fix and info. i’d heard about some of the auto-import shenanigans somewhere else, in the past few months