Reading list: Halloween Book Bingo - Chilling Children

Added, thanks!

Added. :)

Thank you! :)

Got 'em! :)

It's a good choice. :)

Added!

Added - although I could only find one edition with the generic cover. :[

Thank you! I don't mind the cover, but if you do want to use one with a nicer cover, I'd suggest ISBN 9783522144100.

I hate those generic covers - so I updated to your edition. Much better now. :)

Good! And it does look nicer now of course. Just didn't want you to feel like you *had* to go back and redo it -- the database is what it is, and by God, you've done enough on these lists as it is already ...

I'm going to figure out how this database works one of these days. It generally displays the main edition of any tied together titles, and if they aren't tied together it becomes a crap shoot, but And Then There Were None seems to be proving me wrong... so there's something else going on as well. :P

Yes, also "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" -- can't seem to get that CreateSpace edition off the "top dog" position appearing first in every search of late, however many times I combine it with some other edition people would more readily recognize ... (which is what, heretofore, has always worked in defining "main book"). Sigh.

I'm wondering if they aren't indexing the database as often... but still I'd have thought changes we made say, last week, would have been indexed by now. Grr...

That sort of change used to show instantly -- on the book pages themselves at the very least, even if nowhere else, and you'd typically also get the new "main book" instantly as your default search result. Sigh. Anyway, you're not the only one who's been wondering what's going on lately ... again.

Oh, I've been generally happy lately - I think, based on hints I see here and there, that work is being done but I think it's more infrastructure stuff, if you catch my meaning. At least I hope so. The complete lack of author tools is starting to wear on me though - I think a lot of the search mess is because of duplicate author records or bad imports creating weird author records. Kate is super responsive when I ask her to merge those names where there are too many, but it's still frustrating not being able to do it myself when I find them, and in an efficient, speedy way.

Now that I'm all caught up with the lists for today, I might play around with A.C.'s books and see if I can figure out why those two are being such a pain in the ass in search.

I hear you on the author records ... and I've seen the back and forth in the librarian thread -- "please merge all author XYZ records into no. 123" / "done" / "please merge all author ABC records into no. 456" / "done" -- etc.

And, yey, at least searching by author AND book name seems to bring up the desired editions now!

Yes, if fact I'm reading the second one for this square. And I thought I'd added it...but on searching, I did not. Adding the first one now.

Excellent - I am seriously considering that one for this square.

Added!

HA! Stumped me for a second too, because I copied that definition from MR's post. But it means "Middle Grade".

:)

Ah...thanks! So not an abbreviation I'm used to! I was like, "main...something?", "mainstream...something?" lol....

That was me too, when I was reading your comment... lol. I was completely getting ready to respond with a "what's MG - what are you talking about?" when I thought to do a quick 'find' on the page for MG and saw exactly what you were referring to. Then it clicked. :)

I'm just trying to keep you on your toes?

;-)

Ah, thanks. It got to the point where I could no longer remember which titles were on which lists, so there was a bit of blind adding going on. I'll remove it now. :)

I just noticed because there are so few books from this list on my shelves.