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message 1: by lethe (last edited Jan 14, 2021 01:20AM) (new)

lethe Removed Fateful Destiny: An Epic Struggle to Change the Course of American History (debut author spamming numerous lists through sockpuppets/alter egos).


message 2: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis The computer found and merged 4 duplicates.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Heidi wrote: "Fish out of water : a search for the meaning of life
by Eric Metaxas was published in 2021.

The system will not allow me to add it."


Probably because the audio CD was published on September 3rd 2019 ?


message 4: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis The system found and removed 1 duplicate.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Heidi wrote: "There is something seriously wrong
with this list that it is rejecting so
many books that were published in the
2020s."


Might be that the original publication date is not filled in?


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Heidi wrote: "It is within your power to fix it.
So do that. Otherwise don't talk
to me .

You are lucky I don't say far more
to you."


I don't 'fix' books I haven't read...


message 7: by tima (new)

tima Heidi wrote: "There is something seriously wrong
with this list that it is rejecting so
many books that were published in the
2020s."


Heidi wrote: "It is within your power to fix it.
So do that. Otherwise don't talk
to me. You are lucky I don't say far more
to you."

girl calm down, you don't have to go attacking ppl like that. damn.


message 8: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis The system found and removed 1 duplicate.


message 9: by Q. (new)

Q. I'm trying to add The Civil War on Film
by Peg A Lamphier, Rosanne Welch but the list won't allow it even though the book was published in 2020.


message 10: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis Q. wrote: "I'm trying to add The Civil War on Film
by Peg A Lamphier, Rosanne Welch but the list won't allow it even though the book was published in 2020."


If you don't get a response on this one soon, go to the librarian's thread and list it there. You need a super-librarian for this (meaning a GR employee, not just a humble volunteer like me.)


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Q. wrote: "I'm trying to add The Civil War on Film
by Peg A Lamphier, Rosanne Welch but the list won't allow it even though the book was published in 2020."


Try it again ... (I added some things)


message 12: by Q. (new)

Q. BookLovingLady wrote: "Q. wrote: "I'm trying to add The Civil War on Film
by Peg A Lamphier, Rosanne Welch but the list won't allow it even though the book was published in 2020."

Try it again ... (I added some things)"


Thanks a bunch :) ! It worked.


message 13: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis The system found and removed 4 duplicates.


message 14: by Naomi (new)

Naomi 2 duplicates found and removed


message 15: by Anchal (new)

Anchal Bhatia Umm, I am trying to add Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka, which was published in 2021, but it won't let me. It says it wasn't published in this time frame.


message 16: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis Anchal wrote: "Umm, I am trying to add Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka, which was published in 2021, but it won't let me. It says it wasn't published in this time frame."

October of 2021 is well within the time frame, so you should be able, but these lists don't get much assistance unless we make noise. I recommend you go to the librarian's thread and report this, and be sure to include the ISBN number. Sadly, we volunteer librarians don't have the capability, so you need a GR employee to fix this.


message 17: by Momo (new)

Momo Myshkolnikov I don't trust living authors.


message 18: by Donna (last edited Sep 19, 2023 08:54PM) (new)

Donna Davis Myshkolnikov wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

In what way does death improve their work?

The system found and removed 18 duplicates.


message 19: by Momo (new)

Momo Myshkolnikov Donna wrote: "Myshkolnikov wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

In what way does death improve their work?

The system found and removed 18 duplicates."


Posterity is the greatest of filters, you know, the wheat from the chaff and whatnot.


message 20: by Agnieszka (last edited Oct 15, 2023 08:55AM) (new)

Agnieszka Momo wrote: "Donna wrote: "Myshkolnikov wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

In what way does death improve their work?

The system found and removed 18 duplicates."

Posterity is the greatest of filters, yo..."


Nobody’s forcing you to look at contemporary lists or to comment there.
It’s not the first list (neither the second) I found some kind of negative, even borderline inappropriate comments from you that have absolutely nothing to do with the list content nor it’s theme and by now I am extremely tempted to flag all future ones so GR employees can decide if we have to bear with those.


message 21: by Momo (last edited Oct 15, 2023 02:00PM) (new)

Momo Myshkolnikov Agnieszka wrote: "Momo wrote: "Donna wrote: "Myshkolnikov wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

In what way does death improve their work?

The system found and removed 18 duplicates."

Posterity is the greatest o..."



ha. You are a paragon of sensitivity, Madam.

(I may be negative, at times, but i am never inappropriate..)


message 22: by Lancelot (new)

Lancelot Schaubert Momo wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

Me neither, but obviously — being a living author — I don't hope that people read NO books by living authors. That's the same as wishing for poverty.


message 23: by Momo (new)

Momo Myshkolnikov Lancelot wrote: "Momo wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

Me neither, but obviously — being a living author — I don't hope that people read NO books by living authors. That's the same as wishing for poverty."


ha. Yes, well i would hate to think that my aversion dooms anyone to a life of impecunity, all cheap laptops and cold garrets.

(i will pledge to buy a few modern books then, as a show of goodwill to the living).


message 24: by Lancelot (new)

Lancelot Schaubert Momo wrote: "Lancelot wrote: "Momo wrote: "I don't trust living authors."

Me neither, but obviously — being a living author — I don't hope that people read NO books by living authors. That's the same as wishin..."


I mean "On Reading the Old Books" was what convinced me, and it was a modern book.

Distrust is fair. But I still interact with everyone I distrust. I just judge them based on those whom I trust.


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