Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Hi, there are several books associated with the incorrect author. The only books that should be on this author's page: David LaBounty are: moon chalk, Affluenza, The Trinity, and The Dirty Napkin. All other books with the Author David LaBounty should be associated with me https://www.goodreads.com/david_labounty (but I can't set up an author page because I can't associated my name with these books). Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I'll see what I can do

Thanks, Suzi! :-)

1. I moved these books to a unique author profile. I think I got them all. I merged some duplicates and added some covers.

2. You have a user profile. You can claim this by going to the author profile page here: David LaBounty

scroll down and click on the link that says is this you?

3. There are already authors with the same name.

4. Goodreads disambiguates between authors of the same name by using spaces before the author's last name.

5. This author profile has 2 spaces: David^^LaBounty, where the ^ equals a space.

6. When publications are automatically imported from Amazon or other sources, the "handshake' between Goodreads and the other source do not recognize multiple spaces, so the work goes to the default 1 space profile. It is systemic and in no way implies that another author is claiming your work. Often when users add works, they may not be familiar with the number of spaces that this profile uses, so may only use the default spacing, as you did and this also in no way implies that the other author has claimed your work.

7. You can post in this forum to have it moved as you have done, or you can add the book with the 2 spaces between your first and last name before publication.

8. When you ask for assistance, it is helpful to include that your author profile has 2 spaces.

Fantastic, Suzi. I filled out/submitted the "is this you" form. I appreciate all of your help.
Best,
David