Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

What's happened so that descriptions don't transfer over when the Amazon bot imports/creates books? I've noticed lately that new Kindle editions have no description. Something else is now broken?

Yep, seems like it. Hardly any descriptions are imported. Makes the whole auto import completely useless. Or at least even more useless.

I've been seeing junk descriptions that just repeat the title/publisher/date/format/etc. info that should be in the other fields. WHY WHY WHY are the GR bots so bad?

They like hanging around on poorly lit street corners, brainstorming new ways to create chaos, and tossing sticks into bicycle spokes as librarians ride by. Nasty little critters, impossible to eliminate, determined to take over the world. Created to be the bane of our existence, they also make us meltingly grateful for the occasional things they forget to mess up.

A very suitable description, Dobby. They remind me a bit of gremlins...