Better Data, Better Results

We’re excited to announce an update to our book and author catalog, which now takes advantage of Amazon’s more complete information about how different editions of a particular book are related.  Searching for a specific book will now return more concise, accurate results and you will also find that many books in a series that were previously inaccessible (due to Shelfari thinking they were the same thing) are now available to add to your shelf. For example, it used to be impossible to add more than one of the ‘Artemis Fowl’ books to your shelf:

        

        

But now you can proudly show the world that you’ve read all 6 books in Eoin Colfer’s great series. 

We’ve also introduced the ability to explicitly combine duplicate books in our catalog.  You may have noticed that searching for a book will sometimes return multiple copies of the same book.  By combining these duplicates for us, search results will become even more useful and it will ensure that information related to these books – reviews, tags and discussions – is kept in a single place rather than split among multiple editions of that book.

To access this feature, just use the combine them link you’ll find at the bottom of the page after you’ve searched for a book or author.

  

You can find out more about combining duplicate books in our Shelfari group

Best,

Amanda & the Shelfari Team

 

Comments

[Daynah]

Thank you so much for the updates! You've been doing a great job. :)

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I love the fact that now you can choose your book cover. A tiny pet peeve I always had was finding the book covers on your site that actually matched the ones I had on my shelf. I'm going through and changing all the books to the right covers now. Definitely a change made by an avid reader like myself. Great job!

[Trenton]

I wish there was an option under the quick add button called might-read because you never know if you will have the time or might even like the book you put into your i plean to read so i wish that was an option. just a suggestion.

[Norman Howe]

Editions and combining books. I notice a bit of a dichotomy in shelfari: I'm more interested in the informational content of a book, and don't care that it's an ace double backed by another title; others want the particular cover picture and format. An edition details page would be useful.

[Norman Howe]

Combining books: I just included a book unintentionally in a group of books I wanted to combine, because the screen changed as I was clicking on the button. A "Confirm y/n" button would help here, as I can't go back in and fix it. This would save your editors a bit of time too.

[Tiffany]

I didn't know where to put this comment, so I'm sorry if it doesn't go here. I think you should make shelfari into an app for ipod/iphone users. It would be a cool edition!

Thanks!