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"Kindle Edition" And Other Non-Existent Formats
I know this has been discussed a few times since BookMooch went live, but it's becoming extremely frustrating: With the proliferations of e-books*, search results are now quite cluttered with "Kindle Edition" items, which are not possible to either list or mooch (though some seem to have been added to Wishlists). Shouldn't it be a relatively simple procedure to insert code into BookMooch's operating system that simply ignores "Kindle Edition" (and "Digital" and "Audio Download" and other listings that don't actually point to a physical item)? Thanks, John. Gratefully,
Michael Schneider
(username: schneider)
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Schneider
12 years ago
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Can you point me to some Kindle Editions that are making it through? I already have a whole list of "Bindings" that are supposed to be banned. It's very annoying that Amazon tries to shove these non-books at us, by labeling them as books but with a non-book binding. Sigh.... FYI, here's a list of all the banned "Bindings" that are supposed to already be suppressed. They might be getting through somewhere I overlooked. {Accessoire}
{Accessory}
{Album}
{Album vinyle}
{Andere Ausgabe}
{Appareils électroniques}
{Apparel}
{Audio Download}
{Automotive}
{Baby Product}
{Babyartikel}
{Badartikel}
{Board Game}
{Cadeau}
{Camera}
{Computerspiel}
{Digital}
{DIY & Tools}
{Electronics}
{Elektronik}
{Game}
{Game Cartridge}
{Garden & Outdoors}
{Gartenartikel}
{Geschenkartikel}
{Gift}
{Grocery}
{Health and Beauty}
{Jeu vidéo}
{Jewelry}
{Jouet}
{Kindle Edition}
{Kitchen}
{Kitchen & Home}
{Lawn & Patio}
{License}
{Microfiche}
{Microfilm}
{Misc.}
{Misc. Supplies}
{Mook}
{MP3 CD}
{MP3 Download}
{Office Product}
{Personal Care}
{Personal Computers}
{PlayStation}
{Puzzle}
{Shoes}
{Spiel}
{Spielzeug}
{Sports}
{Textilien}
{Tools & Hardware}
{Toy}
{T-Shirt}
{UMD for PSP}
{UMD Mini for PSP}
{UMD pour PSP}
{UMD Universal Media Disc}
{Video Download}
{Video Game}
{Videospiel}
{Watch}
{Wireless Phone}
{Wireless Phone Accessory}
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I just went to "advanced search" and entered "kindle" -- and got over 20 listings. There's a start. And yes, I did open several to confirm that the binding is shown as "Kindle Edition" It is possible that the "Kindle" is wrong (I saw that one had a condition note of "bent cover"), but it still should be corrected.
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@John, if you suppress "album", then you remove large-format comic strip books in French. Now I know why I couldn't list some with valid ISBNs!
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Also: "MP3 CD" is a valid, physical, exchangeable audio-book format, and should not be suppressed.
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I agree: MP3-CD should be allowed if it's an audiobook. I also do another trade site that gets it's info from Amazon. It doesn't have much of a problem with Kindle edtions or clothing and such. But there's tons of coloring books, comic books. paperdolls, calandars and such in the system. They remove them and the they just come back in the data transfers.
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Bump! There seem to be more and more Kindle editions finding their way into the BM database.
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