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Wrong covers appearing

1mfd101
Apr 15, 2025, 8:17 am

I have just added the Delphi Classics edition of Christina Rossetti's complete poetical works to my site (mfd101), together with the correct cover and all details. However some 190 other covers that have nothing to do with Christina Rossetti have also appeared.

Not sure what to do to remove them ...

2waltzmn
Apr 15, 2025, 8:34 am

You didn't give many details, but it looks as if you added the wrong book. Go to your copy of the Rossetti work and look at the "editions." They are almost all editions of Sarah, Plain and Tall. A copy of the Rossetti book accidentally got mixed in. You should split off your copy of the Rossetti book and join it to The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti, which will get rid of the other covers (which are correct covers of Sarah, Plain and Tall) and give you covers of your book.

If you see a whole bunch of wrong covers when you add a book, the explanation is almost always an incorrect combination, as here.

3MarthaJeanne
Apr 15, 2025, 8:43 am

I have separated your book from Sarah, Plain and Tall? It may take a while for your cover to follow.

4mfd101
Apr 15, 2025, 8:45 am

>3 MarthaJeanne: Thanks, I'll check tomorrow.

5Rommert
Aug 17, 2025, 8:03 am

How does cover flagging work nowadays? I cannot find this option anymore since the LT update last year or so. I think a cover such as in https://www.librarything.com/work/10678019 is inappropriate (not a cover at all).
This question may be in the wrong topic, but I can't find any better place.

6waltzmn
Aug 17, 2025, 8:09 am

>5 Rommert:

I've flagged it.

In future, you can flag it by going to the "covers" panel, and click on the magnifier bar at the bottom of the bad cover. That will bring up the cover-flagging pop-up.

7Rommert
Edited: Aug 17, 2025, 8:22 am

>6 waltzmn:

Thank you. Then why doesn't this work for https://www.librarything.com/work/10679375 ?

8waltzmn
Aug 17, 2025, 8:29 am

>7 Rommert:

That isn't an actual cover; it's a pseudo-cover. I don't know how those happen either; perhaps someone else can explain it better than I can.

9MarthaJeanne
Edited: Aug 17, 2025, 8:37 am

Because that book has no covers. The only place you see a cover is in the series section, and that is a cover for the first work in the series. This is normal. Even in series where all the books have covers, the cover for the series may not be the one for that work.

That particular cover is the Amazon cover for that first work in the series.

10waltzmn
Aug 17, 2025, 10:56 am

>9 MarthaJeanne:

Thank you for the explanation. I knew it wasn't a proper cover, but I didn't know why!

11Rommert
Aug 19, 2025, 4:08 am