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1Sean191
Jul 27, 2010, 9:19 am

On my profile right now, the 2nd to most recent book I've added doesn't show a title or author or anything else except the fact that 15,000 some-odd people have the same book in their library. I haven't deleted it because I wanted to get to the bottom of things and also figure out if I actually added something (I can't remember which books I added today).

2vaneska
Jul 27, 2010, 10:35 am

Do you remember deleting something you added? - I've seen that happen then.

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3sqdancer
Jul 27, 2010, 11:18 am

It looks like it got sucked into that "black hole" work:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9191770/details/62700042

This is most commonly reported as a glitch when adding from Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- the book looks okay on the "Add Books" screen but is pulled in with no title or author.

4lorax
Jul 27, 2010, 11:28 am

Yep, sqdancer is right -- it's the black hole, and it's a bug (mostly) with importing data from KB. Your best bet is to either edit the book if you remember what it was, or to delete it and re-add it. The black hole isn't getting fixed (it's been reported many, many times over the last nine months), so all you can do is rescue your books when they get caught up in it.

5theapparatus
Jul 27, 2010, 2:53 pm

I hit the black hole last night. I just deleted the record and went off to do something else. Like actual work that I should have been doing at the time. :)

6Sean191
Jul 27, 2010, 3:35 pm

I can't remember what it was....I know it's not something I read....it was something to be read I'm sure.