When I added volume two, I mentioned in the notes that it belonged to a series, with a link to volume one, then I got an email saying something of the effect of “we were unable to find a series page; please send the link”, but there’s indeed no series page on amazon. I’ll send a feedback on the first volume, then!
@brandon This was happening before, so I’ll put it here instead of the infrastructure post, I just felt something was weird but I couldn’t really put my finger in what it was in the user lists page.
Question: why do a lot of series say “Various Authors” when they’re often from just one author? (I was looking at Dragon Ball today, because of the news, and it doesn’t seem… right). Is the auto-pull from Amazon ingesting things like publisher credits or something?
In this case it’s because of a data issue I’ve seen before with other series. Amazon isn’t always consistent about whether it puts spaces between Japanese author first name and surname, and Natively doesn’t do any filtering to put them into a canonical form. So the “various authors” are 鳥山明 and 鳥山 明…
You can file a feedback note on the book/series to get it made consistent, but that only deals with the one instance of the problem.
For resyncing a series from Amazon, is it better to wait until the new volume is out of “preorder” state and immediately purchasable, or does it not matter?
If the series already exists and is only missing the newest volume on Natively, I’ve been re-syncing only when that newest volume has a cover. If the Natively series is missing multiple volumes, I’ll re-sync regardless of of the latest volume has a cover or not on Amazon.
I should probably wait until the newest book out off preorder, but I figured it wouldn’t matter too much, especially if people are only occasionally checking series for new stuff they haven’t read yet.
Good point about the cover. The other thing I thought of was whether if the book is in preorder on amazon but not yet at all the other providers, I don’t know whether the system would go back and try again later to populate the other where-to-find links. But I suppose publishers probably provide the preorder data everywhere at once.
I don’t know if this is a new bug or not, but the ratings for the manga in my favorites list on my profile are completely out of whack. I’m seeing 4 stars when I would expect 5 and vice versa. How are series ratings computed since we can’t rate series yet?