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1TFleet
mrt 15, 2020, 10:17 pm

The summary of 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies by Raymond Smullyan seems to be a long excerpt from the book. I copied it into a word processor; it’s 1,663 words. If the average novel is 85,000 words long, that’s 1/50 of a novel. Seems excessive.

I don’t know how to fix this. Can members modify these summaries via Common Knowledge or some other way?

2lilithcat
mrt 15, 2020, 10:41 pm

Oh, you mean the description.

No, you can't modify it, but you can flag it as "not really a summary". I did that, but more flags can't hurt. You can also give it a "thumbs down".

3haydninvienna
mrt 16, 2020, 6:20 am

>1 TFleet: >2 lilithcat: It isn't a summary. It's just quotation of the first couple of pages of the book—I "looked inside" the Kindle edition on Amazon. How do I flag it as "not a summary"?

4MarthaJeanne
mrt 16, 2020, 6:30 am

You click on the flag, then chose 'Not a summary at all.'

5.mau.
mrt 16, 2020, 6:31 am

I also flagged the text down. Actually the backcover of the book (at least in my own edition) has no summary, just some quotations.

6haydninvienna
mrt 16, 2020, 7:29 am

>4 MarthaJeanne: Thanks. Flagged.

7lilithcat
mrt 16, 2020, 9:14 am

>3 haydninvienna:

I know. That's why I said "you can flag it as 'not a summary' "

8TFleet
mrt 16, 2020, 10:40 pm

>2 lilithcat: Thanks, lilithcat. I just went there and saw that it has disappeared, so I guess other people already got to it.