Book "summary" of 1,700 words.

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?

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".

>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"?

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

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

>4 MarthaJeanne: Thanks. Flagged.

>3 haydninvienna:

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

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