Review requests

Every request from a member waits on Review until an admin decides. Your own requests skip it unless they look like a duplicate.

Each card shows the book, who asked and when, and what the duplicate check found:

• Not on the shelf, no close matches: Approve queues the download; Decline turns it down.
• Possible duplicate: Audiobookshelf already has a book with the same title, first author and first narrator but a different ASIN, usually another edition of the same recording. The two are compared side by side, with matching author and narrator highlighted. Same book, skip declines it; Different, add it approves it.

Exact matches (same ASIN) never reach this page: they’re marked On shelf at once.

Many at a time

Tick the checkbox on several cards, or Select all, then Approve or Decline them together. Approve the N that aren’t duplicates approves every plain request in one go and leaves the possible duplicates for you to look at.

Declining is sticky

A declined book stays declined: if the member asks again, nothing comes back to Review. To change your mind, find the book in the Catalog and Pull it.

Getting pinged

With notifications on, Discord gets a message when requests are waiting, at most once an hour and only when the list has changed. Home shows them under Needs you.