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If you go to Mozart's "combine/separate" page, you'll see that it's easy to tell LT that books whose titles don't match are actually the same. The problem I'm addressing with is the reverse: it's impossible to tell LT that books whose titles are identical are actually different works.
Thus, I can see that someone (you, apparently) has entered a book entitled 'Don Giovanni' and has tagged it 'full score', while someone else's is the libretto, and a third person has the CD. But to LT these are all one inseparably entangled work. Thus, just as real libraries would say "Don Giovanni [sound recording]" to differentiate them, we have to edit our titles to say "Don Giovanni [score]". It doesn't matter what goes in the brackets -- and it doesn't have to be in brackets! -- they're just a way to let Legion of Combiners (we have our own group) separate "Don Giovanni [x]" from the otherwise identically titled others and group it with, say, "Don Giovanni in Full Score", where it belongs. I realize this makes the tag 'score' (which I use as well) a little redundant, but it can't be helped.
LibraryThing automatically groups books with matching ISBNs automatically, by the way.
Interesting to find a fan of Miss Manners. Did you know that Dan Savage sings her praises?
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Eric Grunin
posted by grunin at 6:10 am (EST) on Sep 3, 2006