Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #36 - The God Save The Queen Edition

This thread is for LT’ers or thingamabrarians, or members, or their designees, to post combining or separating problems with their books.

** If a book has been combined with a book that is extremely different from the original.
** If a book won’t combine with the other books just like it.
** There is a problem with the entry & it is just too overwhelming to deal with.

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It has been suggested many times that there be a single thread for LT’ers to post combining & separating problems so that:

** they can learn how to do it
** they can get help when needed
** just want someone else to do it (usually, they can’t understand how to do it ... which is normal ... or don’t have the time)
** and, finally, those LT’ers who “enjoy” combining can have a place to look to first to see what fun can be had helping LT be the best place to catalog books.

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WHEN YOU POST:

Please give us HYPERLINKS or URLs, not touchstones. Hyperlinks to the pages where the problems exist are much more accurate than a touchstone when there is a problem.

Give us the title & author, plus any other information you think we might need.

Then you can just wait, “and someone will be with you shortly.”

Suggestion from thread #29: If you have many works that need combining at once, please consider putting them into the same post with clear divisions between each set, for example:

Please combine:
1. Random Work
http:// link
http:// link

2. Different Random Work
http:// link
http:// link

That way, people are less likely to do them out of order and skip them, but also it means that one of us doesn’t have to do your whole post and there’s a clear way of saying where we’ve finished up to.

It would also be really helpful if once someone’s indicated that they’ve done part of your request that you edit your post to say “Done”.

Also, if you add new items to be combined, please indicate that they are new, for example by preceding them with “ETA:” or “Edit:”.

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Tim’s Guidelines for Proper Etiquette for contacting members about their book records:

“For this topic, I still feel strongly that I’d like to consider it bad form. Many others agree with me. But a few think I’m dictating and are angry about that. So, fine. Let’s just write some guidelines up. I propose that the guidelines be something along the lines of:

* Remember that LibraryThing is used for many different reasons. The way you use and enjoy the site is not necessarily the way others do.
* Be sensitive to how the member is using LibraryThing. Approach members who show no interest in the social side more cautiously.
* Try to provide helpful information and ask questions rather than dictating.
*If the user indicates displeasure at the request, let it drop.
* When in doubt, raise the issue in the Combiners! group before sending a message.”

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Skittles’ note: I would like to add that we should ALWAYS use private comment when we absolutely must contact a LT’er, even when their response isn’t private.

And, yes, this thread is similar to putting all of our problems together for people to see & say, “Oh, no!! LT isn’t perfect!!” or “Look at all of the problems that LT has.” That isn’t the case here. This is a place to gather “challenges” together to make it easier & faster to “fix” them. Let’s just remember that “bad” data comes from people ... people who make mistakes ... . WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES! (OK, there are a couple of perfect people around here.) Instead of complaining about the problem, let’s fix it.

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Dr Mike’s (aka theapparatus) note:

If both works that need to be combine have more than 200 records, please post your request in this thread:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/95602

You need staff intervention to handle that request.

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When this thread reaches approximately 200 posts, DO NOT POST HERE, but go to thread #37. This thread will be easier to handle if we keep it under 200 (faster loading). Please copy any notes or instructions to the new thread. Thank you.

Feel free to add comments &/or suggestions ... not just “challenges.”

** There is also a Combiner’s Group Information, FAQ & Discussion Thread #2 at:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/57164 .

That thread is for combining information, discussion in general, not for problems ... .

** The wiki page is here:

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Book_combining .

Many of the combination requests I made in this thread haven't been done yet. Doing a page search for my username should work. Most of these involve zero copies. I've edited the ones that have already been done.

If you're going to work on some of these, please let us know on that thread or this one (perhaps two people could work in opposite directions), and especially let us know which ones are done, so I can edit the posts in question. Thank you!

edit: Everything combined, thanks to all who helped!

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/series/Dylan+Dog
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/32488
http://www.librarything.com/work/8214201
http://www.librarything.com/work/8379816
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/162571
http://www.librarything.com/work/4279516
http://www.librarything.com/work/5979021

thanks

I did a bit of work on Moby Dick, mainly combining a bunch of stray NCEs that were floating around on their lonesome. I also separated out an NCE that had gotten combined into the main Moby Dick work. While I was there, I noticed a bunch of works are combined into the non-NCE work with names like "Illustrated Classics". I also noted there seem to be a lot of questionable works like Collins Classics - Moby Dick or Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) that may or may not be abridgments.

One thing they don't have are disambiguation notices like I've seen people have been helpful enough to put on ones they've identified as abridgments. So these could either be combined in if appropriate, or they could get DNs to ward off future questions. Work-to-work relationships showing they are abridgments/adaptations would also be cool, though I admit not to noticing those as much as DNs (really wish Tim would implement the RSI to have those relationships appear as an automatic DN).

Anyway, just thought someone who might want some monotonous CDO-appeasing work might want to check these out.

4> I would expect a penguin classic edition to be pretty much a definitive text with the addition of a short scholarly introduction I am not sure why this has been separated.
give me a reason or I will roll it back in.

5> No, I think that's fine. I just kept running across versions that seemed otherwise okay but then would have a DN note meaning someone had actually checked it out and it was an abridgment. I figured if I wasn't going to do that kind of legwork, I should post it for someone else who was willing.

These are commentaries on the Iliad, that I found combined with it:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11235864
http://www.librarything.com/work/11235862

6> nods it is common with authors like Mellvile , they pick up a flurry of adaptions that one way or another snowball.

just pulled Heidi out of Moby Dick's maw she does not seem grateful.

Hello,
sorry for the potential double post (i used the old topic as well)

please combine these works :
http://www.librarything.com/work/11007137
http://www.librarything.com/work/11031582

and if possible the authors too :
http://www.librarything.com/author/braeckmanjohan
http://www.librarything.com/author/johanbraeckman

the correct author name is braeckman (last name) johan (first name)
thanks

Trying to find the thread for combing works with greater than 200 copies effected... I've found one, I think.

11> This is the thread for combining works with over 200 copies: http://www.librarything.com/topic/94262

3> Part 3, done. Part 2, half-done. Are we sure that Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders and Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders: An entry from Gale's American Decades: Primary Sources are the same work? Part 1, completed through volume 20. I really am gonna get back to this one. I promise. (But I also welcome help.)

7> Done.

10> Done (with somebody else's help -- thank you!).

gilroy, there's a link in the first post as well to the thread you're looking for.

please combine

1 done
http://www.librarything.it/series/Quintett

thanks

>15 supersidvicious:
Assuming you meant vol. 5 of this series, done.

#12&14>

Ah. Awesome. My searches were coming up blank, but that was probably because I wasn't paying attention here. Darn Mondays...

2> Thread #34, Message 57: Done.

3> Part 1: Done through volume 40. (Still welcoming help!)

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9291561
http://www.librarything.com/work/8890377

thanks

18: Thank you! Message edited to reflect this.

Bambi appears to be needing a looking to:

http://www.librarything.com/work/107481/

I think this because of this review stating that they're reviewing the movie:

http://www.librarything.com/review/28844230

But if you look at the D. Notice, this isn't the record for the movie.

Lots of different covers in there as well.

edit: Bambi and the Butterfly may need some work as well:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Bambi+and+the+Butterfly&search...

Okay, time to crack down on 0-copy works now that we can combine them again. I'm doing what I can with the Nancy Drews, but some... I'm not understand why the 0-copy editions are not showing up as potential combinations on the main work pages... What's weird is, for example, the 0-copy edition of "The Mystery at the Ski Jump" will show up as a potential combination on *other* Nancy Drew works, but not on the main work for The Mystery at the Ski Jump!

So yes. I'm getting frustrated with it, so if anyone could help me out...

Mystery at the Ski Jump
0-copy: http://www.librarything.com/work/9925260
main work: http://www.librarything.com/work/67077

The Haunted Bridge
0-copy: http://www.librarything.com/work/9925268
main work: http://www.librarything.com/work/50194

Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion
0-copy: http://www.librarything.com/work/10503564
main work: http://www.librarything.com/work/50177

The Secret of Shadow Ranch
0-copy: http://www.librarything.com/work/9925289
main work: http://www.librarything.com/work/38535

The Phantom of Venice
0-copy: http://www.librarything.com/work/9925270
main work: http://www.librarything.com/work/1660119

The Secret of the Forgotten City
0-copy: http://www.librarything.com/work/9925255
main work: http://www.librarything.com/work/112230

I'm sure to have more later! Thanks in advance for helping!

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/491971
http://www.librarything.com/work/4884946
http://www.librarything.com/work/4264842

I have two books that look like they need some major work that I don't have time to work on right now:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6460975
http://www.librarything.com/work/1123128

It looks like twelve volumes have been smashed together into two works. Can't be completely sure.

22, 23> Done.

21, 24> Ugh.

Please combine

http://www.librarything.nl/work/9266517

with

http://www.librarything.nl/work/11243835/72972521

Thanks

I thought we were holding off on the Nancy Drews pending a discussion on combining the originals with the updated conversions.

26: Looks like someone did yours already. Can;t be 100% sure as I don;t have access to the *.nl site.

Please combine:
Det svenska jordbrukets historia : Jordbrukets första femtusen år
http://www.librarything.com/work/3742431
http://www.librarything.com/work/479540

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11245172
http://www.librarything.com/work/10641062
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11245299
http://www.librarything.com/work/10641053
thanks

27: If you can figure out, or have the time to figure out, exactly which ones are revised and should be separated, be my guest. Some (like the Brass-Bound Trunk one) are already separated. However, I see no logical way to pick through each and every work trying to separate the revisions. Many (sometimes most) of the editions have no ISBN, or say revision when the ISBN is for the original, etc etc. I just don't see any good way to go about it.

In the meantime, I see no reason not to combine 0-copy works with the main work, when the ISBNs are both originals.

2> Thread #34, Messages 58, 59 & 61: Done.

3> Part 1: Done through volume 50. (Still welcoming help!)

28> Done.

29> Done.

>24 gilroy: is done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10010072
http://www.librarything.com/work/5962148
http://www.librarything.com/work/5714626

thanks

Don't ask me how I got started on this, but somehow I caught myself trying to figure out all the different "University Physics" books. Some list volume 1 and volume 2 (Plus we have a zero copy volume 3 floating around) as well as study guides and such. Too much for me to poke at right now.

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=%22University+Physics%22&searc...

Plus, authors cross so the search link is easier than the work link.
Thanks!

33> done

31> Thanks. Post edited.

Did you combine requests 11 and 12 together? They're both abridged audiobooks, but I kept them separate because one is part of a series and the other is not.

Perhaps it should be a publisher series, I'm not sure. I made it because Hachette is publishing them all in this form, and my separating had exiled them from the original Campion series.

Are there rules for this?

Could someone combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1043771

http://www.librarything.com/work/11249203/book/73022865

Thanks

37 done

36> I may have inadvertently combined your requests 11 and 12, but I've re-separated them on the theory that I don't know whether they're the same. If so, they probably should be combined; otherwise, unless somebody points us to a practice or standards that says "any abridgment should be combined with all other abridgments of the same work," I'm all for making (or preserving) distinctions if there's any doubt. Thanks!

http://www.librarything.com/work/1447423
http://www.librarything.com/work/3350036
http://www.librarything.com/work/2048708
http://www.librarything.com/work/4658247

Some of this I'm going to be able to get myself.

Got it all. (The advantages when you yourself own one of the no author editions.) Now to find the book and do a GOOD job of cataloguing it.

39> Thanks for re-separating them. I don't know whether they use the same abridged text (which I suppose would mean Hachette made a deal with Penguin), but in any case they're by different readers.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/11250756
http://www.librarything.it/work/10641063

thanks

Question: Is it possible to alias two divisions to each other?

Roberta Hunt (2) = Robert Hunt (6)

actually Robert A. Hunt.

2> Thread #34, Message 62: Pending; not forgotten. (Help welcome)

3> Part 1: Done through volume 60. (Help welcome.)

42> Done.

43> Why wouldn't we alias both "Roberta Hunt (2)" and "Robert Hunt (6)" into the applicable "Robert Hunt" division? Maybe I don't fully understand the "finer points of aliasing" yet -- more likely than not; but here's how (I think) I'd approach it: (1) identify the desired "top-level author," in this case the "Robert Hunt" disambiguation; (2) alias each division to that generic author, if it's not already there; and (3) re-assign the specific works attributed to each aliased author to the applicable division of "Robert Hunt." Am I close? If not, somebody stop me before I alias again! (Or, maybe gently point us in the direction of aliasing guidance that we may need to remember.) Thanks!

43, 44> If I were going to do something like that, I would alias Robert Hunt 6 into Roberta Hunt, as Robert A is more specific than Robert.
I'll move this to a separate thread.

2> Thread #34, Message 62: Done. (Help welcome, beginning with Message 63.)

3> Part 1: Done through volume 70. (Help welcome.)

I've been futzing with this most of the day and my eyes are starting to cross.

http://www.librarything.com/series/Battles+and+Leaders+of+the+Civil+War

Its a four volume and eight volume set. I've added DN to a few, but they should all be in the series for combination purposes. Be sure to check the volumes to make sure that the volumes aren't crossed when combined. Someone might have dumped a first volume into teh four set or vice versa. Anyone wishing to jump into it, be my guest.

I'll start work on the photographic history later. That is a five and ten volume set, also going series. *sigh* all mixed up like the other.

This series needs some combining:

http://www.librarything.com/series/Postscripts

2> Thread #34, Message 63: Done. (Help wanted, beginning with Message 65.)

3> Part 1: Done through volume 80. (Help wanted.)

# 48 done, found some extra copies too.

# 49 3>part 1: done, did a search on "dylan dog" and found a lot of copies, added some to the series but left most of them alone since I don't speak Italian and there seem to be several dylan dog-series. I trusted the numbers on the series page and combined those.

#49 2>thread # 34, did most of message 65
questions:
1. What does "ETA" mean in a message? Since I don't know, I didn't combine the works mentioned under ETA with the others.
2. I still see several radio theatre/radio collection copies combined with the Silver Chair-novel. 235711: I trust you will separate them and post the desired combinations here.
3. #36 seem to be two very different books, so these are not combined.
Also did message 118

46, 49> Thank you, messages edited.

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50>

1. "ETA" means "edited to add". This was in case someone would start combining as soon as I posted the original message. As long as it's under the same number, they can be safely combined (unless someone else miscombined something in the meantime).

2. I did a lot of separating back then, and found some copies that were clearly meant to be books, only with the wrong ISBNs. So that might explain it.

I have to go now, will look at the rest later.

Is there any way to further improve the author "-Author-"?
http://www.librarything.com/author/author&all=1

The max number of splits (40) has been used, and they can't be reused because of aliasing?

Right now, I'm combining aliased items to their proper works. This removes items off the -author- page.

Am I then able to reuse those split numbers then?

ETA. Should I go back in to authors names and separate out -Author- names (after works have been combined out into the main name leaving e.g. author-20 with no works and therefore be reusable for the -Author- page splits)?

2> Thread #34, Message 65: Done through #32. (Thank you, sneuper!)

3> Part 1: Done - Yay! (And thanks again!)

Edited to update

Excuse my ignorance and/or if I've posted t his in the wrong place.

There's a misplaced author picture and I'm not sure how to reassign it. I could perhaps fake my way through but I'm afraid of accidentally deleting the pic.

The picture for John Fletcher (4) http://www.librarything.com/author/fletcherjohn-4 is currently attached to John Fletcher (1) http://www.librarything.com/author/fletcherjohn-1

Thanks for the help...

Wallace and Gromit need some love. Especially the DVDs. I see the were-rabbit DVD listed at least 4 times:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=wallace+gromit&searchtype=work...

edit: Thanks sneuper for doing 48.

#36 seem to be two very different books, so these are not combined.

So they are. I swear I never saw that Chinese dragon book before in my life. Made a note. I'm going to look if there's any other Caspians left to combine instead. edit: Found a zero copy among the suggestions and combined it; also a BBC version.

Changed the last book of #33, which was a single Magician's Nephew but had become the omnibus after someone miscombined it. It's back to being a Magician's Nephew now.

Also, I checked most of them a couple of days ago and found that several not mentioned here had already been combined. So thanks to the anonymous helpers as well as the people posting here.

Dear Combiners/Separaters

I've recently purchased and added some books by Peter V. Brett http://www.librarything.com/author/brettpeterv-1 but looking at his pages he seemes to have had a number of Peter Brett's combined into him http://www.librarything.com/author/brettpeterv . I'm not too sure if this affects this but I notice that Peter V. Brett has had his canonical name set to Peter Brett. Is it possible for you to work your magic and separate out the Peter Brett's to leave the Peter V. Brett?

Regards

Dave

> 54
Thanks to whoever fixed the John Fletcher pictures!

T3 needs some love as well please.

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=rise+of+the+machines&searchtyp...

For reference, the David Hagberg record is the novel.

seperated Peter V. Brett

The dog from nowhere by Elizabeth Coatsworth
http://www.librarything.com/work/3376446/book/67065127
and
The fox boy (Original USA title: Pure Magic (Republished as: The Werefox). UK title: The Fox Boy) by Elizabeth Coatsworth
http://www.librarything.com/work/2628025/book/68908982
belong on this author page:
http://www.librarything.com/author/coatsworthelizabeth-1
but I can't find them, nor are they on the author disambiguation page. Please help? Thanks.

Note: Do not confuse The Fox Boy with The Fox Friend. They are different stories, and The Fox Friend is a picture book, not a novel.

62> Follow the link to the author she has been aliased into, and you will find Pure Magic and The Dog from Nowhere on the list. It can get very confusing as there is no way now to tell what author a book you own has ended up in.

Confusing indeed! I had no idea there was an additional page there, thanks.

>61 SimonW11:

Thank you

#2, #20, #36, #41, #51, #56, #57 (in short: dear 235711 :-)

I think everything in thread #34 in your messages is combined now. If not, please put the remaining works in this thread (the search in the other thread would otherwise take too much time).

I did 60, my Rise of the Machines one.

I noticed that these two works got separated. Can anyone see a reason why?

http://www.librarything.com/work/11257151

http://www.librarything.com/work/6375613

I left the separator a comment asking why but maybe someone else will see the reason that I can;t.

66> Confirmed. All messages edited, including #2 in this thread. Thanks for the help.

I'm getting weirdness here:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6348917/editions/73116960

When I click on c"ombine/separate potentials", the page loads only two copies; thus, I cannot combine these works. Somebody else? And, anyone know why this is happening? thx

Does anybody have a clue how to combine two series of book awards?

This one
http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Nederlandse+literaire+canon+in+honderd+%28...

and this one
http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Nederlandse+literaire+canon+in+honderd+en+...

are the same.

Or should I just do it work-by-work?

71 Work by work. :) edit: WHich one are we working towards?

70 I can combine them. edit: Done.

The Wonderful Story of Cinderella
http://www.librarything.com/work/10632745
http://www.librarything.com/work/8607583
http://www.librarything.com/work/3812363

Garden Guide To The Lower South
http://www.librarything.com/work/8923142
http://www.librarything.com/work/3765716
http://www.librarything.com/work/3093678

The World of Chas Addams
http://www.librarything.com/work/329916
http://www.librarything.com/work/3041228

>50 sneuper: and >53 jasbro:. thanks for your help on http://www.librarything.com/series/Dylan+Dog
there are at least 5 different original italian series about dylan dog, I created translated series as publisher series. Titles are localized in local librarything, see http://www.librarything.de/publisherseries/Dylan+Dog+Schwarzer+Klecks and http://www.librarything.nl/publisherseries/Dylan+Dog+Silvester+Strips for example
thanks a lot!

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10071085
http://www.librarything.com/work/5604278
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/6122421
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667110
http://www.librarything.com/work/10076976
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5594229
http://www.librarything.com/work/6122434
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/I%2520racconti%2520di%2520Repubblica
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667177
http://www.librarything.com/work/922702
6 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1713653
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667181
7 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2108
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667182
http://www.librarything.com/work/6803816
8 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3172468
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667155
9 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2950063
http://www.librarything.com/work/10151
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667154
10 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/76698
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667119
11 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2856
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667120
http://www.librarything.com/work/4054932
12 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/4091153
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667147
13 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/234008
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667179
14 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/28696
http://www.librarything.com/work/10667123

thanks

75 is done

#73 done
#74 done
#76 done

All this concerns Wood (ISBN 1561580996)

I have separated this from http://www.librarything.com/work/861611
The Dreaming: A Novel of Australia / Wood, Barbara

Now all the editions Wood are separated but the possibillity to combine them with The Dreaming stays. How is that possible because there are no zero-copies left.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11260999
http://www.librarything.com/work/11261006
with
http://www.librarything.com/work/11261004

Editing because of typo

Don't know what got me on a Civil War kick, but now I run across a question.

http://www.librarything.com/work/1552618/

Title says 3 volume set. Editions shows 9 and 14 volume sets combined with this. What says the group? Separate or leave lumped?

please combine

1 done
http://www.librarything.it/series/O%2520tempo%2520e%2520o%2520vento
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/322284
http://www.librarything.com/work/5903445

thanks

#79 done
#81 done

#80
Separate. Because the individual volumes of the 3-, 9- and 14- volume sets also show up. These need to be in separate series, together with the combined set they belong to.
I also see some individual volumes among the editions of the combined sets.

A lot of work indeed. You will also need a lot of disambiguation notices to distinguish the various sets.

Flip and the Morning http://www.librarything.com/work/4861139/editions with
Flip and the Morning by Wesley Dennis
http://www.librarything.com/work/33319/editions/66417350

Danny Dunn, Scientific Detective
http://www.librarything.com/work/9346758
to combine with
Danny Dunn, Scientific Detective, No. 3
by Jay Williams
http://www.librarything.com/work/572744/editions/73206197
Already tried editions combine potentials; didn't register.

Please combine
Faktakalendern 1997
http://www.librarything.com/work/6195913
http://www.librarything.com/work/6232037

This is the thread where we post if we notice that two separate works are actually the same work, yes? Forgive me, first timer here. But if so, I believe these two works need to be combined:

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams
http://www.librarything.com/work/10264784
http://www.librarything.com/work/10812390/

#84 done
#85 done
#86 done, plus combined some other editions of these Faktakalendern

Hi sturlington and welcome to this group.

Yes, this is the group to ask for the combination of works that belong together. A lot can be done by yourself, by clicking on the "editions" of the work. Often the desired combinations show up and can easily be combined. If this doesn't work, or the combinations don't show up, you are more than welcome to post here.

In this case, there is also a matter of "too much love". This is the case when more than 200 copies are involved: in the past this led to overcombining and consequently a lot of work in separating the works again. The message you get when trying to combine the two works in your request is:

"Sorry, too much love! Because of a number of massive over-combinations (eg., every book by C. S. Lewis combined into one) combinations that change more than 200 books have been disabled, except for LibraryThing staff, until we work out some rules.
We're discussing the issue on this thread. Tell us your opinion, and what you were trying to combine.
You were attempting to combine: 10264784, 10812390."

So, you will have to post your request in the thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/94262

Hi, sneuper, thanks for explaining. I appreciate your taking the time.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/20956
http://www.librarything.com/work/2594795

(They show as "potentials" on each other's editions pages, but for some reason disappear when I hit combine/separate potentials.)

#91: done

Spongebob needs some love. I started on them but the library's closing:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=spongebob&searchtype=work&...

could someone please combine?
http://www.librarything.com/work/2017430
http://www.librarything.com/work/1218384
thanks!

94 done although looking at the editions page makes me thing 1st and 2nd eds got combined in there. Have to take a look at it later.

edit: Hmm, maybe not as recalculating the covers shows that only 1st ed covers come back.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/4648511
http://www.librarything.com/work/1014830
http://www.librarything.com/work/10425794
2 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/5392176
http://www.librarything.it/work/5947099

thanks

Please combine
När var hur 2000
http://www.librarything.com/work/9142132
http://www.librarything.com/work/4488530

>96 supersidvicious:, 97: Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Mille+Miglia+Racing
2 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/5392176
http://www.librarything.it/work/5947099

thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/2022576/
http://www.librarything.com/work/28872/

http://www.librarything.com/work/11227534
http://www.librarything.com/work/10302887
http://www.librarything.com/work/8743876
http://www.librarything.com/work/8551529

>99 supersidvicious:, 100: Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2158438
http://www.librarything.com/work/6426485
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7645336
http://www.librarything.com/work/2174698
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2758052
http://www.librarything.com/work/6509289
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2503808
http://www.librarything.com/work/4418189
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/W.I.T.C.H.+Graphic+Novel
thanks

Hi, please combine:

1
http://www.librarything.com/work/746933
http://www.librarything.com/work/2770808

2
http://www.librarything.com/work/1595588
http://www.librarything.com/work/4740236

Thanks

Also,

http://www.librarything.com/work/8960919
http://www.librarything.com/work/3788797
http://www.librarything.com/work/5855944

appear to be the same work.

I am a little confused, so forgive me. I previously suggested these two copies of Wastelands be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10264784

Ok, now they have the same URL, which is really weird. One of them has the author as John Joseph Adams (who is the editor), one has the author as Stephen King (who contributed a story). The first is listed as being in my library, the second is not. I'm convinced they are the same book. What could be happening?

Here is the link to the copy in my library, if that helps:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10264784/book/53763030

@sturlington, Take a look at the editions page:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10264784/editions

343 people think Steven King did the work. There's not enough other people who have the work as being by John Adams.

It's a common issue and has been discussed before. Only thing you can do is leave a comment to all of the members who have the book, explain how you see the issue and ask them to make the change.

Good luck with that. I went through the same thing with a cover on one of the RPG books I have indexed. :)

edit: Amazon has it right if you want to have something to point people at: http://www.amazon.com/Wastelands-Apocalypse-John-Joseph-Adams/dp/1597801054

Ok, thanks for explaining. I don't think it's worth the bother. The truth is, the only reason I noticed is the Stephen King version was showing up in my recommendations. So I'll just click No thanks! and pretend it isn't there.

The funny thing is, even though I collect Stephen King, I bought that book because it has a story by Octavia Butler that's hard to find somewhere else. So in my opinion, the author should be Butler.

(Not really.)

But you're not allowed to say that another users's data is wrong. Perhaps the King story is the only in that collection that they care about and they want the book to sort with the rest of the Kings when they sort their library. Not right according to your standards but each users data is sacred on LT.

>108 jjwilson61: Is that addressed to me? I think #106 and I were both agreeing it would be silly to try to change the minds of 300+ people, and it's not at all important to me. I was wondering why that version wasn't showing up as being in my library, and theapparatus kindly explained it to me.

Honestly, I'm not trying to step on toes or tell people what to do with their data when I post in these forums; I'm just trying to understand LT better.

I actually wrote 108 simultaneously w/ your 107.

>110 jjwilson61: Oh, ok, I guess the thought of writing more than 300 people to ask them to change something on their database was so ridiculous that it had to be a joke. As in, you could do this, but no one in their right mind would.

Although I knew that we could edit the author fields on our books, I had no idea what effect that would have on the larger database. The way this site works is pretty darn fascinating.

I was mostly trying to explain why someone might consider King the "author" of that work instead of the editor, but it looks like you already thought of that explanation.

#111: Whoever told you that combiners were in their right minds?

more likely their left brains, but right mind? with OCD tendencies??

Not me!! nope!! nada!! never!

ETA: and we are addicts!!!

please combine:
När var hur : aktuell årsbok. Årg. 49 (1993)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4488521
http://www.librarything.com/work/7720890

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5641794
http://www.librarything.com/work/5295483
http://www.librarything.com/work/5227098

When Things Fall Apart: Qualitative Studies of Poverty in the Former Soviet Union

The Witch at the Window (7 copies)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1717880
to be combined with the below, but the editions combine link did not work?!?
http://www.librarything.com/work/1306580/editions/66985863

Hello
I'm not often here, so maybe I did something wrong.
I've added a book here http://www.librarything.com/work/book/73287875 & I wanted to combine it with other work from the autor http://www.librarything.com/author/childlee but seem s this book I'va added do not appear on authors page. What I did wrong?
Thanks a lot

>102 supersidvicious:, 103, 104, 114, 115, 116: Done.

>117 Gizmex:: I'm not sure which "other work" you were looking for, but I don't think you did anything wrong. WorldCat reports that Jutro możesz zniknąć is the Polish translation of Gone Tomorrow ( http://www.worldcat.org/title/jutro-mozesz-zniknac/oclc/708376766 ), so I'll combine those two. As for why the Polish translation wasn't showing up on the Lee Child author page, I'm not sure I know -- that seems pretty esoteric LT to me; it may fall under the general catch-all explanation of "caching." I just hope I'm not messing up somebody else's "diagnostic analysis" of a problem.

117/118 When you have changed an author, it doesn't automatically change the work - if the work needs to change you can hit recalculate title/author. I did and now the work is on the author page.

I've now combined it and a few other odd copies with the main work of Gone Tomorrow.

Thanks jasbro,

also

http://www.librarything.com/work/8708334
http://www.librarything.com/work/8479897

Combiners! Question:

I've seen a couple of this today (at least), and I'm NOT YET combining, so others might see it too -- one LT work (here, it happens to be http://www.librarything.com/work/8038308 ) appears on the Editions page of another LT work ( http://www.librarything.com/work/382468/editions ), but doesn't show up when I move from the Editions Page to Combine/Separate Potentials. I've also recalculated title/author and cover, to no apparent effect.

I'll also post this to Bug Collectors ( http://www.librarything.com/topic/116208#2696494 ), or maybe somebody can point me to an existing, apropos discussion thread. Any comment, thought, suggestion or insight is appreciated. Thank you!

ETA: >120 marq:: Done. And, marq, you need to quit showing me such fantastic stuff, or you're gonna bust our budget! :o) (As long as it's somebody else's fault ... right?)

Further ETA: Bug Collectors thread link.

I'm almost 100% certain these 2 Necronomicons should be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2933844
http://www.librarything.com/work/11209178

They have the same ISBN and, oddly, the exact same disambiguation notice.

>122 DemetriosX:: I combined, the doubted the combination and (I think) re-separated these two, largely because of the disambiguation: "Do not combine with other books titled Necronomicon. All books titled Necronomicon refer to the book H.P. Lovecraft invented as a literary device in his fictional world. Each one is unique. There is no definitive Necronomicon, nor is there a "real" Necronomicon." (Emphasis added.)

In my experience of the wide variety of LT cataloging practices, ISBN -- in and of itself -- seems among the least reliable data field to base combinations on, particularly for these works where each edition may be distinctive and even "authorship" may be an unreliable attribute.

I suspect we need someone with greater familiarity, maybe even copies of each edition or variant, to help with appropriate separations and divisions of:

http://www.librarything.com/work/855664 ;
http://www.librarything.com/work/2933844 ;
http://www.librarything.com/work/5113500 ;
http://www.librarything.com/work/8772466 ;
http://www.librarything.com/work/8981988 ; and
any other Necronomicon entries on LT.

Help?

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/W.I.T.C.H.+Adventures
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/W.I.T.C.H.
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9239472
http://www.librarything.com/work/9598270
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1949553
http://www.librarything.com/work/2546038
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/191726
http://www.librarything.com/work/9223926
http://www.librarything.com/work/9137395
http://www.librarything.com/work/11182865
http://www.librarything.com/work/7986457
6 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/40357
http://www.librarything.com/work/10587321

thanks

119
Thanks a lot MarthaJeanne :)
One last thing, I can see now this book combined, but I can't see that is in my collection on authors page, see here http://imageshack.us/m/844/425/79476619.jpg how to solve this?
Thanks

Hi, please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/945748
http://www.librarything.com/work/2330269

Thanks.

Also:

http://www.librarything.com/work/221920
http://www.librarything.com/work/94274
http://www.librarything.com/work/7679123
http://www.librarything.com/work/8958077

>123 jasbro:: I hesitated even suggesting the combination, based on the DN. But on top of the ISBNs, even the covers are the same. I suspect there's some bad data somewhere giving HPL author credit. Looking at the Amazon description for the apparently errant works, I think that, while they should be credited to Simon as author, they possibly shouldn't be combined with the other version. This seems to be a revised hardcover edition.

#126 done
#127 done

>128 DemetriosX:: I think you and I both may be struggling with similar limitations (and frustrations?) here, namely too little familiarity with the variant editions to determine which should be separated or combined as distinct works. To my mind, covers are NOT persuasive, primarily because -- unless explicitly chosen -- they automatically follow "best guess" matching based on ISBN. No doubt there's also ratty data here (e.g., Lovecraft, Simon and "Abdul Alhazred" each show up as "authors" of one or another text, sometimes with the same ISBN). That, together the DNs, leaves me wondering what (if any) reliable information we really have here, and what basis there is for combinations/separations. Unless we were to do "maximum separation" of all entries by ISBN, and then separate all entries with no ISBN by author and title variants, my preference is to leave well enough alone until somebody with greater familiarity with (even one!) version can lend a hand. But I would also respect the judgment of other LT members on this point. Thanks for your help!

i would combine the ones that share an isbn. Lovecroft and Abdul Alhazred. are just verisimilitude at work

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4507879/
http://www.librarything.com/work/1519647/

132 done.

edit: Note to self. Fix this one: http://www.librarything.com/work/2689914

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2255503
http://www.librarything.com/work/178213
http://www.librarything.com/work/3682300
http://www.librarything.com/work/7710899

(Siv Widerberg and Anna Artén are the two editors of the anthology.)

Stargate DVD's need some love:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=stargate+season&searchtype=wor...

>124 supersidvicious:: Done, as requested; but you may need to double-check your results on part 4, which seems to have come out as a "New Dell Edition" -- distinctly different from the combination of "programmes" I had expected.

>134 AndreasJ:: Done.

>thanks for your help.
Concerning 124#4, I don't own the works so I can't tell you if a separation is needed…

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10787154
http://www.librarything.com/work/2174700
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10787158
http://www.librarything.com/work/2174698
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9209152
http://www.librarything.com/work/3856122
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11281793
http://www.librarything.com/work/416478
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3761221
http://www.librarything.com/work/9098671

thanks

#137 done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1212141
http://www.librarything.com/work/7908386
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3715695
http://www.librarything.com/work/7916784
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7917529
http://www.librarything.com/work/3074324

thanks

Opinion time please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6671472 - Published Dec 2001 with 274 pages

http://www.librarything.com/work/1673365 - Published April 2001 with 240 pages

Both are 6" by 9" although they have different thicknesses. I'm almost tempted to say that they're different versions but the covers are the same and from poking around on line, I see no reference as such.

I would combine them, personally

They have different publishers. Just different ways of handling the numeration of title page etc is enough to explain most of the discrepency. Add in another couple of pages of 'I'm really glad this is now becoming available to another section of the world...'

I also think that they should be combined.

I went ahead and combined them.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/846858
http://www.librarything.com/work/982147
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11233136
http://www.librarything.com/work/9927315
http://www.librarything.com/work/8041605
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7448136
http://www.librarything.com/work/6448228
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5604214
http://www.librarything.com/work/6455359

thanks

please combine:

The Kennedy Wit
http://www.librarything.com/work/2642381
http://www.librarything.com/work/510309

Thanks!

#145 done

can you separate

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/etta&deepsearch=max+fridman

from

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Giusca&deepsearch=max+fridman

and combine the first with

http://www.librarything.com/work/5604281 ?

thanks

>144 supersidvicious:: 2 & 4 done.

Hmmm, just discovered that I have the Wastelands book mentioned up there at 105:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/115340#2695009

Author fixed. Doesn't help though.

Can you combine these two (the first has the correct author, the second, translator as author):

http://www.librarything.com/work/2528762

http://www.librarything.com/work/1355554

Thanks

Also, could someone combine these two. Both Amazon.co.jp and the publisher (Tankosha) give the publisher as author. (I don't know if this helps or not).

http://www.librarything.com/work/7898368

http://www.librarything.com/work/4542738

Thanks.

please combine

1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/W.I.T.C.H.

thanks

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/6169506

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/384874

#150 done
#151 done
#153 done

@supersidvicious, working on the WITCH mangas....

edit: I think I got them all.

>155 theapparatus:
Thanks
by the way,
http://www.librarything.com/series/W.I.T.C.H. are novels, while

http://www.librarything.com/series/W.I.T.C.H.+Graphic+Novel are comics created in Italy ( ;-) )

I will be back (soon?) asking to combine Graphic Novel as soon as I figured out relationships using among others this page http://witch.barksbase.de/de/w/creators.php

thanks!

Hmmm, from the covers they look like those Tokyopop works....

>sneuper
Thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/2183690
http://www.librarything.com/work/5135750

Series CK needs checking afterwards.

This book: http://www.librarything.com/work/70849 has a disambiguation notice saying not to combine the "book and records" with the regular book, but it seems that they are indeed combined. To seperate or keep combined?

I've seen many where 'book and tape' or 'book and record' have been combined with the book alone, and I don't care if they are combined as it is just an alternate edition of the book (the tape is just word for word of the book text usually, like those see, hear, read picture books). If it is just an alternate edition, same complete text as in the book, why have it separate? Also, I have several where I don't have the cassette tape, even though that edition says it is supposed to have it (but I found them secondhand without). I would combine them, personally. It is just an alternate "edition".

very few of them mention the record so i think i would combine them with the book only ones

>159 MarthaJeanne:: Combined, and Series CK revised. Is this what you meant to happen? Please advise & thanks.

163> That looks lovely, thanks. I don't know why the person who set up the series didn't make a combination request at the time.

These three need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1462759

http://www.librarything.com/work/3271718

http://www.librarything.com/work/2615083

Working on 165

edit: Done.

Thanks

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/3985
http://www.librarything.com/work/7172275

Thanks

168 Done.

Could someone please combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11307485/ (with correct author)

http://www.librarything.com/work/3435398

Thanks

Please combine the following: (the ones grouped together go together)

http://www.librarything.com/work/7928524
http://www.librarything.com/work/8363139
http://www.librarything.com/work/8409313
http://www.librarything.com/work/4004164

http://www.librarything.com/work/8409305
http://www.librarything.com/work/4004166

http://www.librarything.com/work/8409309
http://www.librarything.com/work/4004171

http://www.librarything.com/work/8409325
http://www.librarything.com/work/7928693
http://www.librarything.com/work/4004174

http://www.librarything.com/work/8409318
http://www.librarything.com/work/8363289

http://www.librarything.com/work/8363130
http://www.librarything.com/work/8409319

http://www.librarything.com/work/8363310
http://www.librarything.com/work/3894842

http://www.librarything.com/work/11307649
http://www.librarything.com/work/3894840

http://www.librarything.com/work/7960606
http://www.librarything.com/work/11307645

anybody can help on #147?
thanks

147, 172>The two books are a single edition. I don't see how they could be separated unless it were changed in at least one of the catalogues.

>173 MarthaJeanne:
so I should contact the owners of the books?

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5776776
http://www.librarything.com/work/367767
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10488278
http://www.librarything.com/work/1727180

thanks

#170 done
#171 done (and cleaned up the CK section a bit)
#175 done (why does the English version have 114 extra questions and the French only 111?)

>176 sneuper:
no idea why questions are more in english than in french...

The main work : Roger Zelazny's Prince of Chaos http://www.librarything.com/work/5679545
Strays versions of it I can't find a simple way to combine because they're authorless :
http://www.librarything.com/work/5680011
http://www.librarything.com/work/3692857

Please give me a sec.

edit: Done.

Thanks :)

Not a problem. Never got around to reading the series but played the module.

Castle Amber

Actually, that module isn't set in Zelazny's Amber universe, but in Clark Ashton Smith's Averoigne, the cover likely being a rendition of The Colossus of Ylourgne :)

*Your geekometer suddenly explodes*

I went looking at the Ologies series, and found a lot of strays. Can someone please combine the following?
vampireology
http://www.librarything.com/work/9798266
http://www.librarything.com/work/9708780

spyology
http://www.librarything.com/work/9956532
http://www.librarything.com/work/10087501

pirateology handbook
http://www.librarything.com/work/9802829
http://www.librarything.com/work/9660390
http://www.librarything.com/work/9660357

Also, is Pirateology: Pirate Hunters Companion and Pirateology: The sea journal of Captain Lubbers the same book (it appears to be different titles under US and UK publishing, but I'm not sure)? If so, these can be combined, if not, then the main Pirateology book needs to be gone thru.
http://www.librarything.com/work/9019464
http://www.librarything.com/work/5487322
http://www.librarything.com/work/5487323
http://www.librarything.com/work/1100455
http://www.librarything.com/work/6318482

Thanks, probably another post on the rest coming, but I need a short break first.

Okay, here's the rest.
wizardology
http://www.librarything.com/work/1051543
http://www.librarything.com/work/9822662
http://www.librarything.com/work/9805858
http://www.librarything.com/work/5759210

Wizardology guide to wizards
http://www.librarything.com/work/3454937
http://www.librarything.com/work/7805522
http://www.librarything.com/work/9867419
http://www.librarything.com/work/10606725
http://www.librarything.com/work/9725828

wonders of egypt
http://www.librarything.com/work/5888919
http://www.librarything.com/work/8956844

dragonology handbook
http://www.librarything.com/work/73016
http://www.librarything.com/work/8695749
http://www.librarything.com/work/10945724
http://www.librarything.com/work/9945950

tracking & taming 2
http://www.librarything.com/work/4880488
http://www.librarything.com/work/8420443

And if anyone wants to take a crack at editing the order of the Ologies or Dragonology serieses, have at it, cuz I don't have most of those books so I don't know the order.
http://www.librarything.com/series/Ologies
http://www.librarything.com/series/Dragonology

Thanks a bunch, people!

#183 done, but I didn't combine the handbook with the companion. They could be the same, but that needs some research.

#185 Bought these for my grandson and the handbook and companion are 2 different books. Don't combine.

#184 done, but I Left the order of the series alone

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/author/elsassernan
http://www.librarything.com/author/elsassernanmackenzie
2
http://www.librarything.com/work/815338
http://www.librarything.com/work/8296098

thanks

188> The work from 1 should be combined, but not the authors. (two people stuck together into one 'author' is not the same 'person' as one of the two.)

http://www.librarything.com/work/6759287
http://www.librarything.com/work/1064186

#189: done

#188 combined #2, but not the authors: the first one is a single author and the other are multiple authors.

Now that skittles combined the work the multiple author doesn't have any books anyway.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11319610
http://www.librarything.com/work/11319471

>193 publishyoursefer: done

>183 masterdeski:, 185, 186
I guess my sleep-addled brain didn't write clearly. I didn't mean for the Pirateology Handbook to be combined with the Pirate Hunters Companion / Sea Journal. I meant to ask if the Companion and the Sea Journal were the same. The strays I identified were combined into the larger work, which already had both titles, so I'll leave that be. But the Handbook strays still need to be combined into that larger work.
pirateology handbook
http://www.librarything.com/work/9802829
http://www.librarything.com/work/9660390
http://www.librarything.com/work/9660357

Thanks, and sorry for the confusion.

#195 done

#195 If I look at Worldcat, it gives the titlepage title as:
Pirateology : the sea journal of Captain William Lubber
and the cover subtitle as:
"A Pirate hunter's companion"

Since I do not have the copies at hand, I am guessing on this but I think they may be the same. My grandson has all the pirateology books (I think) and I do not have a title with sea journal on my master list.

Edited to add: both titles in Worldcat include this isbn: 0763631434; 9780763631437

and for clarity - there is more than one record in WorldCat and the subtitles varies in the last one, held by one library

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4579168
http://www.librarything.com/work/162214

199 done.

And this ends this thread. Give me a sec and I'll start a new one.

edit: Please continue here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/116966