Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #40

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Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #40

1jasbro
Jul 26, 2011, 5:02 pm

**Please read as there have been modifications**
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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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WHEN YOU POST:

Give us the TITLE & author, plus any other information you think we might need & please NUMBER them if you post more than one.

Example:
..Please combine:

#1: The story of the life of you
http://www.librarything.com/work/XXXXXX
http://www.librarything.com/work/YYYYYYYY

#2: The story of the life of everyone else
http://www.librarything.com/work/WWWWW
http://www.librarything.com/work/ZZZZZZZZ

** Please do not give us search pages or author pages.
Give us concrete & specific works to be combined, not groups of possibles, unless you have questions. Series pages can be helpful.

** You can ask us to look at a set of works to ask our opinions or ask if someone with a specific language or subject knowledge look at your request, but please be brief.

** Make your request easy for yourself & for the combiners who will help you.

Then you can just wait, “and someone will be with you shortly.”
Please, keep in mind this work is done by volunteers, not LT staff.

*** If you number multiple requests, it makes it easier if someone can only work on part of a request.

*** If you edit your post to add new items to be combined, please indicate that they are new by preceding with “ETA:” or “Edit:”.

*** Also, please indicate when a request has been "DONE".
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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.
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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 #41. 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

4europhile
Jul 27, 2011, 4:00 am

#2 Done

5guurtjesboekenkast
Jul 27, 2011, 5:31 am

please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/3252356
Fanny Kemble: A Reluctant Celebrity / Andrews, V. C. (ISBN 0743403991)

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/462129
Fanny Kemble: A Reluctant Celebrity / Jenkins, Rebecca (ISBN 0743403991)

6guurtjesboekenkast
Jul 27, 2011, 5:52 am

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/9552391 Gates of Paradise without author(ISBN 0006178219)

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/72210 Gates of Paradise / Andrews, V. C. (ISBN 0006178219)

7theapparatus
Jul 27, 2011, 8:11 am

Thanks europhile

8jasbro
Edited: Jul 27, 2011, 10:32 am

> #2: Considering what I do with such requests (including my own), I suggest naming it "theapparatus' Method."

> #3, 5 & 6: Working on 'em; but others can join the fun (especially on #3). ETA: Looks like they're all done.

10sneuper
Jul 27, 2011, 12:15 pm

>9 supersidvicious: done, except for the last one under 1. - it is a work with a study outline. Maybe it's related to http://www.librarything.com/work/2598346 but I'm not sure.

12theapparatus
Jul 27, 2011, 1:44 pm

8) Nah, that's too boring since the other method is called the secret handshake.

I'm leaning towards Hodge Podge myself.

13theapparatus
Jul 27, 2011, 3:20 pm

Can someone please kindly hit the dupes in this series? I'm out of time.

http://www.librarything.com/series/Star+Wars+Knights+of+the+Old+Republic+Comic

14fdholt
Jul 27, 2011, 5:05 pm

#13 Did all but 33 with some "0" copies also.

Cover and title do not match on these so did not combine. Could you look at?
http://www.librarything.com/work/9721342
http://www.librarything.com/work/7708848

15jasbro
Jul 27, 2011, 10:48 pm

> #11: Done ... I think.

17r.orrison
Edited: Jul 28, 2011, 9:41 am

17 by @r.orrison> 16: Done (well, at 2:45am LibraryThing time I had done what was there at the time)

18theapparatus
Edited: Jul 28, 2011, 8:14 am

I think that series in 16 needs to be looked at as I still see some dupes.

Thanks fdholt. There were a couple of "Sonderband"s in there. That of course is the one pair that I did not check.

I'm not worrying about it.

20sneuper
Jul 28, 2011, 11:10 am

21guido47
Jul 29, 2011, 3:13 am

Dear Group.
just received http://www.librarything.com/work/274383/covers/76218617
It says the Author is "suzanne Szasz" she is the photographer and "Paul Gallico" is the author.
Even His author page points to this book.

Just NOT sure of how to fix this.

Guido

22r.orrison
Edited: Jul 29, 2011, 6:34 am

21 by @guido47> To fix your book, click the Edit Book link on the left; you can then move names between Author and Other Authors, and select their roles appropriately.

23jasbro
Jul 29, 2011, 8:52 am

> #21: Another thought: when I first followed your link, it came up with Suzanne Szasz as Author. Recalculating Title/Author (under "Advanced," at the bottom of the right-hand panel on the Work page) changed the displayed Author name to Paul Gallico. You might try it too, if this continues to be a concern (and you haven't already done it).

24r.orrison
Jul 29, 2011, 9:19 am

That link is to the covers page for his book, which has Suzanne Szasz listed as author (try his link again -- the second number in the URL is his book number). The work as a whole has Paul Gallico (see http://www.librarything.com/work/274383). In this case, recalculate author isn't doing anything, it's just showing the work record instead of his book record.

25fdholt
Jul 29, 2011, 9:38 am

#21 You have the author in your catalog as Szasz. Main responsibility depends on the extent of each's contribution and it can be fuzzy in library cataloging. Do as r.orrison suggests and switch the author and other author if you want Gallico. I also put in Szasz as the photographer so the book will show up in both author pages.

26bookel
Jul 29, 2011, 11:35 pm

Combine please, thanks.
The island stallion's fury by Walter Farley
http://www.librarything.com/work/4191773
http://www.librarything.com/work/322711

27europhile
Edited: Jul 30, 2011, 12:48 am

#26 done

28guido47
Jul 30, 2011, 3:23 am

Thanks, #22-#25,
I had just added that book by ISBN (worldcat)
When I saw the photograpger as author I thought there might have been something of significance wrong there.

Guess "someone once" used Suzi? as the author and it stuck :-)
EVERY CAT lover knows this book and would know Gallico wrote it :-)

Guido.

29theapparatus
Jul 30, 2011, 4:40 pm

Going out the door for the night.

Could someone please clean up amtrak wars:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=amtrak+wars&searchtype=work&am...

30Sthing
Jul 30, 2011, 4:55 pm

Hi.
I have separated http://www.librarything.com/work/11568944/ from "The Screwtape Letters", as it includes "Screwtape Proposes a Toast".
Please combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/11568944/ - Fra helvedes blækhus (a Danish translation)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1983515 - The Screwtape Letters (with Screwtape Proposes a Toast)
(I cannot combine them from the author page - I guess C. S. Lewis' works has to many editions.)

31jasbro
Edited: Jul 30, 2011, 9:54 pm

> #28: PLEASE don't tell our cat I didn't know this book. I do now, and it would only hurt her feelings.

> #29: Working on it. ETA: Done, I think ...

> #30: Done, with pleasure! Thanks.

32Avron
Jul 31, 2011, 3:25 am

Hello people. Can someone please combine these books, one, two, and three.

33guido47
Jul 31, 2011, 6:06 am

Umm, jasbro, #31,

Since that book is a manual "on how to manipulate Humans", I suspect YOUR cats already know this book :-)

Perhaps they didn't think you were ready for that knowledge?

34europhile
Jul 31, 2011, 9:31 am

#32 done

37235711
Edited: Jul 31, 2011, 5:42 pm

38235711
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 12:35 pm

ALL DONE

Someone is listing audiobooks by their narrators (or translators), with the result that the copies in question (45 of them) are separate from the main works they belong to. I'll be listing them here in groups of 5.

1. The Odyssey - Homer
http://www.librarything.com/work/9569928
http://www.librarything.com/work/1526

2. Aesop's Fables
http://www.librarything.com/work/9569929
http://www.librarything.com/work/6818

3. All Round the Year - Nesbit
http://www.librarything.com/work/9569931
http://www.librarything.com/work/11343358

4. The Song of Hiawatha - Longfellow
http://www.librarything.com/work/9569932
http://www.librarything.com/work/212771

5. The Magic City - Nesbit
http://www.librarything.com/work/9569933
http://www.librarything.com/work/607048

ALL DONE

43235711
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 12:37 pm

47sneuper
Jul 31, 2011, 4:00 pm

50235711
Jul 31, 2011, 5:43 pm

47: Thank you.

51jasbro
Edited: Jul 31, 2011, 10:09 pm

> #33: Touché!

> #38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49: Done.

52235711
Aug 1, 2011, 12:38 pm

51: Thank you!

54AnnaClaire
Aug 1, 2011, 4:28 pm

Found this pair while poking around some spam reviews:
http://www.librarything.com/work/6350426
http://www.librarything.com/work/1775939

55235711
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 6:01 pm

all done

A. Persuasion (film directed by Adrian Shergold; Simon Burke is the screenwriter)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9504106
http://www.librarything.com/work/6951107

B. going by the cover image, this
http://www.librarything.com/work/7061245
looks like Persuasion directed by Roger Michell
http://www.librarything.com/work/3290605
edit: and based on more cover stuff (wrong cover in A which disappeared when I separated directorless copies), these as well:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11577128

edit:

C.
And yet another dramatisation of Persuasion (directed by Howard Baker), with a strangely-authored zero copy:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1033194
http://www.librarything.com/work/9644645

all done

56235711
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 6:01 pm

57sorchah
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 5:34 pm

58theapparatus
Aug 1, 2011, 6:12 pm

jasbro, thanks for fixing the Amtrac wars one up there.

I'm on a locked down secured terminal so I can't see these for sure. (No covers, no google, etc.) This will need double checking:

Please combine these:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1186172
http://www.librarything.com/work/10561314/

Please double check these:

http://www.librarything.com/work/333847
http://www.librarything.com/work/9945976 (May have to drop that user a comment to see what it is)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11080776 (Ditto)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9142967
http://www.librarything.com/work/9142681
http://www.librarything.com/work/453828

Thanks and sorry for the trouble

60theapparatus
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 6:22 pm

This author needs to be cleaned up as well please:

http://www.librarything.com/author/jamesonjudy

edit: Also please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4651095/
http://www.librarything.com/work/5282251/

It's suggested but when you click through, I'm hitting that bug about the other one not being there.

61235711
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 6:29 pm

60 a: Done (yes, the two Dutch translations are the same book with a different title, according to the info linked to from that user's catalogue; so I'm assuming it's all that one book).

I can't do 60 b.

62theapparatus
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 6:59 pm

Thanks.

Could someone please look at the editions on this record?

http://www.librarything.com/work/8430814

Looks like someone used it as a catch all for this author's works.

edit: i was going to get so much indexed today...

reedit: Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/490079
http://www.librarything.com/work/11343400

And another pair please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5647676
http://www.librarything.com/work/11255091/

Another pair:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11154855
http://www.librarything.com/work/10893

And yet another:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9553726
http://www.librarything.com/work/5053930

64fdholt
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 8:20 pm

#62 Sorting out Wild ecstasy.

Also did #60b, 62 and 63.

Did not get to #58 and #59.

Edited to add more done and a typo

65theapparatus
Aug 1, 2011, 8:28 pm

thanks :)

66jasbro
Edited: Aug 1, 2011, 9:40 pm

> #58: You're very welcome. And your new requests: Done, with comments as suggested. (Follow-up to come per replies -- I hope).

> #59: Done.

68sneuper
Aug 2, 2011, 11:49 am

69235711
Aug 2, 2011, 12:21 pm

68: Thanks.

70Jarandel
Edited: Aug 3, 2011, 7:09 am

DONE.

Could someone combine those ?

"The gypsy" by Steven Brust & Megan Lindholm / Robin Hobb
Main work
http://www.librarything.com/work/36184
Stray
http://www.librarything.com/work/8948764/

Thanks.

72europhile
Aug 2, 2011, 7:14 pm

#70 & 71 done

73theapparatus
Aug 3, 2011, 10:15 am

Thanks :)

74235711
Edited: Aug 5, 2011, 11:37 am

Another BBC radio Mansfield Park to combine with the rest:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11584443
http://www.librarything.com/work/10071037

DONE

75AnnaClaire
Aug 3, 2011, 3:29 pm

Found a pair while looking through some of the "authors" I had bookmarked when "Other Authors" came out a while back.

http://www.librarything.com/work/825689
http://www.librarything.com/work/5261635

76jasbro
Aug 3, 2011, 6:54 pm

> #74, 75: Done.

78jasbro
Aug 4, 2011, 9:08 am

> #77: Fait accompli.

79guurtjesboekenkast
Aug 4, 2011, 12:14 pm

I tried to combine Joël de Rosnay Hubert Reeves, Yves Coppens, Domin with Hubert Reeves but I didn't manage. The first has the title in Greek and the second in English, with an original French title.

I don't know what must be done, but maby is combining the authors better, but otherwise here is the question with the links

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com /work/10775923 Η πιο Όμορφη Ιστορία του Κόσμου 1 exemple

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/446429 Origins: Speculations on the Cosmos, Earth and Mankind 55 exemples

About the last work I combined it with a proposed 0-copie one and the title changed from French into English on the Dutch site. There is no dutch title available for this work.

Many thanks

80AnnieMod
Aug 4, 2011, 3:59 pm

>79 guurtjesboekenkast:
They are not the same authors technically so they should not be combined.
Books combined now :)

83europhile
Aug 5, 2011, 4:01 am

#82 Done

84bookel
Aug 5, 2011, 7:43 am

To combine thanks.
So Much to Tell You...
by John Marsden
http://www.librarything.com/work/26150
http://www.librarything.com/work/11169792

85jasbro
Aug 5, 2011, 8:11 am

> # 81: Done.

> # 84: Done, with a GURPS Castle Falkenstein (which, unfortunately, bears he GURPS Japan ISBN) also separated and recombined. Please check that I didn't mess something up; thanks!

86bookel
Aug 5, 2011, 8:24 am

85 - a what?! Well it looks okay even if I didn't understand that! Both links lead to the same thing. :) It is an excellent book! I think I'll reread...

87theapparatus
Edited: Aug 5, 2011, 8:34 am

The Warp and Weft magazines could be made into a series if anyone is interested:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Warp+and+Weft&searchtype=work&...

I'm sort on time today. If not, I can get to it this afternoon.

Thanks

88theapparatus
Aug 5, 2011, 8:59 am

Also I'm currently reading a hard copy version of the Hobbit, ISBN 0395071224. I see a couple of these ISBNs listed under the annotated version. They probably should be removed from the annotated version and placed under the normal one.

Normal - http://www.librarything.com/work/3206242

Annotated - http://www.librarything.com/work/3393264

89jjwilson61
Aug 5, 2011, 10:29 am

88> Except that those ISBNs are listed with a title of The Annotated Hobbit:

The Annotated Hobbit / Tolkien, J.R.R. (ISBN 0395071224) (2 copies separate)

I believe current practice is for the title to take precedence over the ISBN for combining when there's a mismatch on the assumption that the person who has that book is more likely to have made sure the title is correct than the ISBN.

So please don't move those editions between works.

90krazy4katz
Aug 5, 2011, 12:46 pm

I haven't done any combining in a long time. I am not sure how to get this:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11316956

to combine with this:
http://www.librarything.com/work/5134

Thank you,

k4k

91AnnieMod
Aug 5, 2011, 1:38 pm

>90 krazy4katz: - Done.

>88 theapparatus:
I agree with jjwilson61 -- Name beats ISBN.

92theapparatus
Edited: Aug 5, 2011, 2:01 pm

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7591788
http://www.librarything.com/work/10603727
http://www.librarything.com/work/39245

I'm on my locked down terminal so I can't do it myself.

For the Hobbit, please kindly review as there are a couple of them in there that aren't labeled as such.

93AnnieMod
Aug 5, 2011, 2:02 pm

95LolaWalser
Aug 5, 2011, 3:06 pm

Argh! Could someone please separate out this (complete works in 10 volumes):

http://www.librarything.com/work/10072/book/74518127

from the mass of Crime and Punishment:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10072/editions/74518127

I tried twice weeks apart but I can't even find my entry among the editions!

Thanks

97LolaWalser
Aug 5, 2011, 3:15 pm

Yay! Thanks!

98AnnieMod
Aug 5, 2011, 3:22 pm

Anytime. Even found someone else's copy and combined them so you do not feel so lonely with that book :)

99I-_-I
Edited: Nov 23, 2020, 4:22 pm

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100I-_-I
Edited: Aug 5, 2011, 9:38 pm

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102europhile
Aug 6, 2011, 7:55 am

#99 & 101 done

103jasbro
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 8:19 am

> #87: Done. Sort of. (Phew!)

> #88: Found four records under The Annotated Hobbit with that ISBN. Three specifically said "Annotated" in the title; the fourth, a "plain Hobbit," I separated and re-combined with others of it's ilk. (Apologies to anybody I've offended; but theapparatus had a very good point here, and I'd have done that separation/re-combination anyway if I found it on my own.)

> #94: Done.

104I-_-I
Edited: Nov 23, 2020, 4:22 pm

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105theapparatus
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 11:39 am

103 Actually thought there were more....

I also was looking at the covers (At least the ones that I could see. Amazon covers are blocked from here.) and a few of them are the regular version. The annotated version that I used to have was the green woodsy one but with a big Annotated on the front of it I believe.

edit: Forgot to say thanks.

106I-_-I
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 11:56 am

Two more if you please...

1. Reader's Digest Book of the Great Barrier Reef
http://www.librarything.com/work/27351
http://www.librarything.com/work/7683286
http://www.librarything.com/work/5100246

2. The Annotated Mona Lisa (Carol Strickland)
http://www.librarything.com/work/42971
http://www.librarything.com/work/11325945
http://www.librarything.com/work/5993713

Also, i'm wondering how to fix a book that has wrong author info. (E.g. The Collected Jack London, which is listed under the editor's name rather than London's. I've fixed my copy, but the work ought to be "reassigned" to London.) If someone could point me to a thread that explains how to do that (or where i can place a request that someone else do it), i'd greatly appreciate it.

107235711
Aug 6, 2011, 2:01 pm

jasbro: thanks (twice).

109TLCrawford
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 2:23 pm

You were attempting to combine: 4305633, 11273061.

There are to many copies for it to allow me to combine them.

Smoke Screen and Smoke Screen: a novel both of course by Sandra Brown.

110theapparatus
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 2:38 pm

109> Please post that in this thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/95602

Also on a personal note please give the links, not just the numbers. For those of us with difficulties with the keyboard, doing a right click -> Copy is a lot easier than trying to copy and paste text. Thanks

edit: There's a zero copy as well: http://www.librarything.com/work/6884980

112sneuper
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 2:59 pm

114sneuper
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 4:21 pm

116jasbro
Aug 6, 2011, 5:11 pm

> # 105, 107: You're always welcome!

> #106: We can't change the author name on individual Members' records; but, since that appears to be the only "Steven J. Kasdin" work on LT, I "split" the author into one (yeah, that makes no sense), aliased "Steven J. Kasdin (1)" into Jack London, and combined your 131 copies with 2 more already appearing there (unfortunately, also showing the Author as "Steven J. Kasdin London"). At least it should come up with other editions of Jack London works.

> #109: Done.

> #115: Done, except your last request, which somebody beat me to. (Your encouragement to "go nuts" must have been more than we could resist.)

117sneuper
Edited: Aug 6, 2011, 5:20 pm

>115 theapparatus:, 116
Never can hold back after an encouragement like that :-)
It's a series now, looking good, except some editions, any volunteers to check out the ?'s in http://www.librarything.com/series/Letterhead+%2526+Logo+Design?

118I-_-I
Aug 6, 2011, 6:43 pm

> 112, 116 Thanks for the combinations and the info!

119fdholt
Aug 7, 2011, 11:09 am

I have been trying to combine these authors and cannot. Have no idea what else to do.

http://www.librarything.com/author/carolynbentley
http://www.librarything.com/author/bentleycarolyn

120jasbro
Edited: Aug 7, 2011, 2:43 pm

> #119: Done (aliased), I think.

121fdholt
Aug 7, 2011, 4:26 pm

#120 Didn't think about aliasing! Thank you.

122bookel
Aug 7, 2011, 8:47 pm

Authors to combine; the second is claimed not to be on LibraryThing (then why is it there?). I included the full middle name on Gingerbread Sleepover a few minutes ago, which may be why... but it isn't showing on the correct page.

Michael Rose Ramirez
http://www.librarything.com/author/ramirezmichaelrose
http://www.librarything.com/author/ramirezmichaelr

123AnnieMod
Aug 8, 2011, 12:41 pm

>122 bookel:
Done.

This means that even though there is a book on the author page, the book actually belongs to a different author... or something is badly cached. Anyway - fixed.

124prussia_cove
Aug 8, 2011, 12:54 pm

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9081183
http://www.librarything.com/work/5260136

For some reason, if I search my library for the author, his page shows,

http://www.librarything.com/author/bystrmdan

but my book is not there, the same thing if I click on his name from my book page.
In site search my book shows,

http://www.librarything.com/search.php

but with the title sligthly wrong - "om" instead of "och". Strange.

125AnnieMod
Aug 8, 2011, 1:01 pm

>124 prussia_cove:

Done. Is it still missing from the author page now?

126prussia_cove
Aug 8, 2011, 3:11 pm

>125 AnnieMod: No, now everything is fine. Thank you!

127theapparatus
Aug 8, 2011, 8:44 pm

Thanks.

Got a "new" laptop today so hopefully I won't be getting folks to do the combining that I should be doing. Need to dig out a mouse though.

can someone find the correct home for this please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11600960

128theapparatus
Aug 8, 2011, 8:47 pm

In can't edit my previous post.

Another "go nuts" suggestion:

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

you're going to have to check versions and editions on those but I see quite a few dupes. Please note that some are workbooks and shouldn't be combined.

129fdholt
Aug 8, 2011, 9:06 pm

#127 Done

My eyes aren't up to #128 tonight. If someone else hasn't looked at, I'll tackle this tomorrow afternoon.

130theapparatus
Edited: Aug 10, 2011, 9:15 am

Thanks for trying.

Can someone please find a home for this:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11612387/

I only have a few minutes left.

edit: Never mind. Looks like a large portion of their collection is like that.

131MarthaJeanne
Edited: Aug 10, 2011, 10:35 am

130> It would be helpful if they added something like (Theatre programme) to the title, instead of putting a non-review description as a review.

All we can do is add disambiguation notices when we have figured out what the item really is.

132TLCrawford
Aug 10, 2011, 10:54 am

This book, http://www.librarything.com/work/11014781/book/70661080

Does not seem to connect to its author.

http://www.librarything.com/author/clerclouisp

I do not have a clue what to do with it.

133MarthaJeanne
Aug 10, 2011, 11:30 am

Cases like that are due to the single owner changing the author. If you click on recalculate title/author it will change to the author that was finally chosen.

134TLCrawford
Aug 10, 2011, 1:19 pm

Thank you, I had another ready to ask about. Worked like a charm.

135fdholt
Edited: Aug 10, 2011, 3:23 pm

#128

Worked at bit at this. If anyone else want to help, it would be appreciated. Will get back to this after some rest.

Also I checked First Search for some of the combinations which they say are the same but I was hestitant and uncombined several things that I had combined. Still not sure about some others and left them.

The problem is the NSC (National Safety Council), Red Cross and other groups published titles that were the same. Sometimes I could verify that the groups were co-publishers and sometimes I could not.

Also ran into a nasty problem with the National Safety Council (US) and the National Safety Council of Australia. These were combined. I separated it out.
http://www.librarything.com/author/nationalsafetycounci
(Australia)
and put in a disambiguation notice since many of the works are actually the US Council
http://www.librarything.com/author/councilnationalsafet
Have no idea why they say Australia when the edition page of the work does not. Will try to split and sort out later.

To make it even more interesting, there is a listing for National Safety Council of Western Australia but the link goes to plain Australia. Have no idea where it is as the plain Australia page doesn't list it.

Also I need an opinion:
The US Council also has works at:
http://www.librarything.com/author/nsc
This is the same group but should they be combined? Before seeing this I did combine National Safety Council NCS with National Safety Council.

Edited for typo and clarity

136MarthaJeanne
Aug 10, 2011, 4:02 pm

Isn't this another case of more than 20 characters the same?

137fdholt
Aug 10, 2011, 4:19 pm

#136 Yes, didn't think about the 20 character problem. Will split that later and put a notice on the US one not to combine with the Australian.

138jjwilson61
Aug 10, 2011, 5:08 pm

Actually, don't http://www.librarything.com/author/nationalsafetycounci and http://www.librarything.com/author/councilnationalsafet need to combined? Neither one of them has any piece of Australia or United States in the url so either author could end up in either place. So isn't this a case where the two should be combined and then disambiguated?

139fdholt
Edited: Aug 10, 2011, 5:49 pm

#138 Not sure if they should or not and if nsc should be combined into it or not. Will wait until all thoughts are in - also in doing a title seach of all 3 authors, only 2 titles are the NSC of Australia.

Corrected typo.

140AnnaClaire
Aug 11, 2011, 1:31 pm

Empty author field, but the author is visible in the title field if you go to the editions page
http://www.librarything.com/work/9922216

Same work, main page
http://www.librarything.com/work/56629

141dulcibelle
Aug 11, 2011, 5:18 pm

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but . . .

The Southern Arcana series (http://www.librarything.com/series/Southern+Arcana) has an error. The book Crossroads (can't get the touchstone) is attributed to both Dennis Rogers and Moira Rogers. It should definitely be attributed to Moira Rogers. I can't figure out how to get the correct author with the books.

Thanks!

142jjwilson61
Aug 11, 2011, 7:12 pm

141> I see the work as attributed to Moira Rogers on the work page. Where do you see it attributed to Dennis?

143dulcibelle
Aug 11, 2011, 7:42 pm

Well - it looks like someone has already fixed the problem. Everything looks fine now.

144jasbro
Aug 12, 2011, 4:36 pm

> #140: Done.

146europhile
Aug 13, 2011, 10:03 am

#145 done

147rocketjk
Aug 13, 2011, 4:47 pm

I could do the following myself, but wanted to ask the Combiners community whether it should be done:

I'm currently enjoying Seven, a story collection by Carson McCullers that includes The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. There's no touchstone for this edition of the collection, although the work page is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/6342507/book/29193564

I realized that the content is exactly the same as The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories, which I also own: http://www.librarything.com/work/7415

Should these two be combined, or are the different titles enough to keep these as two seperate works?

148bookel
Aug 13, 2011, 6:11 pm

Please combine:
The Visit (Little Golden Book) by Joan Esley; illustrator Eloise Wilkin
http://www.librarything.com/work/848486
http://www.librarything.com/work/6259906

149Moses_Siregar_III
Aug 13, 2011, 6:18 pm

I'm new here, so I might be misunderstanding this. The first link below goes to the main page. The second link goes to a print ISBN edition, and that second link is listed with my new giveaway. I'd like that second link (the one used in my giveaway) to go to the first (main) link.

Thank you!

The Black God's War A Stand-Alone Novel (Splendor and Ruin, Book I)
by Moses Siregar III
http://www.librarything.com/work/11594577/book/76887059
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629274

150bookel
Aug 13, 2011, 11:32 pm

Not sure if you can combine these?
The Cat Who Wore a Pot On Her Head
by Jan Slepian
http://www.librarything.com/work/781622
http://www.librarything.com/work/10903626

151bookel
Aug 13, 2011, 11:36 pm

152MarthaJeanne
Aug 14, 2011, 2:55 am

151> Done

153AnnieMod
Aug 14, 2011, 6:38 am

>147 rocketjk:

Same content gets combined. Regardless of name. If all the stories are in both books and there are no strays in either, they are the same work for LT.

154europhile
Aug 14, 2011, 6:57 am

#148, 150 done

155rocketjk
Aug 14, 2011, 2:13 pm

#153> OK. I went ahead and combined them.

156liao
Aug 14, 2011, 3:19 pm

Could you please combine the following:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2109761
http://www.librarything.com/work/11623415
http://www.librarything.com/work/10162687 this last one has the author misspelled

Thank you.

157theapparatus
Edited: Aug 14, 2011, 4:29 pm

I got 156.

edit: Done.

159fdholt
Aug 14, 2011, 6:26 pm

#158 It is the same book. Clark is the first named author and Meltzer the second.

160theapparatus
Aug 14, 2011, 7:08 pm

that's what was thinking but the titles are slightly different, i couldn't make out the cover and I believe the ISBNs were different as well.

161europhile
Aug 14, 2011, 10:36 pm

yes they are co-authors

162Moses_Siregar_III
Edited: Aug 15, 2011, 12:04 am

Anyone have an idea about what I should do back at #149? I have a giveaway, but the link to the book that is in the giveaway goes to a very plain version of my book. I'd like it to go to the main page for the book (which is an ebook page, rather than the print ISBN page).

Thanks.

163MarthaJeanne
Aug 15, 2011, 3:53 am

162> This seems to have been fixed. Are you still seeing a problem?

166jasbro
Edited: Aug 15, 2011, 5:22 pm

> #147, 153, 155: On The Ballad of the Sad Café: And Other Stories, is there a need to distinguish between: http://www.librarything.com/work/7415 and http://www.librarything.com/work/6342541 ? Thanks!

> # 164: I'm not sure what we're asked to do with either Patricia Cornwell's "Kay Scarpetta" Series (your first request) or "The Immortals" Series (your second request). Is the "not really a combine" problem that these are either duplicates (for Cornwell) or mixed (Immortals)? Third ("Captain Underpants") and fourth ("Wimpy Kid") done to some extent, but still likely need clean-up (pun intended), particularly for multi-volume or omnibus records. Your fifth request (Michael Connelly, The Closers), done.

> #165: Done.

167europhile
Aug 15, 2011, 11:14 pm

#166 re Ballad of Sad Cafe: yes, they have different content.

168AnnieMod
Aug 15, 2011, 11:20 pm

>167 europhile:

Can you put a disambig note there (content list or number of stories if that is different as well)

169AnnieMod
Aug 15, 2011, 11:23 pm

>164 agneson9:, 166

The Scarpetta: http://www.librarything.com/commonknowledge/changelog.php?item=3905873&type=... for example shows what happened... it is a CK problem - I am on it.

The Immortals are two series with the same name -- CK issue again - will get this fixed as well

170AnnieMod
Aug 15, 2011, 11:41 pm

>164 agneson9:
Immortals is split (http://www.librarything.com/series/The%2520Immortals%253A%2520Tamora%2520Pierce is Pierce's). If someone wants to change these again, the Pierce's series is also on the German site with the same name so it will need change there as well.

The Scarpetta ones is fixed - there were 3 more miniseries with one book each (spaces...) -- and the original series looked full because there was CK setup on another language site that made the series look full. All of these should be fixed now.

171agneson9
Aug 16, 2011, 9:19 am

Thanks, @AnnieMod

172jasbro
Aug 16, 2011, 12:04 pm

You folks are all great. Thanks 1,000,000 (for now ... ).

173supersidvicious
Edited: Aug 17, 2011, 4:01 pm

175henkl
Aug 17, 2011, 3:21 pm

176fdholt
Aug 17, 2011, 3:56 pm

#173 Done.

2009 probably needs a canonical name to show the date. Cuod you look at it?

177supersidvicious
Aug 17, 2011, 4:12 pm

>176 fdholt: canonical title added. thanks

179europhile
Aug 18, 2011, 2:57 am

#178 done

180235711
Edited: Aug 20, 2011, 8:07 am

Please combine:

Apocriefe boeken, Statenvertaling (two "authors" are publishers, one wrote a short introduction for that particular edition; the main text is the same)
http://www.librarything.com/work/3656757
http://www.librarything.com/work/5005857
http://www.librarything.com/work/3656757
http://www.librarything.com/work/5250526

DONE

181AnnieMod
Aug 18, 2011, 8:51 pm

>180 235711:

1 and 2 done; 3 is the same as 1.... do you had a third one in mind?

183AnnieMod
Aug 19, 2011, 12:58 pm

184krazy4katz
Edited: Aug 19, 2011, 5:07 pm

I don't know how to combine these books:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9949294/summary
http://www.librarything.com/work/12517

Is it possible?

Thank you,

k4k

185jasbro
Aug 19, 2011, 5:23 pm

> #184: Yes; done.

186theapparatus
Aug 19, 2011, 6:32 pm

Could someone please take a look at this for me:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6359953

The work to work relationships are kicking out an error and the series is both book 1 and Omnibus 1.

I'd do it myself but I'm not feeling well and the Young Rich Bit, um, Republicans are being rather loud.

Thanks,
-drmike

187PhaedraB
Edited: Aug 20, 2011, 8:41 am

Here's a few that popped up:

DONE
1. American Landmarks, A Hallmark Pop up book
http://www.librarything.com/work/8289360
by Hallmark
http://www.librarything.com/work/8289360

DONE
2. City Bakes a Funny Cake
http://www.librarything.com/work/8645885
by Dean Walley
http://www.librarything.com/work/11381813

DONE
3. Gulliver in Lilliput: A Hallmark Pop-up Book
http://www.librarything.com/work/11653675
Gulliver in Lilliput: A Hallmark Pop-up Book
by Jonathan Swift
http://www.librarything.com/work/10507786
by Michael by Jonathan Swift (A Hallmark Pop-Up Book)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4341553

DONE
4. A Hallmark Pop-up Book the Night Before Christmas
http://www.librarything.com/work/3820281
A Hallmark Pop-up Book the Night Before Christmas
by Moore Clement C.
http://www.librarything.com/work/11438754
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS A Hallmark Pop-up Book
by Clement C.
http://www.librarything.com/work/8688745
THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS A Hallmark Pop-up Book
by Clement Clarke Moore
http://www.librarything.com/work/9382225
The Night Before Christmas By Clement C. Moore (A Hallmark Pop-Up Book)
http://www.librarything.com/work/3998098
The Night Before Christmas: A Pop-Up Book (Treasury Collection)
by Clement Clarke Moore
http://www.librarything.com/work/6809143

DONE
5. Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina: A Hallmark Pop-Up Book
http://www.librarything.com/work/2823182
Thumbelina; a Hallmark Pop-Up Book
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629427
by Hans Christian Andersen
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629425
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629418

DONE
6. pinocchio, a hallmark pop-up book
by Edward Cunningham
http://www.librarything.com/work/8933175
http://www.librarything.com/work/1079763

188jasbro
Aug 19, 2011, 11:08 pm

> #186: Done, I think. Please check http://www.librarything.com/work/6359953 and http://www.librarything.com/work/11653993 .

> #187: Done, except where somebody beat me to it.

189DemetriosX
Aug 20, 2011, 6:04 am

I spotted this black hole book on the list of what members are reading right now:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11628614/

I'm guessing this will be a real nightmare to clean up, if it can be done at all.

190235711
Aug 20, 2011, 7:24 am

181: Whoops. Changed it.

191jasbro
Aug 20, 2011, 7:47 am

> #190: Done.

192235711
Edited: Aug 31, 2011, 5:13 pm

Thanks. Now some French Bibles:

edit: ALL DONE

a. OT interlinear with TOB and FC ("en français courant")
http://www.librarything.com/work/11348440
http://www.librarything.com/work/9449328
http://www.librarything.com/work/9568672

b. FC with deuterocanonical books (going by title, ISBN, and cover)
http://www.librarything.com/work/2446147
http://www.librarything.com/work/11654934
http://www.librarything.com/work/4123323
http://www.librarything.com/work/11654937
http://www.librarything.com/work/1279914
http://www.librarything.com/work/1135571
http://www.librarything.com/work/6178347
edit: http://www.librarything.com/work/10268755
Doubtful case: http://www.librarything.com/work/11654934 see book details: the title says FC, the tag says TOB, the ISBN says nothing. It was formerly combined with some of the above.

c. FC without deuterocanonical books, revision of 1997:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9723060
http://www.librarything.com/work/1820386
edit: http://www.librarything.com/work/7703558

d. Same, before 1997:
http://www.librarything.com/work/10682849
http://www.librarything.com/work/9236580
http://www.librarything.com/work/1820484

e. Segond 1978 ("Colombe")
http://www.librarything.com/work/112685
http://www.librarything.com/work/1549992
http://www.librarything.com/work/8276566
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655019
edit: http://www.librarything.com/work/11655264
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655266
and probably http://www.librarything.com/work/10094137 (there was no revision in 1948)
and http://www.librarything.com/work/9449292
and separated from the big Segond work:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655308
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655309
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655311
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655314

d. TOB, revision of 1988
http://www.librarything.com/work/1677208
http://www.librarything.com/work/5844126
http://www.librarything.com/work/5878627
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655118
http://www.librarything.com/work/2202778
http://www.librarything.com/work/3963814

edit: http://www.librarything.com/work/9382205 is partially updated and should stay separate

e. TOB, original edition, most of them anyway (can't find clear information on the two ISBNs that are already combined)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1641393
http://www.librarything.com/work/4973378

f. TOB, revision of 2010 with added books
http://www.librarything.com/work/10728303
http://www.librarything.com/work/11526655

g. Segond 21
http://www.librarything.com/work/11258911
http://www.librarything.com/work/10268751
http://www.librarything.com/work/6920806
http://www.librarything.com/work/6007576
http://www.librarything.com/work/4665162

h. Segond 1910
http://www.librarything.com/work/11155384
http://www.librarything.com/work/10004176
http://www.librarything.com/work/9802557
which is actually the most common Segond version, but the larger work probably has lots of different revisions thrown together:
http://www.librarything.com/work/159160

i. Nouvelle Bible Segond (2002)
http://www.librarything.com/work/6909340
http://www.librarything.com/work/3302355
http://www.librarything.com/work/10165119
http://www.librarything.com/work/2278972

j. Segond, Nouvelle édition de Genève (1979)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655296
http://www.librarything.com/work/1147026
http://www.librarything.com/work/9449273

ALL DONE

194235711
Aug 20, 2011, 10:15 am

I am defeated. Are these really all the same work?

195theapparatus
Edited: Aug 20, 2011, 10:56 am

Can someone review these and figure out if they need to be combined or split or make into chop liver:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10738779
http://www.librarything.com/work/11498068
http://www.librarything.com/work/11653022

The third one is an audio book. Don't know if it's complete or adbridged or what. On my locked down terminal so I can't do the legwork.

Thanks

edit: AFter my first attempt to sort some sport oriented bibles, I swore I would never look at them again.

197AnnaClaire
Aug 20, 2011, 6:02 pm

Two versions of the same book. Identical titles, one edition each has the ISBN 0222013273.
http://www.librarything.com/work/11656810
http://www.librarything.com/work/11656815

198235711
Edited: Sep 1, 2011, 9:58 am

ALL DONE

German Bibles

a. Herder Bibel (2005 edition)
http://www.librarything.com/work/2030993
http://www.librarything.com/work/1696123
http://www.librarything.com/work/11446374

b. Einheitsübersetzung
http://www.librarything.com/work/4348429
http://www.librarything.com/work/6603400
http://www.librarything.com/work/5833210
http://www.librarything.com/work/5256944
http://www.librarything.com/work/6731948
http://www.librarything.com/work/8818956
http://www.librarything.com/work/10381402
http://www.librarything.com/work/10961893
http://www.librarything.com/work/11024130
http://www.librarything.com/work/4707148
http://www.librarything.com/work/8819566
http://www.librarything.com/work/4362130
http://www.librarything.com/work/1981795
http://www.librarything.com/work/2000602
http://www.librarything.com/work/1890684
http://www.librarything.com/work/1028712
http://www.librarything.com/work/1184091
http://www.librarything.com/work/1214384
http://www.librarything.com/work/4354001
http://www.librarything.com/work/4354003
http://www.librarything.com/work/4354005
http://www.librarything.com/work/4348462
http://www.librarything.com/work/4348446
http://www.librarything.com/work/4295199
http://www.librarything.com/work/4348432
edit:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11656922
http://www.librarything.com/work/11656924
http://www.librarything.com/work/11656925

c. Einheitsübersetzung, OT
http://www.librarything.com/work/8707041
http://www.librarything.com/work/9372966
http://www.librarything.com/work/4052156
http://www.librarything.com/work/4546150

d. Einheitsübersetzung, NT
http://www.librarything.com/work/1662327
http://www.librarything.com/work/4058691
http://www.librarything.com/work/4673628

e. Neue Jerusalemer Bibel
http://www.librarything.com/work/9197502
http://www.librarything.com/work/6742083
http://www.librarything.com/work/6742076
http://www.librarything.com/work/6741051
http://www.librarything.com/work/3173979
http://www.librarything.com/work/9017125

f. Revidierte Elberfelder Bibel
http://www.librarything.com/work/4370471
http://www.librarything.com/work/759298
also a study edition:
http://www.librarything.com/work/7704226
http://www.librarything.com/work/11657091
either to combine with the above or to leave separate - I don't know the policy (or if there is one)

g. Elberfelder 2006
http://www.librarything.com/work/4915030
http://www.librarything.com/work/7704234
http://www.librarything.com/work/10105365

h. Revidierte Elberfelder, NT
http://www.librarything.com/work/9595146
http://www.librarything.com/work/4405567
http://www.librarything.com/work/5556902

i. Schlachter Bibel (1951)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11657056
http://www.librarything.com/work/2284067

j. Schlachter Bibel 2000
http://www.librarything.com/work/6792725
http://www.librarything.com/work/9845697
http://www.librarything.com/work/6155272
http://www.librarything.com/work/4061243

ALL DONE

199europhile
Aug 21, 2011, 6:38 am

#195 Done. The third one is on CD. Can't tell if it's complete or not so combined it but then thought better of it and separated it again.

200theapparatus
Aug 21, 2011, 12:37 pm

europhile, thanks but can you check to see if any of the other two contained cd records? May have to check the isbns. It'll be tuesday before i cann get full access to chec myself.

someone please open up a new thread. we're at 200.

this thread is closed except for follow up on the requests above.

201theapparatus
Aug 21, 2011, 2:38 pm

New thread is here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/122451

Please post there.