Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #42 - A fish called Harry edition

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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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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

Are all these Dean R. Koontz works?

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

I don't read him....

edit: They are now. :)

Please combine:

1 Rasmus Klump og hans lillebror
http://www.librarything.com/work/11744811/book/78060237
http://www.librarything.com/work/4656882

2 Rasmus Klump bygger skib
http://www.librarything.com/work/11744777
http://www.librarything.com/work/4655696

I just got called in for bloodwork (Not supposed to have it on wednesdays) right in the middle of working on grammartroll's single works.

I did some author combining and was in the middle of combining individual works within those authors.

Can someone finish up for me please on these two?

http://www.librarything.com/author/parkerrobertb-1

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

I believe i had done most of them but with the tiny screen, it's hard to tell.

If not, I can finish them up later today.

> #3: Done. You're making a Series of these, right?

> #4: Robert B. Parker, done (I think). Need somebody else to address Dean Koontz; thanks!

I'm trying to get back into the Koontz but I can't even get the page to load. :(

Can someone look at these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/204435
http://www.librarything.com/work/5662647
http://www.librarything.com/work/5472943

They seem to be mixed together with the same ISBNs.

heh I separated some of these out from the Koontz Tick Tock novel. :)

>7 theapparatus:

The titles do match though so I think they are ok as they are

> #7: Done. (Late notice, with apologies.)

7-9) The covers and the authors didn't though with enough differences to make me concered.

Oh well. Thanks.

The covers are coming from Amazon based on ISBN. Plus Amazon tends to bundle wrong books sometimes. Oh well - we can whatever we can do. If someone's book is in the wrong bundle, they can always ask for help.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2932695
http://www.librarything.com/work/11503441

thanks

I got #12. I wonder if that single work is one of those imports gone bad with the missing author but, since it's a private collection, there's no way to tell.

Please combine the following.

http://www.librarything.com/work/11749450
http://www.librarything.com/work/11749451

Thank you very much in advance!

k4k

#14 Done

Edited for typo

Hi, can someone please fix this book http://www.librarything.com/work/9026170/summary/78134085
It should only be 'Piano Specimen Sight-reading Tests: Grade 4'

But one person has 6 copies and another person has a copy that isn't grade 4. I have tried to go to the author page but I can't find the other copies to separate it. I think it is because they haven't put the author down, which is 'The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music'

Thanks

16> Go to the editions page of the work (link in the left-hand column), you can separate editions that don't belong from there and it looks like there are quite a few that should be separated (there are Grades 1, 2, 3, and 6 mixed in there).

Please combine

http://www.librarything.nl/work/11260445 without author

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/6224369

Thanks in advance

>18 guurtjesboekenkast:

Done

18-19. We we sure about that one? Looking at the editions page as well as the covers, they seem mightly different to me.

if you say so, it;s fine though. I'm on my locked down terminal anyway...

edit: For example, I'm wondering how "Stichting Het Wereld Natuur Fonds Nederland" translates to the Worldwide wildlife federation. (That's what WWF stands for and that's their logo at the bottom of the covers.)

please combine
1
duplicates in http://www.librarything.com/series/Cartoville

by the way, do you think

http://www.librarything.com/series/Everyman+CityMap+Guides
and
http://www.librarything.com/series/Cartoville

are the same series edited by different book houses?

thanks

I think I got them: http://www.librarything.com/series/Cartoville

Looks like you did a bunch of them already. You have a 204 count on the helpers list and only 25 works listed. :)

Could someone please combine these?
http://www.librarything.com/work/11455095 by DK publishing
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/11655583 author-less

Thanks!

I got 23. :)

edit: Done. And may the block be with you. Always. :)

>20 theapparatus: Wereld Natuur Fonds (WNF) is the Dutch branch of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They use the same logo as the WWF.

Sounds good to me. Thanks

Please combine

The Wild Baby
http://www.librarything.com/work/5499825/book/78166223
http://www.librarything.com/work/387163

Please, could you combine these works?

http://www.librarything.com/work/11502872

http://www.librarything.com/work/11376579

http://www.librarything.com/work/10178741

http://www.librarything.com/work/9175690

http://www.librarything.com/work/5804556

Thanks in advance!

Wicked Broadway Cast Recording
http://www.librarything.com/work/11756567
http://www.librarything.com/work/11756502
http://www.librarything.com/work/11756483

29 done. Just to confirm, the 2003 was (well, should be) the original cast. :)

28 working on it. edit: done

edit: 27's also done.

Can someone please do me a favor and run through the harvard Lampoon author records and make sure they're combined in?

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=harvard+lampoon&searchtype=aut...

I did a couple but I'm not feeling up to it right now.

DONE

Could someone combine those ?

Arthur C. Clarke & Paul Preuss

Venus Prime 1 : Breaking Strain
Main attributed to Preuss http://www.librarything.com/work/280019
Spanish translation with Clarke as main http://www.librarything.com/work/10677343

Venus Prime 2 : Maelstrom
Main attributed to Preuss http://www.librarything.com/work/280101
Stray with Clarke as main http://www.librarything.com/work/11352938

Venus Prime 3 : Hide and Seek
Main attributed to Preuss http://www.librarything.com/work/424116/
Stray with Clarke as main http://www.librarything.com/work/11352940
Stray french translation with Clarke as main http://www.librarything.com/work/8237940

Venus Prime 4 : The Medusa Encounter
Main attributed to Preuss http://www.librarything.com/work/424546/
Stray with borked author http://www.librarything.com/work/11757214/

Thanks :)

DONE

32: Done

Could someone please combine these?

http://www.librarything.com/work/80761
http://www.librarything.com/work/8774987

http://www.librarything.com/work/510850
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629364

http://www.librarything.com/work/678826
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629365

http://www.librarything.com/work/472866
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629369

http://www.librarything.com/work/6435091
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629372

http://www.librarything.com/work/346731
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629370/book/76915281

http://www.librarything.com/work/346745
http://www.librarything.com/work/11629371/book/76915282

Thanks

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Core Rulebook by Jason Bulmahn
http://www.librarything.com/work/8946293
http://www.librarything.com/work/8804890

36: Done

I'm slowly doing 34.

edit: Done

I have a feeling that this is 2 different authors. Can someone please check for me? I'm quickly running out of time:

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

edit: Can someone also run through this editions page and make sure that it's all of the same book? It all runs together when I view the page:

http://www.librarything.com/work/297669/editions

193241665X is Wholphin No. 2: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films

1932416722 is Wholphin No. 3: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films

however, both 2 and 3 are listed as the same item when you search by the first isbn.

I can't send you the link for the combo. I saw it when I was adding the first title. It's separated in my works here, but not in the add books function.

No. 2 is at http://www.librarything.com/work/1387216/book/42515527

No. 3 is at http://www.librarything.com/work/2300199/book/42497383

thanks!

I'm hoping it's ok if I just post the link to the series page instead of the hundred or so individual links to work pages :) (although it maybe should be a publisher series instead of a regular series ...)
http://www.librarything.com/series/Daily+Guideposts
is the series, it's all sorted by year, except for one:
http://www.librarything.com/work/1101830
which has no date listed that I could see.
Thanks in advance for the help!

Please excuse me if this is a double-post, my browser died and I don't see the previous post here, so I'll try again.
The series http://www.librarything.com/series/Daily+Guideposts needs cleaning up. I hope it's ok to just post the series link instead of the hundred or so individual work links. They are all sorted by year, except one, http://www.librarything.com/work/1101830 which has no date that I could see.
Thank you in advance for all the hard work.
And should this be a publisher series instead of a regular series?

41-42: done
The 2002, 2004, and 2007 editions have two different covers, are they really the same? (I've combined them, but they could be separated)

Ahoy there or whatever. I think this author might be 2 people:
http://www.librarything.com/author/davidsonjonathan

Any opinions?

Thanks,

k4k

I've come across another two books with the same isbn.

1416534075 is the isbn for Rome 1960

http://www.librarything.com/work/5203838/book/71658521

however, Fate is the Hunter by Ernest Kellogg Gann (1961), also comes up when you try to enter that isbn.

44> Definitely. I split it and aliased Jonathan RT Davidson to the correct page. I think the CK belongs there.

I was pretty sure this couldn't really be a singleton. there are several other possible combinations, but this is the list without New or revised in the title. A wide assortment of authors - or none.

The Union Haggadah : home service for the Passover
http://www.librarything.com/work/10649644
http://www.librarything.com/work/1361391
http://www.librarything.com/work/11531952
http://www.librarything.com/work/11622967
http://www.librarything.com/work/3106906
http://www.librarything.com/work/2321708
http://www.librarything.com/work/3235580

I don't know what's going on with 40 but they're listed on the editions page with the correct volume numbers and I believe ISBNs.

I;m going ahead and combing them.

edit: There's a volume 2 with volume 3's ISBN. Per policy, I'm leaving it with the volume 2. It'll screw up the isbns but per policy, title overrules isbn.

reedit: I found some more 2's.

again: Off to do the Wholphins. There's a lot of them floating around.

edit: The Wholphins are done.

So sorry to keep bothering you, but here's another one:

0876855257 is Dangling in the Tournefortia by Charles Bukowski

http://www.librarything.com/work/125155/book/42971775

but the isbn is also listed as Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski (1972).

49, I'll move it.

edit; done

> #39: Your editions look good to me; sorry I can't advise on Thomas Friedman.

> #44, 46: Is there reason to distinguish between Voice over IP Fundamentals ( http://www.librarything.com/work/90407 ) and Voice over IP Fundamentals (2nd Edition) ( http://www.librarything.com/work/1508110 )?

> #47: Done. With lots of other moving about, too (i.e., Union Prayer Book, Union Hymnal, and variants of each). I probably got it all wrong, so please fix it if you can. Thanks!

Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook, edition 3.0
http://www.librarything.com/work/3690583
http://www.librarything.com/work/11762335
http://www.librarything.com/work/11762336

> 52 done

>43 r.orrison: I actually only have the 2011 one, I was just collecting the rest into the series, so whatever you think best for the multiple cover ones.

Could someone please combine the 2 Rogue Warrior works listed here please:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=seal+team+six&searchtype=work&...

Thanks to whomever got 55 up there.

I went though the ordeal of the Union and let me tell you, it was an ordeal.

I'm out of time. Many of the works have different volumes intermixed. You're going to have to do some separating please along with combining:

http://www.librarything.com/series/Ordeal%2520of%2520the%2520Union

edit: These two records need to be looked at also please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7768195

http://www.librarything.com/work/5447250

Looks like they're intermixed.

> #56: Done.

See what you think of the "Ordeal of the Union" Series now; not sure what (if anything) to do for Disambiguation Notices, to try and keep it straight.

On Neue Arbeit, neue Kultur, it looks like somebody had done the separations, so I combined; still, there are a few Verlage in Nordrhein-Westfalen 2003 ISBNs incorrectly assigned to the combined Work -- nothing we can do about that!

This is a question, hopefully someone can find confirming evidence (and if so place a disambiguation notice, or separate the two if needed):
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/78277648
Is the book
New world by Gillian Cross the same as The demon headmaster by Gillian Cross? (See editions.)

I've tried researching but haven't had any luck so far finding out. (I have the book New World, and there's nothing on the title page about it belonging to the Demon Headmaster series or being a republished title, etc.)

>58 bookel:
http://www.gillian-cross.co.uk/newworld.html
http://www.gillian-cross.co.uk/demon.html

Does not sound to me as the same book...

Thanks, yes they look different from the plots.

>60 bookel:

Managed to untangle the German one as well - based on the plot as well.
I think now they are cleanly separated - all covers recalculated to pull the proper ones in the proper works so I think this is done (and someone did the disambig notice while I was separating so we should be all set)

Yes, sorry, I did the disambig. for The Demon Headmaster. It may have been some kind of automatic combining error when adding the book (???) I really don't know, as when I added New World it was already combined with The Demon Headmaster. Hopefully that shouldn't happen now they're separated. Thanks for the help, I really needed an objective opinion and didn't think to check for the author's website (and not being familiar with the books). It was one I found today.

Need an opinion please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/163135/

http://www.librarything.com/work/2626865/

thanks

>63 theapparatus:

Same number of pages, same publisher, same title.... - I would say it is the same work.

63-64) The sub title is different. That's what stopped me.

What's policy on pen names? Do they get combined if the pen name is only used by a specific author? I know some pen names are a catch all for a publishing house:

http://www.librarything.com/author/colestephen-1

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

>65 theapparatus:

We combine only in 1 on 1 relationships. Otherwise we will end up combining penname1 with two different authors.
Aliasing should be treated the same way I think

For 63/64 Actually it was the same one "A Collection of Warm, Beautiful Thoughts About Love of One Heart for Another"

Should we Alias on the pair in 65 then?

63) Look at the cover though. The subtitle is different.

http://www.librarything.com/work/163135/

65> Couldn't you disambiguate the collective name by whoever actually wrote it (when you know of course). So Franklin W. Dixon (1) could be Leslie McFarlane and Franklin W. Dixon (2) could be someone else who wrote under that pseudonym.

> #63-67, @theapparatus & @AnnieMod: I vote LOUDLY for not combining these -- at least not yet.

Gift of Friendship looks like a near-generic title applied to similar, but probably not the same, anthologies. Or maybe I just need to see where the Elisabeth Deane title is more fully described, and/or attributed to Peter Pauper Press? Is she the author of a particular contribution here?

We have a number of 1960s-1980s PPP editions, including collections edited by Nick Beilenson. (No, none of them are yet cataloged on LT!) I would have to check whether this title, or anything of Elisabeth Deane is also in our collection. At a minimum, in my experience, PPP is generally straight-forward in their editions, and not given to variations in titles, subtitles and authors.

I would welcome input or feedback from others. Thank you!

ETA: I stand corrected ... sorta. Looking only for the primary title, Gift of Friendship, on www.bookfinder.com yields an absolute blech-full of options, none of which appears to have either Elisabeth Deane's name or subtitle associated with it. Beilenson's 1987 edited collection comes up as two potential variants. However, searching for keywords "Gift Friendship Collection Warm Beautiful Thoughts About Love One Heart Another" in the title field produced a number of results for -- and only for! -- Elisabeth Deane's 1969 PPP compilation of (substantially) the same title.

Still, unless somebody has the two editions to compare (maybe I do!), I'd still argue to distinguish between them. My 2¢; thanks again.

>69 jasbro:

And you might be right. :)
My search yielded 2 books - one from the 60s (and no ISBN) and one from the 80s - with the same content as far as I could say. Don't have the books though so...

Can someone combine these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10670979

http://www.librarything.com/work/6928008

thanks

>71 theapparatus:
Done

Thanks :)

> #70: Do you have a report of their respective contents?

Locked down terminal with no covers. Blah....

Check and combine please if warrented....

http://www.librarything.com/work/4027934
http://www.librarything.com/work/6754186/ Different isbns but same title

http://www.librarything.com/work/5274927
http://www.librarything.com/work/3153034 Ditto

http://www.librarything.com/work/4846400
http://www.librarything.com/work/10915217 Opinion call on that one please. 2nd work has no author or isbn.

http://www.librarything.com/work/10105272
http://www.librarything.com/work/10421820 Different isbns but both Footprints series

Thanks

Also continuing up on Bleak House DVD discussion:

I'm seeing this record as well: http://www.librarything.com/work/2361038/editions

With an isbn 1419814494

which is included in lit_chick's record: http://www.librarything.com/work/7058449/

Which is ISBN 1419828614

Can someone check on these please?

edit: Can someone combine these please?

http://www.librarything.com/work/10202279

http://www.librarything.com/work/11776144

Thanks

Another one that needs to be combined please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/6467018

http://www.librarything.com/work/8191517

edit: Also please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/5295924/

http://www.librarything.com/work/2455000/

DONE Thank you
Video of Trollope's The way we live now.

http://www.librarything.com/work/8331613
http://www.librarything.com/work/11657606

On full net now. I'll run through these. :)

edit: Done: 77B, 78, 79, 81

The question i raised in 77 still needs to be looked at please.

DONE Thank you

Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran
http://www.librarything.com/work/8789223
http://www.librarything.com/work/43188

Could someone combine this work...
http://www.librarything.com/work/8581643

...with its stray copies?
http://www.librarything.com/work/5453462
http://www.librarything.com/work/11388103

Thanks!

82: Done (someone else has done 81)

http://www.librarything.com/work/11779221/

http://www.librarything.com/work/11779250/

84> The main work there seems to be http://www.librarything.com/work/1638, but it needs a lot of work, as some editions include http://www.librarything.com/work/552922 and there are also study guides and DVDs around.

It's going to be fun actually. 0440414806 is the isbn for the book over at amazon but it's also being used as the DVD isbn as well in a couple of places.

I just did some clean up on Karen Robards as well as matched up the "i have 8 of her books" records:

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

There's about 6 foreign language titles listed that I can't match up with anything in english. "The thief with gold eyes" I guess doesn't go with the one with green eyes.

Can someone check on these please? Appears to be titles in french and spanish.

thanks

>87 theapparatus: working on it

DONE: golden eyes went with tiger's eye; green eyes went with spells of Ceylon :-)

88> Thanks. Was wondering about those.

Could someone please check t see if this work has a home with it's family?

http://www.librarything.com/work/6585626

thanks

...And if anyone wants a day project, the Red Sonja's could use some love:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=red+sonja&searchtype=work&...

>90 theapparatus:
That family didn't have a home of it's own and many of it's members were living in the wrong house.

Anyway, there's now a work for the complete tv series and I think it is fully separated from the complete screenplays book though there may still be some odds and ends.

Looks like there's lots more as well:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Fawlty+Towers&searchtype=work&...

> #77a: On Bleak House videos, I've done some research and refinement, including Disambiguation Notices and a (private) query to the LT member with an indistinguishable record. Please review, and advise of comments / questions.

> #84-85: Added Disambiguation Notices, but separation / combining work may still be needed on the primary work, http://www.librarything.com/work/1638 .

>83 r.orrison: Thanks!

Please combine:

Sapphire & Steel Annual 1981 by P. J. Hammond
http://www.librarything.com/work/4645864
http://www.librarything.com/work/11784708

Thanks!

I'll get 96. edit: Done.

If anyone thinks they can do something with this one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1027620/editions

Opinions please:

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

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

i can find the Wales one online but the Welsh one I'm striking out on.

> #98: I'd combine 'em. All indications are they're the same, but (maybe) for new editions every several years. Indeed, there are some duplicate Work records under the "Wales Tourist Board" author that probably also should be combined.

Hi Everyone,

Could you please combine the following:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11362060
http://www.librarything.com/work/35393/summary/28678495

Thank you in advance!

k4k

> #100: Done.

There's a series of young reader adaptations of the Dragonlance Chronicles, which I've put into a series http://www.librarything.com/series/Dragonlance+Chronicles%2C+Young+Reader+Adapta... . Unfortunately since each volume is based on half the original series, they're intertwined with the German original series which was published as halves. Can someone untangle the German translation from the young reader adaptation, and preferably keep intact the German series information?

We've also got a bunch of a mess with George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" Series: http://www.librarything.com/series/A+Song+of+Ice+and+Fire .

I know nothing about these books (yet) except what I see in the media or on LT; but it looks like prequels and titles of unspecified relationship to the Series especially could use the attention of Somebody Who Knows. Thanks!

I noticed that Mervyn Peake the man and his art has four separate entries if you do a search on the title.
There are two separate author entries, one entry with no author and another entry with two authors.

My copy of the book says compiled by Sebastian Peake and Alison Eldred / edited by G. Peter Winnington
ISBN 0720612845 Peter Owen Pub

Could someone with greater ability than me please combine them into one.

I just added the book to my library and my entry using Overcat has 'Mervyn Laurence Peake' as the main author.

>104 avatiakh: done, I think.

I've been working on #102; can someone combined Drachenjäger. Die Chronik der Drachenlanze 02., by Margaret Weis, please?

http://www.librarything.com/work/11788768
http://www.librarything.com/work/11788774
http://www.librarything.com/work/11788784
http://www.librarything.com/work/11788785

(And please don't remove the series. I know the theory is that German series should go to German Common Knowledge, but I'm working on it from the English side and trying to keep track it from here. If, after they're all cleaned up, someone wants to move them to the German CK, that'll be fine, but not now.)

I've cleaned up #102, except for #106. All that's left is to fix http://www.librarything.com/series/Drachenlanze%2C+die+Chronik+der and http://www.librarything.com/series/Die+Chronik+der+Drachenlanze and move http://www.librarything.com/series/Dragonlance+Chronicles%2C+German+volumes over to the German CK (though I think that a full multilingual combining would make it more than just German.)

#105: thanks

>106 prosfilaes: done

I'm on my locked down terminal so I can't see much from here.

I believe many of the editions listed for this record:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2623491/

belong to this one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/173334/

I do see one cover on the first record and it's not the Stargazer cover so I believe not all of them go over.

Can someone check that for me please?

thanks

110> done, I think.

111 Looks good to me. Thanks

Can someone take a look at these three please?

http://www.librarything.com/work/195578

http://www.librarything.com/work/11428399
http://www.librarything.com/work/11428400

Need an opinion please. Thanks

Need another opinion please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11734914
http://www.librarything.com/work/3514760
http://www.librarything.com/work/9086703

With http://www.librarything.com/work/41391

Looks like there's a couple translations and versions intermixed so I don't want to touch this one since I don't have a clue on it.

Thanks. :)

edit: Ditto:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1008230
http://www.librarything.com/work/10862114

I'm quickly running out of time while trying to finish some things up-.

The books of life are listed each at least twice if not more. They're on the author's comnbine page so this one should be easy:

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

> #113: Afraid I'm little to no help here.

I'd probably keep the two with truncated titles and next-to-no detail ("TB" and "Ig") separate, just because we can't really tell anything about them; it does look like somebody deliberately cataloged them separately, and made (minimal) effort to distinguish between them.

On the main work ( http://www.librarything.com/work/195578 ), I found several records that I'm also inclined to separate out based on title and/or author alone -- so I did! See:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11794340 ("for the System Enterprise");

http://www.librarything.com/work/11794342 ("for the Global Enterprise");

http://www.librarything.com/work/11794343 ("Projects and Cases"); and

http://www.librarything.com/work/11794346 (Systems Analysis Design).

If somebody who knows better thinks these should be recombined, please let me know. Thanks.

> #114: I'd be inclined to combine the first four, and also combine the last two. (Oh, where are "Editions & Expressions" when we really need them?!?)

> #115: Done, I think.

Two versions of Mayflower, the second of which has no author, unless you count the tags "Nathaniel" and "philbrick":
http://www.librarything.com/work/806107
http://www.librarything.com/work/10009525

118 I got it.

edit: Done. Thank you for mentioning the tags. I would have wondered about that one.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/9716698
http://www.librarything.com/work/10596812

thanks

120 I got it. :)

edit: Done plus found a zero copy record.

Here's another one for the singleton project...
http://www.librarything.nl/catalog/Pirrip

But apart from that: he's got a bunch of movies listed with the addition "Netflix" . IN his profile he says: " I also track movies I've watched with a NETFLIX tag". What's your opinion - combine them with the original movies or not?

My understanding is that the Netflix versions don't include the special features normally included with the normal DVDs.

I don't use the service myself so I couldn't tell you. Last DVD player was on the laptop and that's fried.

Perhaps someone could combine all these complete sets of Nobel Prizes in 20 vols

http://www.librarything.com/work/5165036

http://www.librarything.com/work/5130328

http://www.librarything.com/work/8156528

http://www.librarything.com/work/10947241

http://www.librarything.com/work/9497153

http://www.librarything.com/work/10484596

Thanks in advance!

>124 gamoia:
Perhaps.
http://www.librarything.com/work/10484596 :)

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/10359744
http://www.librarything.it/work/1409400

thanks

>125 AnnieMod:

Nice! :)

>126 supersidvicious:
Done

123> My understanding is that the Netflix versions don't include the special features normally included with the normal DVDs.

Well, if you watch it through insta-play then you can only see the movie itself. If you get the DVD sent to your home then occasionally it's a version of the DVD made especially for rental that doesn't include bonus features. That seems to happen more often for recent movies.

#123: I know it's part of a lengthy argument, but I don't think the special features on a DVD usually make it a separate work, especially as (unlike Norton Critical Editions) people often buy disks with a bunch of special features on it just for the movie.

>124 gamoia:, 125, 127
Perhaps someone cleaned up the whole series, numbered them and found dozens of singletons..
http://www.librarything.com/series/Nobel%2520Prize%2520Library

130> I thought that they did. I know stuff like extra chapters ot different analaysis usually does.

And then of course different edition doesn't and they're combined.

Ain't this fun? :)

I have been trying to get these on the same page for combining for 2 days without success:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11797128/summary
http://www.librarything.com/work/11796990

I suspect they are not identical, but thought they should be combined anyway?

Thank you in advance.

k4k

I'm on my locked down terminal so I can't do these. Can someone please combine them?

http://www.librarything.com/work/46718

http://www.librarything.com/work/10601029

If I could figure out how to stick my method on a flash drive, I wouldn't bug everyone about it.

Also:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10400066

http://www.librarything.com/work/19143

Thanks

edit:

also:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9507759

http://www.librarything.com/work/852462

http://www.librarything.com/work/398136

(Looking at that, you may have some other works intermixed.)

133, 134: Combining done, but it does look like there may be more work to do cleaning up http://www.librarything.com/work/398136/editions -- "The Cooking Of Vienna's Empire" and "Recipes: The Cooking of Vienna's Empire" perhaps should be separate, and some editions seem to contain both so should be a third work. I'm afraid I don't have time for that at the moment.

Just stumbled across an odd trio. Hope someone can straighten them out:

http://www.librarything.com/work/48899
http://www.librarything.com/work/4022176
http://www.librarything.com/work/1880074

The first link has the correct author. The second link has ?? as the author, but the review makes it clear that it is the same as the first. The third must be the same book, since it's tagged science fiction and the "first name" Hoyle matches up with the real author Fred Hoyle. How Wickramsinghe (presumably Chandra) got in there, I don't know. He does have a connection with Hoyle, but I don't think they ever collaborated on anything other than some articles and Wickramsinghe's PhD thesis.

135> In that Time life series of cookbooks, each volume was a description book and a smaller recipe book. If some people have entered them separately, then, yes, there should be three works for each volume.

But this would need to be done for each book in the series, not just this one.

> #136: Done.

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.it/series/Astérix

thanks

Hi,

http://www.librarything.com/work/5958188
http://www.librarything.com/work/10358171

These are the same work based on the title and cover images.

I'll get 140. :)

edit: Done.

Can someone combine The Complete Book of Gnomes & Halflings by Douglas Niles? Thank you.

http://www.librarything.com/work/239366
http://www.librarything.com/work/990887

>142 prosfilaes: done

Could someone combine these copies of "Understanding Islam and the Muslims"? Thanks!

http://www.librarything.com/work/1276642
http://www.librarything.com/work/587907
http://www.librarything.com/work/9460869
http://www.librarything.com/work/2357414

> #139: Not sure what, if anything, still needs doing here; quite possibly beyond me! (Or maybe it's just late ... .)

> #144: Done.

Is there any way to combine this with the work under the author Keith Hall (1)?
http://www.librarything.com/work/4451893&titleauthorredo=3677848311
http://www.librarything.com/work/8007103

Thank you,

k4k

ETA: I finally combined them and it seems to be sticking for now.

I may have opened a can of worms, trying to figure this one out:
http://www.librarything.com/author/ritzergeorge

I have managed to get the reader (and one of his theory books) separated out of The McDonaldization of Society but am unsure about how far to go with the rest.

There is a Thesis book mixed in as well. I would be tempted to separate that as well, due to the fact that it is a book that explains his McDonaldization theory.

The different editions... McDonaldization of Society 5, The McDonaldization of Society 6... should they be separated out as well? The original was written in 1993, and not updated until the late 2000's. the '6' book was released last year.

Any thoughts?

>145 jasbro: Thanks jasbro!

Please separate this work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/83657
Author: Henning Mankell
Title: The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries

There are 5 short stories by Mankell, as was shown in the series I created a while back: http://www.librarything.com/series/Pyramiden+-+5+short+stories (before work-to-work relationships)

Problem is, one of the short story titles is used for the short story collection. In English, the 5th is used (The pyramid). In German, the 1st is used. Might be even different in other languages, and not all short stories might be published individually in all languages.
Someone combined the short story collection (The pyramid) with the single short story of the same title. I am overwhelmed by the amount of books in The pyramid.

(nevermind this post, I figured it out!)

Of course I catch this 5 minutes after I was supposed to leave for the night:

Please split the first,, second, and v2.2 of this rule set:

http://www.librarything.com/work/29722

Very, very different between the three versions.

1st edition isbn 0943580501 cover with group of about 5 or 6 standing around a hummer with a female on the roof with a garnade launcher. kind of blackish

2nd edition isbn 155878070X/1558780718 ones a box set and the other is just a book. yellowish with another group in wierd poses

2,2 isbn 155878070X same cover as 2nd and same isbn but with a 2.2 star on the cover. not surew why same isbn but rule set is merged with traveller.

cheat sheet: http://www.waynesbooks.com/twilight2000.html

thanks

#151 Done I think.

>145 jasbro:
thanks!

152 heh Do I dare look? :D

thanks. I'll check later today. Kind of short on time yet again.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/4636462
http://www.librarything.it/work/3344590
2 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/10866023
http://www.librarything.it/work/5644412
3 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/10778197
http://www.librarything.it/work/6627922
http://www.librarything.it/work/6133502
http://www.librarything.it/work/4690886

thanks

# 155 done

I was wondering with which work to combine this one: http://www.librarything.com/work/10023060
I was thinking of combining it with this one: http://www.librarything.com/work/6346614, but they seem to be intentionally different.

By the way: any objections to combining these two authors: http://www.librarything.com/author/1053719742 and http://www.librarything.com/author/1216582215? And how do I do that, by the way, because they won't show up using the search feature.

Not exactly a combining question but i'm hoping someone can help. Brother/sister team Georges and Madeleine de Scudéry have separate LT author pages but also have one co-authored book for which they're listed as a single author: http://www.librarything.com/author/scuderymadeleineetge-2

In trying to split them, i inadvertently created a disambiguation page that didn't quite fit what i was trying to do. Rather than make it worse, i thought i'd check whether one of you fixers could lend a hand. The book in question (Artamène ou le grand Cyrus) is generally listed as Madeleine's, and there is a copy on her page that should be combined when this is all resolved.
http://www.librarything.com/author/scuderygeorgesde
http://www.librarything.com/author/scudeacuterymadelein

You can't split an author page for two authors into two different authors, that function is for a single name that refers to multiple different people of the same name (for example there are many authors named Michael Collins). I've put the author page http://www.librarything.com/author/scuderymadeleineetge back to being not split (there's only one group of two people with those names).

If you post links to the works here, we can do something about that.

It is also possible (though currently only in beta testing) to assign two authors to a single work.

>159 r.orrison: Yes, it soon became clear to me that i had totally misunderstood the "split the author" function, which is why i asked for help. Thanks. The work i was referring to has also been properly combined (thanks europhile), so we're all good here.

You're most welcome.

Hopefully a quick fix.
Dragon Wing, the first book of the Death Gate Cycle has been combined with a partial volume. Leading to an error in the work-to-work relationships section.

Someone wanna tackle this one? http://www.librarything.com/work/9680371/editions

Looks like someone used the same ISBN and changed the titles and such on a lot of these editions, so separating needs to be done.... I recognize some of them, like Clifford, but others I have no clue, and some are in Spanish which I don't know.

163: Done

> #147: I'd suggest combining most of these. FWIW, WorldCat shows 48 "Formats and Editions" from 1983 through 2011, including (it appears) 5 and 6; see http://www.worldcat.org/title/mcdonaldization-of-society/oclc/619611711/editions... . On the other hand, I suppose the Thesis book probably is a separate Work.

> #149: Has somebody addressed your concern?

> #157: I might be inclined to ask the Member(s) in ??? (or ????, as the case may be).

> #162: Not being familiar with these titles or the series, I edited the Work-to-Work Relationships to remove all existing cross-references (with apologies if I went too far). Next, I found, separated and combined four titles from Dragon Wing that each have an ISBN beginning "96385932 ... ." WorldCat doesn't recognize either of those ISBNs, but the titles on LT records for each separated ISBN were either Sárkányszárny or Sárkányszárny I. Assuming these to be the same, and to be volume 1.1 of the series, I then defined the combined Work that way in Common Knowledge. Please confirm and, if its looks OK, reassign Work-to-Work relationships as needed. Please let me know if I can help -- or if I messed it up worse than it was! Thank you.

Boswell needs your help. I can't make heads or tails of these and the "WOW, They put their soup in bowls made out of bread!" is bugging me tonight.

Someone care to look at these 10 records and see if they need to be combined. Looks like 2 or 3 but I'm sure I'm missing something.

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=boswell+grand+tour&searchtype=...

thanks

>166 theapparatus:
On it

>166 theapparatus:,167

It needed quite a lot of separating as well but now all should be squared up.

The one called BOSWELL ON THE GRAND TOUR, GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND 1765-1766 belongs to BOSWELL ON THE GRAND TOUR, GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND 1764 - it is the year that is wrong - based on http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ntando&deepsearch=grand+ - the have the Italy one as well so this should be the Germany book (that was the last one I was investigating).

Two to combine thanks:
Silly mysteries by John Peterson
http://www.librarything.com/work/8395959/summary/78750593
http://www.librarything.com/work/8670616

169: Done

How do I combine my Hebrew edition of Beyond the Deepwoods with the English edition?

Hebrew ed: http://www.librarything.com/work/11815285/book/78784949
English: http://www.librarything.com/work/173650/editions

Is the author listed for http://www.librarything.com/work/11815285/book/78784949 Paul Stewart? If so, the easiest way would be to go to that author's page - http://www.librarything.com/author/2783070162 - then click Search in the pink box on the right, under Combine with. Search for Paul Stewart and combine the two author pages together. You can then combine the works from the author's combine/separate page.

It's complicated slightly by the fact that there's more than one Paul Stewart, you'll have to do the work combining from the disambiguation page - on Paul Stewart's page http://www.librarything.com/author/stewartpaul-1 it's in the pink box on the right, under Combine/Separate Works, the link that says "Paul Stewart (disambiguation)".

Please combine:

Neon Lit: Perdita Durango
http://www.librarything.com/work/618117
http://www.librarything.com/work/2873121

Thanks!

173: Done

> #171: Ask, and done. (Thanks!)

175: thanks!

I'm going to throw this out since I'm really tired and don't want to screw something up.

I think that these are a couple of different authors mixed together because of misspellings of the last names:

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

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

I see the same titles on both lists. They just need to be combined.

thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/11817849
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/11008387

cheers

178: Done

>177 theapparatus:

There is at lease one legitimate with double t and one with a single t. So I would keep them separate and just alias the way it is already done....

180 Actually I think there's at least 4 authors in there. :)

I'm more concerned about the books that exist on both author's lists. I did a couple of them last night but, flipping between tabs got me confused and when that happens, I know I'm too tired to do any good.

I'll look at it in a couple of hours after some volunteerism that I'm really late to if no one else gets to it.

>181 theapparatus:

Then let's split and alias around :) And yeah - there are a few.
I am on my way out of the door to catch a plane so can work in that once I am back on the ground if noone gets to it.

>182 AnnieMod: Thanks. I'm more worried about the duped books.

I'm on my locked down terminal so I can't do any combining but I'll look at it later.

Please combine

The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen
http://www.librarything.nl/work/10611699/summary

with

Het stille meisje van Tess Gerritsen
http://www.librarything.nl/work/book/78816975

>184 connie53: done

>185 sneuper:: thanks.

Here's another one:
Vermist by Harlan Coben
http://www.librarything.nl/work/10660833/summary/78817571

with

Fade away by Harlan Coben
http://www.librarything.nl/work/86738/summary

177 looks to be finished. At least I no longer see any dupes.

Thanks

> 186: Done.

> 165: I don't think it my issue >149 Laia: has been addressed. (Please excuse the delay, I have internet only on weekends currently)

If somebody can tell me how to separate all of "The Pyramid" I'd be happy to recombine them correctly - I only know about clicking on each book to separate them out.

I'm back on my locked down terminal so I can't check these. They may be the same author. I see at least one title on both authors though:

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

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

That Mischief in Fez one.

thanks

edit: These need to be combined as well:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4386871
http://www.librarything.com/work/1628690

Also: these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11819946
http://www.librarything.com/work/3847263
http://www.librarything.com/work/11819942

One more please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11820288/
http://www.librarything.com/work/3847177/

thanks

Hello, I've found a Lord of the Rings volume attributed incorrectly to Guy Kawasaki instead of J.R.R. Tolkien. I've been inactive on LT, and am not sure of potentially new combining protocols. Will someone please fix this?

http://www.librarything.com/work/3520239

>190 theapparatus:,191 done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/7842358
http://www.librarything.it/work/10785319
http://www.librarything.it/work/125548
http://www.librarything.it/work/10130678
2 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/7047855
http://www.librarything.it/work/7048591
http://www.librarything.it/work/19226

thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/8051366/
http://www.librarything.com/work/1496063/

>195 agneson9:
I don't think that's a good idea as the title and ISBN match http://www.librarything.com/work/15061. Only the author matches with the work you suggest.

It's also a 0 copy work. Best leave it on it's own.

>194 supersidvicious: done

>192 carport:

At first I suspected a spam work, the guy being apparently an author of business strategy guides, which may sometime go hand in hand with less than pristine and respectful SEO practices, but if there were such, they go back further in time than the creation of the LT entry, since there *is* a borked Amazon entry of LotR with him as the author, which this user must have inadvertently used when adding their copy.

The best would be to contact this user "Thalador" who apparently has it in their library in good faith, and if still active ask if they would kindly correct the author for that book before we merge it.

Could someone take a second and ook at this uthor please:

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

been split between 1 and unknown. look all the same to me.

> #189 @Laia: I'm not aware of any way to separate LT records except one at a time. And it probably needs to be done by someone who has a bit of time, can keep track of what's separated, and be sure that all (or almost all) of the separations get properly re-combined in due course. Note: When I've done this before, it's often been helpful to first identify one, predominant edition that matches the primary record, then start subtracting away (and re-combining among themselves) the less frequent occurrences; just a thought ... . Please let us know if / when we can help once you get started.

> #199 @theapparatus: It all appears to be the same author. I know of no reason to keep them split.

I can't find anything about Jabber Jaws or Maybe Baby, but Judging by the catalogues they are in, I would guess that they are meant to be the same person. Love in a Nutshell is due to be released next year. I agree, should not be split.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4258845
http://www.librarything.com/work/4518846

They list different authors because the former has the author of this particular volume in the author field, the later the series editor.

We're at #200+

Time to make the doughnuts. :)

edit: New thread here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/124892

Please only post here with followups to the requests and questions already here. Please use the new thread for new requests.

> #202: Done.

> 200: I have internet access only once in a while right now, so it will have to wait for at least 6 months. Too bad there isn't a roll-back button as it was correct - and I even put disambiguation notices in :(

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