Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #43

**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 #44. 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

Benjie Engine
by Louise Lawrence
http://www.librarything.com/work/10811195
(note: title spelled incorrectly, should be Benjie Engie, and author missing Devine.

combine into

Benjie Engie A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book by Louise Lawrence Devine
http://www.librarything.com/work/1532680

The British author Louise Lawrence did not write this.

> #2: Benjie Engie Done.

Did you also intend to do something with A Rand McNally Junior Elf Book ( http://www.librarything.com/work/3197648 )? That looks like a lump-it-all combination of records with only the Publisher Series name for titles. At best, I expect they can only be split and recombined (or maybe auto-assigned) to their respective Authors -- which actually is probably what should happen to them. At least that way we get closer to accurate record combinations.

I would welcome other responses -- and defer. Thanks!

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>4 prosfilaes:: I agree.

:O

(I'm actually tempted to write that as my review for Ready Player One but that's been done too many times before.)

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1710152
http://www.librarything.com/work/11735216
http://www.librarything.com/work/6795741
http://www.librarything.com/work/11045453

thanks

>7 supersidvicious: Done.

Hello,

This page:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8375678

is wrong. The work is trying to be entitled "Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory", but right now it has a bogus title. I don't have rights to fix it.

There are two sub-pages:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8375678/book/45530409
http://www.librarything.com/work/8375678/book/48329490

The first has the right title (although *the title of the web page* is wrong) and the second is wrong.

Thanks.

It was combined with another book so I separated them.

Okay, so I'll be more explicit when deleting a request I found I could do from the editions screen.

Can someone please combine:
The Complete Book of Elves by Colin McComb
http://www.librarything.com/work/107815
http://www.librarything.com/work/990882

>11 prosfilaes: done

3, re: 2, I copy/pasted the titles and main page URLs into the message. Looking at the second, I notice what I did not notice at first, that part of the title is in square brackets. I did not ask for anything to be done with it, only what was done. Thanks!

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/work/1060356
http://www.librarything.com/work/8530166
2
http://www.librarything.com/work/6429243
http://www.librarything.com/work/4499923
http://www.librarything.com/work/7444194
http://www.librarything.com/work/1451372
http://www.librarything.com/work/2482922
http://www.librarything.com/work/517541

thanks

could someone combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/170438
and
http://www.librarything.com/work/1116444
thanks!

> #14: Done (last night -- sorry for the delayed reporting!)

Could someone combine these copies of Paul Gauguin's Writings of a Savage? Thanks in advance.

http://www.librarything.com/work/532709
http://www.librarything.com/work/11246299
http://www.librarything.com/work/1721764
http://www.librarything.com/work/3377710

I never read Shatner's stuff but I recall some of his works got made into comic books as well. I'm looking at this:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8673103

and wondering if it needs to be combined into this:

http://www.librarything.com/work/72431

thanks

edit: Reference on the comic books: http://www.librarything.com/work/11540113

Not sure if this is the right place for this issue, but I'm sure someone will let me know if not...

The Commonknowledge for one version of Kafka's The Metamorphosis (https://www.librarything.com/work/5473) contains the following disambig note: "The Bantam Classics edition contains additional content, essays and commentary on The Metamorphosis. Do not add/combine with the other editons."

So, um, where _is_ the Bantam ed? That's (roughly*) the one I've got, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, not even pulling up everything with Kafka's name on it and checking all the other Metamorphosises... Did I miss it?

(* the one I have is the 1972 "Bantam Literature" edition, ISBN 0553121731, "translated and edited by Stanley Corngold.... {which} also contains Kafka's letters, entries in Kafka's diaries and ten critical essays." FWIW, Worldcat turns up next to nothing with that ISBN, but in LT it's apparently associated with the above-linked work.)

>19 Collectorator: thanks.

> 22 From other threads I gather the Kuper is a graphic-novel adaptation; neither do I have the Julio (mine is an English trans by Corngold...).

Thanks, though.

> #20: I think Tek-War and William Shatner Presents ... are two different things. See: http://isbndb.com/search-all.html?kw=tek+war and http://isbndb.com/search-all.html?kw=tekwar&x=0&y=0

> #21: For your ISBN, see http://isbndb.com/d/book/metamorphosis_a25.html . At a minimum, I'd say your ISBN (and any other, apparently similar records) should be re-separated from the lumped-in Work, and combined as a discrete Work of their own with new Disambiguation Notices (maybe ALL CAPS, BOLD, ITALICS, AND UNDERLINED?). And the same would apply to Kuper's graphic-novel -- a delightful Work in it's own right I'm sure (if that's possible for adaptations from Kafka), but definitely not KAFKA. Does this help at all?

If http://www.librarything.com/work/8375678/book/48329490 is to be kept, what is its ISBN number?

More generally, what is the policy of LibraryThing on nonexistent books?

>26 alimosina_overflow:
The work you linked to has an ISBN* and appears to be a legitimate book.

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* Note that the "N" in ISBN stands for "number" -- as in International Standard Book Number. The Wikipedia page for "ISBN" redirects to "International Standard Book Number."

Another to combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9870277
http://www.librarything.com/work/5127253

>26 alimosina_overflow:

Why do you think that it does not exist?
And keep in mind that not all books have ISBNs :)

>28 I-_-I:

Done

>26 alimosina_overflow:

PS: Depends on the definition of non-existent. Basically if a user has it, it exists.
The only non-allowed thing is spam - anything else is allowed.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/8292607
http://www.librarything.com/work/8050030
http://www.librarything.com/work/1577043
http://www.librarything.com/work/3600740
http://www.librarything.com/work/9791495
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7014140
http://www.librarything.com/work/9297599
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1189486
http://www.librarything.com/work/10292002
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/2757738
http://www.librarything.com/work/865329
5 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5314671
http://www.librarything.com/work/9044774

thanks

26, 27

The ISBN listed doesn't belong to that book, though. There does seem to be a problem with that book.

However, we just leave it alone.

>31 supersidvicious:
Not so fast for 1. There are two versions of this book - the first one is for the so-called "Kernighan & Ritchie C" (or K&R C); the second one is ANSI C. Which are different. And combining them together makes as much sense as combining all Stephen King books together.

Which by the way is clearly described in the disambig note on two of these books - if someone bothers to read them (I did after I typed the above) :)

So I will see where the three singles need to go but the two main ones should stay separate.

==
1 is taken care of. Two works remain separate, all spare copies went where they are supposed to (based on comments in users' catalogs, ISBNs and what's'nots when not clear)

>31 supersidvicious:

2 - Done

3 - one of those is the Big Golden book, the other is the small Golden book. These are different. Even if the covers here are mismatched and we probably have books in the wrong part of the split

4 - Done

5 - Done

>35 Collectorator:

Then why do we have two series for them?
And even in the case you are showing the big and the small ones are not combined.

Maybe we need a separate discussion on these?

>29 AnnieMod: Thanks AnnieMod.

> #37: "... phasing out the Golden books as a series." Are we substituting a Publisher Series, or something similar?

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/work/5764073
http://www.librarything.com/work/8046012

thanks

>40 supersidvicious:
Done

>42 Collectorator:

Then what did you mean with phasing out?

> #42: Duplication fixed, the hard way. Since any Series of more than one item would be plural ("Books," not "Book"), all six http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Golden+Tell-A-Tale+Book records are now in http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Golden+Tell-A-Tale+Books , which already had (only) one. (Now, if there were only a way to protect and encourage further Publisher Series idenficiations along the same lines ... .)

...as well as point anyone from the now empty collection to the new one. :(

(ie: There's no description field...)

I see a couple other titles mixed in here:

http://www.librarything.com/work/192613/

I'm brain dead. Can someone look at them please?

> #46: You do make life interesting! But nobody ever said life with biblioholic OCD would be easy. Working on your search results ... . Done! But could use some help with combinations, and I suspect there are separations needed too (e.g., at least one pop-up). Please see: http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Golden+Tell-A-Tale+Books (and http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Merrigold+Press+Tell-A-Tale+Books )

> #47: Walt Disney's Bambi is a good case in point, with four apparently distinct Publishers Series identified (thus far): http://www.librarything.com/work/10900052 . I suspect multiple Publishers Series is a part of Editions & Expressions, at least for now. (See also http://www.librarything.com/topic/109523 , and http://www.librarything.com/topic/119703 ).

> 25
OK, I've managed to separate out (I think) all the Metamorphosises with the Bantam ISBN from the others, although it seems there are a few that still *call* themselves Bantam though they have different ISBNs...

However, there's also this guy, whose extra title-bits seem to keep the system from finding & combining: https://www.librarything.com/work/8511919/
(The extra title-bits are in the manner of advertising text on mine at least: they shouldn't be part of the title.)

I'm on my locked down terminal so these need to be check before combining.

Please combine these:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3970269
http://www.librarything.com/work/584655

http://www.librarything.com/work/11210802
http://www.librarything.com/work/3067246

Thanks

Arse. Some bugger has combined Edward St Aubyn's "Some Hope" with "Some Hope: A Trilogy". The former being "Some Hope" on its own, the latter containing "Never Mind", "Bad News" and "Some Hope".

It was clearly correct at one point as the series data field gives both 1-3 and 3.

The lumped work is currently at:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7611871

2 to combine:
Pound Puppy, The Puppy Who Couldn't Remember
http://www.librarything.com/work/2983762
http://www.librarything.com/work/2094724

2 to combine:
The Puppy Nobody Wanted (Pound Puppies)
http://www.librarything.com/work/6324198
http://www.librarything.com/work/2004719

2 to combine:
Pick of the Litter (Little Golden Readers/Pound Puppies)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1914787
http://www.librarything.com/work/8377153

> #48: Looks like it's taken care of. Is that right?

> #50: Looks like your stray has found its home. But what's the difference(s) between http://www.librarything.com/work/11842095 and http://www.librarything.com/work/5473 ?

> #51: Done.

Jasbro, looks like 48 hasn't been done. I stil see at least 2 title sin there. I'll get to it in the morning. thanks though for looking at it.

> #52: How's this?

Some Hope (Novel), http://www.librarything.com/work/11843915

and

Some Hope: A Trilogy (also identified in the Series and Disambiguation Notices as The Patrick Melrose Trilogy), http://www.librarything.com/work/7611871

Anything with an ISBN got recombined according to WorldCat's description for that ISBN, except where the Member's title said "A Trilogy" notwithstanding a "volume 3" ISBN, on the theory that a title (being more likely deliberate) should trump an ISBN (which may be calculated, presumed, or -- quite often -- just plain wrong).

(P.S.: Tried adding title-touchstones, but no luck ... .)

I had started on 48 at work last night, but got busy and had to stop. I'm doubting I'll have time to complete it tonight, so if someone can continue it would be appreciated.

>61 jasbro:

Looks good, many thanks. Hopefully, if some ISBNs have ended up in the wrong place, the disambiguation notice will make sure they get separated out and moved across properly this time.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11390663
http://www.librarything.com/work/8639569
http://www.librarything.com/work/3958505
http://www.librarything.com/work/30576
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1560101
http://www.librarything.com/work/3330766
http://www.librarything.com/work/8558537
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5487745
http://www.librarything.com/work/5487746
thanks

I'm sorry but I'm not feeling good today.

I think that this person:

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

Is author #1 on this record:

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

or at the very least many of those titles between the two can be combined.

Can someone check onb those for me please?

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/series/Lucky+Luke
thanks

Two versions of The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century.

http://www.librarything.com/work/467689
http://www.librarything.com/work/10539155

>69 AnnaClaire:: Done.

On battery with laptop on lap. can someone check this author and find correcthome:

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

edit reminder to self: http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=florist&searchtype=work&se...

>71 theapparatus:: Combined Dian Chambrlain with Diane Chamberlain, and then combined the two books listed under Chambrlain with their counterparts under Chamberlain.

> #68: Done what I can, for now. But it looks like the Series still needs a good bit of checking, separating, and recombinating. Thanks!

(1) Can someone combine the Underground Companion by Loren Coleman
http://www.librarything.com/work/2572167
http://www.librarything.com/work/3191288

and

(2) Bukedo al vi: mikronoveloj
http://www.librarything.com/work/9092348
http://www.librarything.com/work/10898341

> #74: Yep. Done.

Could use some help with a Frankfurt School clean-up:

1) Dialectic of Enlightenment
http://www.librarything.com/work/9068
http://www.librarything.com/work/11522964
http://www.librarything.com/work/419349

2) Aspects of Sociology
http://www.librarything.com/work/1587247
http://www.librarything.com/work/10049931

3) Aesthetics and Politics
http://www.librarything.com/work/1146902
http://www.librarything.com/work/3300477

4) Man on His Own
http://www.librarything.com/work/2514402
http://www.librarything.com/work/4707924

5) The Democratic and the Authoritarian State
http://www.librarything.com/work/1698465
http://www.librarything.com/work/8368361

6) The Critical Spirit
http://www.librarything.com/work/2600305
http://www.librarything.com/work/2793371
http://www.librarything.com/work/1217461

(Edited to add #5 and 6)

> 59 -- that's the difference I was talking about to begin with: https://www.librarything.com/work/11842095 (the Bantam Books edition) has significant content not found in https://www.librarything.com/work/5473 (the generic Metamorphosis work), including critical essays and assorted letters and diary entries of Kafka's.

Or, in the words of the Disambiguation Notice on the generic work, also quoted in my post #21 above, "The Bantam Classics edition contains additional content, essays and commentary on The Metamorphosis. Do not add/combine with the other editions."

David Mack needs to be looked at as it appears #1 and #2 have been intermixed. I don't think they both have done Star Trek novels.

Or have they?

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

And when you get over there, please combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9548791

http://www.librarything.com/work/6256585

thanks

The "Jack of Fables" Series needs your organizational expertise: http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=jack+of+fables&searchtype=work...

Also, to follow-up on Gift of Friendship and Gift of Friendship: A Collection of Warm, Beautiful Thoughts about the Love of One Heart for Another from our last thread ( http://www.librarything.com/topic/123666#2941786 ), Peter Pauper Press confirmed by e-mail to me today that they in fact published two different books with substantially the same title, 18 years apart -- http://www.librarything.com/work/163135 and http://www.librarything.com/work/2626865 . I've added CK / DA to each record.

Thank you!

I just discovered a user who adds in all her books WITH ALL CAPITAL LETTERS for some reason.

...as I'm going out the door for the night.

Could someone run through this author and just combine the works please:

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

thanks

>76 I-_-I: done

Thanks sneuper.

This book is correctly combined
http://www.librarything.com/work/3171855/summary
But of the two possible titles it has the wrong one (it should be Micah and Nahum not Micah and Nehemiah)
How do I go about fixing it?
Thanks

>83 eclecticdodo: I added the correct title under " canonical title" . That did the trick.

> #77: Thanks for your response, @infinitebuffalo. Maybe I looked too quickly, or was seeing results of a bad combination; but it looked to me like both of those were the Bantam Classics edition, including all the extras. Please let me know if I can do anything to protect & preserve appropriate distinctions. (I still think we need Editions & Expressions ... .)

> #78: I think I was messing with the "David Mack" / "Mack David" assignments and divisions at the same time as somebody else. If so, apologies. But I think it's largely straight, except for a "Mack David" that it seems should be revised to "David Mack." Unless there's another, better way, a private message (sent) may take care of it. Oh, and the combination is done, along with a few more.

Thanks sneuper

Thank you to whoever did 80.

> #79: I've taken the Bill Willingham & Matthew Sturges Jack of Fables Series about as far as I can without some better understanding of: the overall Series organization / structure; how similarly numbered volumes, numbers or parts relate to one another; and how this Series is connected to others, particularly The Great Fables Crossover Series (a/k/a the "Fables Issues," http://www.librarything.com/series/Fables+Issues ?), the The Literals Series ( http://www.librarything.com/series/The%2520Literals ). Your help (and corrections) will be appreciated; thank you.

I've been trying to separate the Harry Potter Schoolbooks box set from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them but I can't seem to make it work. I've gone through the list of editions about 8 times and separated all the ones with ISBN 043932162X (which is the box set) but they are still showing as combined. Harry Potter Schoolbooks contains Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them but I don't think they should be combined since Quidditch Through the Ages is also in the box set.

Can someone fix this or explain to me what I'm not doing?

#88 Worked on this again - I recall doing this once before. Could you check this:
http://www.librarything.com/work/945765
CK did not seem to right itself.
When I separated out Latch key, there is no CK there:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11860005

This one is a mess but I just got out the individual vols. here.
http://www.librarything.com/work/33815/editions
Cannot face trying to figure out what needs to be with what.

There are other things that I thought I had fixed before: like a title that had differing vols. I am sure I separated out this one but vols are mixed again:
http://www.librarything.com/work/434863/editions
Sigh!

Sorry in advance if this is silly, but LT's changed quite a bit since I last did anything more complex with it and I don't want to end up accidentally splitting all the books into different works or something.

-My book
Capturing the Esscence: Techniques For Bird Artists, by William T. Cooper
Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-17626-1, first printed 2011
(http://www.librarything.com/work/22800/details/79168167)

-is for some (ISBN 9/13 confusion-related?) reason squished in with
A Religious History of the American People vol. 1 & 2
Yale University Press, first printed 1972

http://www.librarything.com/work/22800/

Could someone please separate them?

ETA: DONE, thanks fdholt!

#92 Separated. Should be OK now.

Opinion times:

From the titles involved, I think these two authors are the same:

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

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

Also I just combined these to get this:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10005274/editions

I'm now wondering if that's a computer program (tutor 7) as well as tutor 7th edition which is probably this:

http://www.librarything.com/work/463253

again opionins please?

And I'm just throwing this one out because I'm too tired to deal with it:

http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?work=10945212

And I'm out of time.

I'm thinking the biology works under this author:

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

should be with this author:

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

can someone llook at these polease as I'm out of time.

Also:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2004427/editions

Lots of different things in there.

have fun. :)

edit: And now I;m going home.

> #90: Not sure I understand the problem; they look separated to me. There is at least one Fantastic Beasts record with ISBN 0439284031, which I think actually goes with the set; but that Member's title shows Fantastic Beasts only, and omits Quidditch. Without knowing more about that specific copy, I'd leave well enough alone.

> #94: I like "automagically"!

> #95: On your first question, it seems we could reasonably combine most of the Mr. Pratt titles with Samuel Jackson Pratt titles, and let the best author win. There may be one left, at which point we could consider aliasing.

On your second question, WorldCat says ISBN 0930713818 ( http://www.librarything.com/work/463253 ) is actually a 1985 / 1994 videotape / cassette / book combination, Basic Reading Tutor Training Workshop. Don't know that it helps much though, 'cause there's precious little info available on the other Work.

> #97: You're probably right. Again, can we combine same / similar titles, at a minimum?

> #98: Doing ...

There are a number of books in the Monster Books series that need combined. I expect that something could (should?) be done about some of those authors as well.

Done, thank you sneuper

>100 Avron: combined them

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Gli+albi+di+Pilot
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Kelly+Green
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/The+Quest+for+the+Time+Bird
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Valerian
thanks

>102 supersidvicious: done

Greets:

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9305071

http://www.librarything.com/work/7633050

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

#104 Done

105 Thank you. :)

Can someone combine these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1506060/

http://www.librarything.com/work/7632895

thanks

Got handed a freebie at the book festival today, and found that it has a split personality here on LT:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9334841
http://www.librarything.com/work/11450246

!107 and #108 Done

http://www.librarything.com/work/2979199 has single volumes mixed in, which probably ought to be separated out. Thank you!

> #98: Doing ... Done (all I think I can).

> #110: Done. (Hey, that's me!)

http://www.librarything.com/work/155504 is a mixture of "The further adventures of Lucky Starr" including Lucky Starr and the big sun of Mercury / Lucky Starr and the moons of Jupiter / Lucky Starr and the rings of Saturn, and Oceans of Venus and Big Sun of Mercury. I've just separated out one, so I'll toss this out for someone to work on.

> #111: Done, I think.

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/work/11274562
http://www.librarything.com/work/980831
thanks

The recently-published, OUP, hardback Collected Ghost Stories, M. R. James, ISBN-10: 0199568847, ISBN-13: 978-0199568840 appears in combination with what looks to me like a number of quite differing M. R. James collections - http://www.librarything.com/work/63602/editions/79273973.

I've looked at it a couple of times with the intention of doing some separating, but the sheer scale of the job puts me off. Any gluttons for punishment here?

ETA - Is there any detailed guidance on short story collections on the site? It seems to me that two books containing exactly the same stories, but with differing other stuff - introductions, for instance - should be regarded as different works. Looking at the some of the combinations, I suspect others see things differently. Which is one reason why I haven't separated any.

>114 alaudacorax: My take on it would be that unless the paratext is the real point of a particular edition, or is very unusually extensive and/or somehow very notable (gets quoted, maybe years later, and in someplace else than in reviews of the work itself), there just might be more interest to joining books with the same "main content" for the sake of the social linking with related readers and reading suggestions, than in keeping them separated for the sake of exacting precision.

Wouldn't do it deliberately, but wouldn't be shocked if it was done, either.

#114: The general rule is that "Editions. The Dover and Signet editions of Alice in Wonderland are the same work. Ditto normal and 'deluxe illustrated editions.'" New introductions don't make a new LibraryThing work.

Can someone combine An Even Scarier Solstice: The HPLHS Solstice Carol Songbook, please?
http://www.librarything.com/work/6250241
http://www.librarything.com/work/9433498

and

The Book of The Smoke by Paula Dempsey
http://www.librarything.com/work/11515261
http://www.librarything.com/work/11593553

The Gibbs are fictitious characters and is part of the subtitle (see WorldCat.org here). Real author is Jacqueline Jackson. Please combine:
Missing Melinda : by C. Gibbs and O. Gibbs
by Jacqueline Jackson
http://www.librarything.com/work/1547806
http://www.librarything.com/work/686418

118 Done.

What do others think? Should the first and third books on this page be combined?

http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=jacksonjrdej

Also I have done what I can on this page http://www.librarything.com/author/jacksonj but more research might make it possible to do more with it.

> #113 & 117: Done.

I have just split author 'Victor'. Some works were aliased onto the Victor Appleton II page - http://www.librarything.com/author/appletonvictor

Would someone who knows more about Tom Swift books than I do like to put the remaining unknowns in their correct places? Thanks.

laptop shut down. please look and combine graphic novels

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

> #123: @theapparatus: Not sure what you're looking to combine here. Can you elaborate, please?

124. I'll get it. I noticed it as the laptop was shutting down and wanted to get it out there.

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

http://www.librarything.com/author/barnagcopybor I think is that same (Hungarian) author, but with a problem in importing accented characters. I get an error message when I try to combine them.

>126 MarthaJeanne: After I separated a zero-copy edition with author Barna, G©Łbor from the work Búcsújáró és kegyhelyek Magyarországon this work appeared on the page of barnagbor. Barnagcopybor was left with 0 works.
I re-combined the zero-copy edition and the work stayed on barnagbor's page.

127>Ha! Thank you. I never looked at editions on that book. Probably recalculating would have done the trick.

Need an opinion on the two Indian gambling books please:

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

Feel free to combine them if you feel they're the same. The ISBNs are different though.

> #129: Done (combined). Each ISBN takes you to the same record on WorldCat.

For combining please:

Political Power: USA/USSR by Zbigniew Brzezinski
http://www.librarything.com/work/299133
http://www.librarything.com/work/10955860

Odyssey of the West III
http://www.librarything.com/work/7233521
http://www.librarything.com/work/10188552

Odyssey of the West IV
http://www.librarything.com/work/7233523
http://www.librarything.com/work/6596799

Could someone please research (and combine if they are) if these two titles are the same work, thanks!

http://www.librarything.com/work/1841324 (The Runaway)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1927521 (Runaway Girl)

I have a pretty old copy of Runaway Girl...I'm thinking it may have been re-issued as The Runaway.

133> It looks as though the original Australian title is The Runaway (1957) and the US title Runaway Girl 1962. They have very similar descriptions in World Cat so I have combined them. After separating out The Runaway by Gilbert Morris.

Whoops, found earlier dates. Back to CK.

I need some advice: this looks like the book with the six stories is mixed with the individual stories. What do you all think? Should this be separated?
http://www.librarything.com/work/11791367/editions

134> Normally I'd say yes, but as it it the author who has done this, the question ends up do we want this one book padded, or the author page?

> #131: Done.

> #134, 135: I would also be inclined to separate records for individual stories, to the extent they may be entered that way. As it is, not every "Work" is the same as the others. Is a private message of inquiry to the author/member in order?

Could someone please look at the Dewy the cat book and gather them together:

http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=dewey+cat&searchtype=work&...

I'm not feeling well tonight.

Thanks jasbro!

Here's another - all the same work:

Philosophy, science, and method; essays in honor of Ernest Nagel
http://www.librarything.com/work/7851610
http://www.librarything.com/work/5068824
http://www.librarything.com/work/3092653
http://www.librarything.com/work/2680798
http://www.librarything.com/work/1834102
http://www.librarything.com/work/10257989

>137 theapparatus: Done I think, the books left seem to be genuinely different or adapted/abridged versions.

139: Done

Combining writers:
Bill Cleaver has only one book listed Where the lilies bloom (230 copies), but it is a collaboration with his wife, Vera Cleaver, who also has 250 copies of Where the lilies bloom listed. There are also copies under Cleaver, V&B, and there is an author entry Vera and Bill Cleaver and one under Bill Vera; Cleaver Cleaver.
http://www.librarything.com/author/cleaververa
http://www.librarything.com/author/cleaverbill
http://www.librarything.com/author/cleaververabill

These writers have been combined before but I think some fixing on particular book titles is needed as Where the lilies bloom is their most famous book and the combined entry shows only 1 copy.

#142 I combined all the copies of Where lillies bloom including a few more strays - even though WorldCat says Vera is the first named author, Bill wins since more members have him listed as author. I suspect Amazon data may be responsible. So I added Vera as an extra author on the book so it will appear on her page.

As far as the two books listed under both authors, there is no way to move to Vera or Charles's page; however, if it is OK, I can add both authors under the other authors listing.

Edited for typo

#143: Thanks, I don't own any books by these writers but did hear a podcast about them a few weeks ago, so knew that they collaborated on the books. Today I wanted to link to the Lilies book in a post I was making and opened up the 'can of worms'.
I think it would be fine to add them to the 'other authors' listing.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10466844
http://www.librarything.com/work/7092840

thanks

I'm falling asleep so I'm going home.

Volume 1 of the Doctor Who programing guide is isbn 0426290429

http://www.librarything.com/work/115329/

It has a white 3D image on the front

~ and ~

Volume 2 of the Doctor Who programming Guide WHo What Where, etc is isbn 0426201426

http://www.librarything.com/work/572106/

This one has the multiple faces of the actors on it

There seems to be some intermixing between the two.

Also please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8065694
http://www.librarything.com/work/7224605

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/8065695
http://www.librarything.com/work/7224620

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

Now I'm going home.

http://www.librarything.com/work/11310468
http://www.librarything.com/work/894259

And I get a surprise blood work so I'm stuck in town for 3 more hours. *sigh*

148 done.

Working on the rest.

147 does as well. Someone else is going to have to do 146 as I have too many tabs open to keep track of them all. Thanks

>141 r.orrison: Thanks r.orrison

Two more to combine please... thanks in advance.

Two Innocents in Red China
http://www.librarything.com/work/433937
http://www.librarything.com/work/6287699
http://www.librarything.com/work/3463107

Against the Current: Selected Writings
http://www.librarything.com/work/170263
http://www.librarything.com/work/11582475

Could someone please combine these two:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7882890

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/79490590

Thanks

151, 152: Done
146: I moved all the 426s out of Volume I, and all the 429s out of Volume 2. I think that's it.

Please combine
http://www.librarything.de/work/10225214
http://www.librarything.de/work/5143523

Thanks

I get a problem in merge my translation book "O Egiptologista - Arthur Phillips" with original work "The Egyptologist".
My book don't appear in combine list.

My book http://www.librarything.com/work/book/79361576
The Egyptologist page http://www.librarything.com/work/45115

I'd like Technocracy: Progenitors combined please.
http://www.librarything.com/work/239356
http://www.librarything.com/work/11892367
http://www.librarything.com/work/11892368

It's a little wonky, since it's also part of an omnibus, and several people have listed it with the ISBN of the omnibus.

And
The Gehenna Press, The Work of Fifty Years
http://www.librarything.com/work/2933794
http://www.librarything.com/work/11491426

>154 paulstalder: done
>155 hrjunior: done
>156 prosfilaes: done

> #143, @fdholt: How do we add someone "as an extra author on the book so it will appear on (his/)her page"?

jasbro, that's a beta feature for which you need to be a member of the Board for Extreme Thing Advances group. If you want to be a member of that group just send Tim a message.

Greets:

I'm sorry but I;m tied up with a project tonight. Can someone find homes for these please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11891884/

http://www.librarything.com/work/11891868/

Thanks

160> Got the first one.

> #159, @jjwilson61: Thanks for the explanation. For now, I'm happy with "the substance of things hoped for, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen." Like The Promise of Rest, the promises of Editions & Expressions and "adding extra authors" are tantalizing in themselves. Right now, what I most need is (a) stars back on the LT Local page -- http://www.librarything.com/topic/122213, and (b) serious cataloging time. (So, what am I doing here?)

> #160: Got the second one. (Oh, yeah ... that's what I'm doing here!)

This got labeled as spam. Can someone find it a home please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10257373

Dear group,
I am having a blond moment.
Not sure how to combine these 2 books.
Both are omnibus (containg vol. 1-3) by glen cook

http://www.librarything.com/work/438708

http://www.librarything.com/work/11044722

Thanks, Guido.

PS. Should I return my silver "gong" for combining?

> 163: Got it.

> #164: Done; but please check that it's right. Thank you.

If someone is really bored, they can do a search for printing as a title. There's a lot of records with 'first printing' and the like that need to be combined.

Hundreds of them.

I have about 9 tabs open myself flipping through keywords that I'm trying to get down before Panera closes for the night.

I started working on this one, but I am confused as to how to solve the problem.

http://www.librarything.com/work/40091&titleauthorredo=3306352408

The title of the anthology is Scottish Brides but comes up as the work called "Gretna Greene" which is a short story contained in the anthology.

Could someone play around with it? There seem to be a lot of short story singletons mixed in with the anthology title, if that makes sense.

Thanks!

Thanks #164,

Still having problems with the following versions of the same author

http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreavesharry
http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreaves

I have split the books from "hargreaves" (2nd link)
into those I know to belong to "harry hargreaves" and the rest. Now I would like to combine those "hargreaves" books with "harry hargreaves"

Discovering all sorts of new options but thought I had better leave this to the experts.
If you have time, tell me what you did.

Thanks, Guido.

169: Having done the splitting you should be able to go back to the "edit the division" page, click on "Alias divisions to other authors" and there say that Hargreaves (1) is Hargreaves, Harry. I've done this, and the appropriate words show up on both pages, but the works aren't showing up on http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreavesharry like they're supposed to. Is this a new bug?

#170, perhaps it's a latency problem. I'll just wait a day..
Just also noticed there is a 3rd. "hargreaves" (from the search for author) who also has some of the "bird" books.
I am getting confused!

>172 Collectorator: done

Is #168 resolved?

Also, 169-171 still seem to be an issue. (At least I can't figure it out ... .)

Finally, opinion time -- Do we combine:

Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( http://www.librarything.com/work/837 )

and:

Wicked with Bonus Material: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( http://www.librarything.com/work/11745700 )?

(I would say, "Yes, combine them.")

Thanks to all!

Yes #175,

169-171 are still UNRESOLVED.
Thus
http://www.librarything.com/work/4098505/book/37899245

should be combined with "harry Hargreaves" but were not.

Opinion time please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10679086/
http://www.librarything.com/work/9073586
http://www.librarything.com/work/183887/

Please combine if you feel it's warranted.

Looks like 168 is completed! Thanks!

Hi

I'm trying to combine "Agatha Christie: Sort kaffe" with "Agatha Christie: Black Coffee" but the page with Agatha Christies books just comes up empty. Probably a time out. How do I deal with that?

179 The links to the two books in question would be helpful. Many of us have ways to deal with such without resorting to the author page.

I can't get these two author record to combine as it tell me that the authors have no records when i do so. Could someone get them added together please and then the books?

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

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

I'm quickly running out of time.

#181 Combined the titles since I could not get the authors to combine either.

Please Combine, they appear to be the same:

The Mind of Adolph Hitler - The secret Wartime Report (Why the Evil genius acted the way he did) by Walter C Langer
LC# 72-86336
w foreword by William L Langer
Afterword by Robert G Waite

http://www.librarything.com/work/132618/book/79625142
http://www.librarything.com/work/132618/book/79625217
http://www.librarything.com/work/10283416/book/79624145
http://www.librarything.com/work/132618/book/79625211
http://www.librarything.com/work/10283416/book/79625244
http://www.librarything.com/work/10283416/book/79625258

#2
Please combine:

The Winds of Altair by Ben Bova

http://www.librarything.com/work/342086/editions/79625766 (159 members)
http://www.librarything.com/work/342086/book/79625763 (160 members)

they are showing as duplicate isbns when I added them both. Now off to delete one.

184> since they have the same work number, they already are combined.

> 183 Those 6 URLs are only 2 works http://www.librarything.com/work/132618 and http://www.librarything.com/work/10283416, which I've now combined. There's no need to clutter your requests with book-level URLs that are actually already combined into a same work.

> 184 They're already the same work (http://www.librarything.com/work/342086), as you can see if you mentally trim the book-specific ends of the URLs

> 185 Done.

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11111402/editions
http://www.librarything.com/work/10829130/editions

#188 Done

Could someone move out the copies of Planetes. Vol. 4.1 in this record:

http://www.librarything.com/work/116639/editions

and move them to the correct one please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/640783

I'm in the middle of a project and can't do it.

>190 theapparatus: Done

Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon's Sassinak needs combined

http://www.librarything.com/work/18931/79657641
http://www.librarything.com/work/18931/book/79657626

> #192, @dragonasbreath: As before, these are already combined. The LT Work is identified by the common, base URL, http://www.librarything.com/work/18931 ; everything after that only identifies the record of a specific book in somebody's library. (Is it yours?) No further combining is possible.

Unfortunately, they're also "private books," which means most LT Members can't see them; otherwise, I might be able to tell you something more about them.

Please let us know if you have questions, or how else we might help. Thank you!

Somehow, two of the books of author Brett Davis have became entangled with author Nancy Davis. The books, The Faery Convention and Hair of the Dog, are listed under both authors. Within my own library, the books are listed under the correct author. At the top of the page, they are listed under Nancy Davis' name. I checked the editions listed on Nancy Davis' page and many are listed under the name of Brett Davis and/or have the same ISBN number as the Brett Davis edition.

Hair of the Dog
http://www.librarything.com/work/902325/book/79672186

The Faery Convention
http://www.librarything.com/work/472645/book/79672137

Brett Davis
http://www.librarything.com/author/davisbrett

Nancy Davis
http://www.librarything.com/author/davisnancy

Thanks

very late for volunteerism. can someone check this record for meA:

http://www.librarything.com/work/412992/editions/79665367

SHOWS THAT IT HAS POSIBLE combos (excuse caps)

>194 Collectorator: done

Could someone combine

1 Kate Elliott - Cold Magic
http://www.librarything.nl/work/9198849
With
Kate Elliott - Koude Magie
http://www.librarything.nl/work/11890366/79503064

2. and Peter James - A Perfect murder
http://www.librarything.nl/work/9397069
with
Peter James - De perfecte moord
http://www.librarything.nl/work/11867432/book/79501817

3. And Peter James - Dead men's grip
http://www.librarything.nl/work/11100418
with
Peter James - Dodemansrit
http://www.librarything.nl/work/book/79501480

Both the Peter James's (2 and 3) are the same a this one http://www.librarything.nl/author/jamespeter-1

I hope my explanation is clear. If not, please say so.


Thanks.

I'll open a new thread in a second.

Opinion time please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4162486

http://www.librarything.com/work/8727492

Different ISBNs but same title and the authors' name(s) look like a mass of two different ones put together. I'm on my locked down terminal so i can;t check or see the covers.

Please combine if you agree.

Thread closed. Please only post to this thread with a follow up to a previous posting.

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#200 Same books, different edition with author name different - got married? I would combine.

202> Thanks. Can you please go ahead and combine them? I'm on my locked down terminal and can't do it from here.

#203 Done

thanks :)

> 195

Separated out the Cindy Davis one as it was a genuinely different book.

It appears that Brett & Nancy Davis may have collaborated on some books. Got Brett Davis to show as second main author for all editions for those two books.

Did some splitting on "Nancy Davis" for those persons that appeared rather clearly different with a bit of search, but some work left, probably at least 1 author for the romance novels unless one of the others already id'ed also wrote romance.

> 199 Done.

Someone may want to run through this thread and see what still needs to be done. Things got a bit confusing here this time around.

I'm on a little tiny screen the size of a half of a paperback which makes it hard for me.

I am desperately trying to seperate my copy of Peter Pan:

http://www.librarything.de/work/6252/details/79702707 (ISBN: 0140320075, Puffin Book)

from its work and combine it with "Peter Pan and Wendy / Peter Pan"

http://www.librarything.de/work/8232145

because it's the novel, not the play. Can somebody help me?

>210 ElBarto: Done, I think. But I'm not sure if the works Peter Pan and Peter Pan and Wendy should be separated. According to this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy Peter Pan and Wendy is the original title of the work that came to be known as Peter Pan. So, my guess is that http://www.librarything.com/work/6252/summary and http://www.librarything.com/work/8232145 should be combined.
Any opinions?

I actually thought the original version was the play and what came afterwards was the Disney version.

This really should have been in the new thread though. Oh well....

#180 Thanks. I'll find the work numbers next time. Some kind soul seems to have combined the two works, so my problem is solved for now.

>211 sneuper:, 212: Barrie first wrote a play about Peter Pan ("Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"). It was published in 1904. In 1911, Barrie made a novel out of it ("Peter and Wendy", in later releases also called "Peter Pan"). Obviously, the play and the novel should be separated. Work 6252 should only contain the play and work 8232145 should only contain the novel. But this is very hard to achieve because both works are published under the same title.

From message 201:

Thread closed. Please only post to this thread with a follow up to a previous posting.

New requests go here:

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#196: Looks done.

#198: Done.

#208: Done, I think.

See you at the new thread!!

Hi,

I can't merge this comics books by Alan Moore (the correct one),

http://br.librarything.com/work/book/80384465
http://br.librarything.com/work/82859

Thanks

>217 hrjunior:

Done.

PS: We have a new thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/126353

@hrjunior please take a second and review the first post in the thread. Some of us use an automated system to do these and your first link that you gave will cause problems for us.

Please make it easy for us to help you. :)

>219 theapparatus:

As much as I agree that it is easier, at least he posted the links and not just the titles ;)

220 Agreed but I thought I would mention it. had someone using my script and, even with the "Don't use those kinds of links" warning still tried to do it.

Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

I think it needs to be cleaned up then combined.

http://www.librarything.com/work/212739
http://www.librarything.com/work/5796795

Once again:
Thread closed. Please only post to this thread with a follow up to a previous posting.

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