Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #44

**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 #45. 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

Another opinion requested please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3750027/
http://www.librarything.com/work/8602796/

The ISBNs are different but the titles are exact. Please combine if you agree.

#2 Combined - same book. Probably isbns are hard and paper.

Thanks. Got another one:

http://www.librarything.com/work/134390

http://www.librarything.com/work/6796100

On my locked down terminal so I can't do it from here. Please check first of course.

#4 Done

Going out the door as I'm late yet again. Please loo at american aces in this author:

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

seems to be two titles maybe different as three different records.

thanks,
-drmike

#6 Using FirstSearch, I combined everything that I could. There is one Italian title that I was not sure of.

>7 fdholt: It's the Italian translation of American aces in great fighter battles of World War II. (I consulted a few Italian libraries).
I combined them.

#8 Thanks. If WorldCat does not have a uniform title and I don't know the language well enough, I don't feel safe in combining.

Still having problems with "harry hargreaves".
There seem to be 3 of him as well as a "just" "hargreaves"

Could this be what is causing the problem?

http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreavesharry/names
If NOT, I will gather ALL the links I can find and present a more polished request.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10237149
http://www.librarything.com/work/11401110
http://www.librarything.com/work/2814130
http://www.librarything.com/work/682524
http://www.librarything.com/work/11556806
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11288512
http://www.librarything.com/work/9574248
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11060672
http://www.librarything.com/work/2984183
4 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5012820
http://www.librarything.com/work/8588110

thanks

A Dutch edition of Tarzan of the Apes (#1) got combined with #11 in the series because in Dutch the title is too similar to the title of #11. I got it separated, but I can't figure out how to combine it with #1.

The separated book 1: http://www.librarything.com/work/11914927/
The real book 1 it should be combined with: http://www.librarything.com/work/4912

#10: Not sure I understand how "Willem Jans Zwalve" relates to "Harry Hargreaves," but then I only just recognize Hargreaves in the first place. It does seem something way odd is going on with this one, however; in doing touchstones, that last occurrence of "Hargreaves" actually takes us to Geraldine Pelles. I'm not currently able to tackle this bugaboo. Any takers?

#11: Done.

#12: Done.

#10 and #13 I did the original work on the Hargreaves page and aliased to harry Hargreaves, the cartoonist. LC heading Hargreaves, Harry, 1922-

Realized I didn't do CK for all my splits. Sorry about that. But I don't see a connection between cartoonist and Zwalve unless I am missing something. What happened?

#14: What happened is exactly what I don't understand.

I also did aliasing (I think) of some title from hargreaves-(1) to Harry Hargreaves, because it appeared to be needed; but now it's coming up as Zwalve -- and, as noted, at least one occurrence points to Pelles. I didn't do that, at least not knowingly! And it looks like we now have two pages for Zwalve, one with Hargreaves' picture, dates of birth and death, and several titles that should appear on the same page with his other works. Very odd indeed!

Has this becoming the Author equivalent of Stealer of Book Titles? I hope not!

#14: I have "unaliased" hargreaves-1 from Willem Jans Zwalve, p/k/a Harry Hargreaves, such that it currently should be assigned simply to Hargreaves on the main Disambiguation Page. I'm also searching LT for Authors named "Hargreaves," for likely candidates to address in correcting and combining; thus far, I have http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreaves , http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreaves-1 , and http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreavesharry . I'll update in a moment whether I find something more; thanks.

#16 Thank you, Jasbro. At this point, I don't know what to do. I have a list of first and last names to combine, fix, etc. but I think I'll wait until this is sorted out.

#17: That looks like it's all -- and Geraldine Pelles didn't come up again (nor anybody else but Hargreaves, Harry Hargreaves & Willem Jans Zwalve). Unless somebody else has thoughts or suggestions, this may be a job for ... @timspalding -Man!

(ETA: Bug Collectors thread started at http://www.librarything.com/topic/126418. Please follow-up there; thank you!)

search for 0-380-70024-7 - Ghost Way by Tony Hillerman returned it and
Salt 2: Boatbuilding (etc) by Pamela wood
Salt has mixed info on CK and Edit page

http://www.librarything.com/work/55209/book/79735228
http://www.librarything.com/work/55209/book/79735350

#19, @dragonasbreath: As before, these are two separate book records for the same work, http://www.librarything.com/work/55209 , one of which (.../book/79735228) is private and can't be viewed by other LT Members.

As for Salt 2: Boatbuilding, Sailmaking, Island People, River Driving, Bean Hole Beans, Wooden Paddles, and More Yankee Doings by Pamela Wood, searching The Ghostway's Editions page ( http://www.librarything.com/work/55209/editions ) turned up one stray copy, which was easily separated and recombined with 10 others just like it, already combined in as a distinct Work ( http://www.librarything.com/work/541266 ).

Unfortunately, it still looks like that member has ratty data, with an ISBN for Tony Hillerman's book incorrectly entered on their record for Pamela Wood's book. Since we would not, should not, cannot alter other Members' cataloging data, we live with it. At least the CK seems to have straightened itself out, but I'd welcome your confirmation. Thanks!

Just got an emergency cal from one of the churches that I help out with who swore that they werent going to need me today.

someone please take a look at these (all tabs open currently) and see if you can find them ho0mes:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11913947/reviews/79723986

oops, only one. thanks

Please combine the following ASV Bibles:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4765922
http://www.librarything.com/work/1832705
http://www.librarything.com/work/2261573
http://www.librarything.com/work/4945276
http://www.librarything.com/work/2455244
http://www.librarything.com/work/3301680
http://www.librarything.com/work/1144420

21>That seems to be the only copy. Not in search yet, as entered yesterday.

>22 markbarnes: done

23 thanks. I had about a dozen tabs open so I had assumed that they were all problem records but it turned out that that was the only one so I just left it there just in case.

thanks again. I checked the author and couldn't do anything with it as it's new as well.

Keith Robertson
http://www.librarything.com/author/robertsonkeith

This belongs on the above author's page:
If Wishes Were Horses
by Robertson
http://www.librarything.com/work/494004/summary/79754616

A different book by the same author:
The Phantom Rider by Keith Robertson

If that helps with separating the various KR's.

#18: Harry Hargreaves should be straightened out now; see http://www.librarything.com/topic/126418#3024179 . (And thanks to @timspalding!)

#26: Done.

Yeahh #27,
Finally, ALL of hargreaves works under the proper name!
Thanks for all who "helped the 'birds' combine"

PS. what was the problem?

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.it/work/9048456
http://www.librarything.it/work/5345599

thanks

#28: I don't know what the problem was, only Tim Spalding's advice, "The problem was a rather simple error. I fixed it first by using CK, but it also works now on recalculations." Once he fixed whatever that was, I "adjusted" the primary author to assist the combination. (Somebody warn me please if that was wrong!)

#29: Done.

#28 If I go to the Hargreaves page, the last three aliases still do not work.
http://www.librarything.com/author/hargreaves

I did try an author recalculate and it did not work!

I guess we now need to fix primary author in all books.

(Will not do so until Tim looks at this example.)

Edited for clarity

31> If you think that Tim needs to look at it, you should post a bug report in Bug Collectors. You may want to take a look at this thread first though to see if it's been fixed already, http://www.librarything.com/topic/126311#3021140.

Greets:

I'm on my locked down terminal so I can't combin these or check them but they look to be the same work. Can someone check them and, if so, combine them please?

http://www.librarything.com/work/2943628/
http://www.librarything.com/work/1813689/
http://www.librarything.com/work/653201/

edit: Another two if I could get someone to check them please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3266692
http://www.librarything.com/work/8826643

These two just need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11692818
http://www.librarything.com/work/10741269

> 33 (1) Done.

The 2nd and 3rd link seem to be the same, "The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet", combined, the first doesn't seem to claim to be one-day, in fact I think you can barely make out something about an 11 days plan on the cover shot.

> 33 (2) Done.

> 34 Done.

35 thanks. I cant see covers from here so if I have any doubt, I just post them here.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1620694
http://www.librarything.com/work/25872
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11501999
http://www.librarything.com/work/82272
http://www.librarything.com/work/4312306
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10900357
http://www.librarything.com/work/11294279
http://www.librarything.com/work/5391161
http://www.librarything.com/work/1672254
http://www.librarything.com/work/2670308
http://www.librarything.com/work/4117883
http://www.librarything.com/work/9199716

thanks

> 37 done

I'm quickly running out of time so I'll pass this one along:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1108594/editions

Lots of suggested in there but they appear to be all intermixed. If someone could go through get them in order please...

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10391997
http://www.librarything.com/work/18058
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/357033
http://www.librarything.com/work/8488129
http://www.librarything.com/work/11228306

thanks

#39 Looks like someone did this. #40 Done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/25872
http://www.librarything.com/work/5718272
thanks

>42 supersidvicious:: Done.

Two pairs, both part of a series.

1.
http://www.librarything.com/work/11138835
http://www.librarything.com/work/4904573

2.
http://www.librarything.com/work/4904358
http://www.librarything.com/work/8494463 (the only volume of the four with an actual author)

If Google Translate is correct, both work pairs should be combined with works in the "History of Women in the West" series. Having studied Spanish and French in the past, I can usually take a stab at guessing what should be combined, but not reliably.

>44 AnnaClaire: Done. 1. combined with vol 1, 2. combined with vol 5 after splitting/recombining of a stray vol 1 copy

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/series/Les+grands+maîtres+de+la+photo
2
http://www.librarything.com/series/Pour+la+liberté+de+la+presse
3
is it possible to change cover of http://www.librarything.com/work/4851176 with this picture http://www.fotocollector.fr/content/product_1978410b.jpg ?

thanks

Is @theapparatus on LT? I have a combining question. Thanks!

Please combine:

Surface Detail: http://www.librarything.de/work/9927769
Krieg der Seelen: http://www.librarything.de/work/11931735 (german translation)

Funeral Games: http://www.librarything.de/work/17912
Tödlicher Tanz: http://www.librarything.de/work/11930529

Thanks

48>

both done

When I click on John A. Garraty I get Barbara Potter Faust for reasons I don't know. Barbara has no books and I don't know why she is on the board

Now when I click on John A. Garraty i get him and it says he has not books. But I have two books by him:

2749. The New Commonwealth 1877-1890, by John A. Garraty (read 25 May 1995)
3278. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution Revised Edition, edited by John A. Garraty (read 12 Dec 1999)

Can anybody help?

Garraty should give you this page. http://www.librarything.com/author/garratyjohnarthur

Where were you clicking?

When I search your library for Garraty I find the two books you own.

Ah, I figured your problem out. You are using a bad touchstone. Why this name doesn't give good touchstones, I don't know. You could make a bug report. Personally, I have never had good luck with author touchstones. This one is a real mess, though.

Going to either of the books you mention will give you a good link to the right author page.

Having a hard time combining these 2 identical authors: http://www.librarything.com/author/watkinsrobert and http://www.librarything.com/author/mdrobertgwatkins

Can someone find me a home please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11935551/reviews/79927573

#54 Done
#53 Can't do it. Wonder if it has anything to do with setting the canonical name?

Or maybe because watkinsrobert is not a primary author?

A visit from the goon squad is by Jennifer Egan but a search of the title on LT brings up this entry: http://www.librarything.com/work/11893817/
but Roxana Ortega is only the narrator of the audiobook version:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/visit-from-the-goon-squad/oclc/646098945

Please combine the following editions of

The ancient world; prehistory-500 B.C. by V. M. Hillyer

http://www.librarything.com/work/11927980
http://www.librarything.com/work/11927974
http://www.librarything.com/work/9337745

These really are the same content, just republished as "The Story of Our Heritage" and "Young People's Story of the".

Thanks

#57 done - also added Roxana Ortega as narrator.
#58 done

>59 fdholt: Thanks - looks a lot better.

>59 fdholt: thanks

please take a look at #46 thanks

Just passing through Elizabeth von Arnim's page
http://www.librarything.com/author/arnimelizabethvon-1

,I tidied up some titles that are clearly not hers.
Here's the disambiguation page:
http://www.librarything.com/author/arnimelizabethvon

Some are Saint Elizabeth, others Queen Elizabeth, one is Elizabeth Gaskell, and several others are unknown. All having been catalogued with author as: Elizabeth.

The rest of the untangling is beyond my skills.

#63 First, someone combined Elizabeth and Elizabeth von Arnim. They should be separated and the books that are Arnim's aliased to her. (She wrote as plain Elizabeth for a while.) Then the other Elizabeths can be fixed.

http://www.librarything.com/author/arnimelizabethvon/names

The first item, Letters of Queen Elizabeth and King James VI. of Scotland, has a disambiguation notice saying von Arnim is the author. WorldCat disagrees, giving Elizabeth I authorship, added entry James I and editor John Bruce.

I can put on my list to work on later today if you would like.

Edited to add von Arnim page

I would like!

Thanks.

#65 On my list for this afternoon!

Update: Have done a bit - I had worked on the Elizabeth page sometime in August and assigned what I could and aliased. After that, the names were combined. Have some other titles to research but will do them later.

Please, combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2900391

http://www.librarything.com/work/11939606

They are the English and Spanish versions of the same book.

#67 done

Can somebody help with #46 per @supersidvicious' request? I would, but my bookmark to @theapparatus' super-secret-handshake / magic-decoder-ring / pixie-dust / Combiners! cure-all / new-&-improved / special-formula-elixir / thingie appears to be broken. (Frowny-face emoticon) Thanks.

My server provider got caught releasing private data to a public forum and I'm currently moving sites.

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11939388
http://www.librarything.com/work/8382077

>71 MMcM:
Done.

Dear Combiner/Separators,

I have recently started to add DVD's (for my own use only)
I am aware of the various philosophies wrt. this.
Thus I add "square bracket" DVD etc after the title...

I then try and ensure that the "video" media is NOT confused with the book.

A few questions.
When I separate an obvious NON book, I am not sure where it goes and how I then combine all the subsequent
separated out Videos etc into one work.

If needed I will ecclose an example.

Guido.

> #73: Whenever I get to the "separated" page, I typically open the just-separated work in a new browser tab and return to the existing work on my primary tab. That way, as long as I remember what separated Work is open in the new, I know what to look for and how to combine it. Of course, I've got to get the re-combining done before I forget -- and before I start chasing other combining white rabbits / red herrings.

Clues that migrate with the separated Work, such as tags, images, ISBNs, authors, etc. (but not CK) also help.

I'd welcome other Combiners' thoughts and suggestions on their processes. (Also maybe take another look at the Combiner’s Group Information, FAQ & Discussion Thread #2 at: http://www.librarything.com/topic/57164 , for combining information, discussion in general, not problems, and/or the wiki page: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Book_combining , which I've seen but not in a while.)

Thank you.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf:

http://www.librarything.com/work/158886 and
http://www.librarything.com/work/9815983

Thank you.

75> Something seems to not be working with Tolkien's author page. This shouldn't need the special method, but I guess it does.

"Secret Life of Bees" movie in need of combining :

http://www.librarything.com/work/11945736
http://www.librarything.com/work/11945747

Thanks.

#75 and 77 Done

I think that there is something amiss with the rest of the Bees stuff. Could you look at:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11945756
http://www.librarything.com/work/3045

Cover image is the film on the first.

>78 fdholt:: I combined them.

Two works, different authors but it's a corporate author. They really are the same. Neither one sees the other as a potential combination - I'd love to be able to deal with this myself but I'm stuck. Would someone (as well as fixing this) tell me the trick to combining non-potential pairs, or point me to where it tells how to do it? Thanks a million!

http://www.librarything.com/work/11909574
http://www.librarything.com/work/10960770

The second is better - more books/editions and a cover.

>80 jjmcgaffey:: I firtst combined the two authors (Sunbeam Corporation and Sunbeam Appliance Company); then I could combine the two works on the combination page.

So simple. Thanks!

Please, combine:

1

http://www.librarything.com/work/235734

http://www.librarything.com/work/4576378/book/79963717

2

http://www.librarything.com/work/9051
http://www.librarything.com/work/11854368/book/79963641

3

http://www.librarything.com/work/10591891
http://www.librarything.com/work/11930270

They are the English and Spanish versions of the same books.

4

http://www.librarything.com/work/11936617
http://www.librarything.com/work/11426884

They are the same book

Could someone find a home for this one please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11742263/

>84 theapparatus:

Got it.

Please, combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/4154949
http://www.librarything.com/work/10795101

They are the German and Spanish versions of the same book.

Please, combine:

1
http://www.librarything.com/work/344375
http://www.librarything.com/work/10756966

2
http://www.librarything.com/work/344376/
http://www.librarything.com/work/10250281

The second of each pair is an Italian version

87> Recalculating author and title makes the pages look more reasonable than they did, but they aren't showing up ohn the author page. Maybe later.

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/10863205
http://www.librarything.com/work/11723779

Thanks!

>89 Stevil2001:: Done.

>86 dcuetos: Seems someone did it.
>87 Rohal: Done.

>83 dcuetos: Done too?

>92 jasbro: Seems so.

In need of combining :

1. The Transition of Titus Crow, Brian Lumley
http://www.librarything.com/work/9180791
http://www.librarything.com/work/11953925

2. The Second Wish (Short story), Brian Lumley
http://www.librarything.com/work/11953964
http://www.librarything.com/work/11953965

3. Edge of Victory 1: Conquest by Greg Keyes
http://www.librarything.com/work/8144792 (main work)
Then a bunch of 0-copies :
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954123
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954126
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954138
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954158
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954166
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954170
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954183
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954186

#93 Done - don't think I've ever seen so many zero copies!

>94 fdholt: Thanks. Might be because 0-copies are a tad harder to have show up, and I kept tab on those as I was extracting them from the omnibus they were erroneously in.

DONE 1. The red leather diary, Lily Koppel
http://www.librarything.com/work/4760367 (Main)
http://www.librarything.com/work/10791046
http://www.librarything.com/work/8664784
http://www.librarything.com/work/10335669

DONE 2. Metamorphosis, In the penal colony, Franz Kafka
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954906 (Main, this is a version that has only those 2 short stories, still more may need extracting from "Metamorphosis, In the penal colony and other stories")
Assorted 0-copies :
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954934
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954967
http://www.librarything.com/work/11954997
http://www.librarything.com/work/11955033
http://www.librarything.com/work/11955047

>95 Jarandel:: 1, Done. 2, needs help. (Or @theapparatus?) Thanks.

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/work/950796
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80119125
2
#46

thanks

>97 supersidvicious:: 1 appears done, or not necessary. Following the second ("book") link, and then the Main Page link, gets me to a single record for the first-linked Work.

2 needs the same help as 95.2 (above). I can think of one approach, but my limitation is not knowing primary authors of individual volumes. Anybody have thoughts / suggestions to share?

Thank you.

I recently added this book to my library.

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/79909035

And it looks like its ISBN has been reissued to a book on computer programing. Is there anything that can be done to separate them?

Further to 95.2 above, please combine:

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions):

http://www.librarything.com/work/11956376
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956421
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956422
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956423

I've taken it as far as I can by separating, combining, disambiguating, adding authors and canonical titles, and recalculating editions, title/author and covers. And I have a few queries out to Members, whose ISBNs show either the Bantam Classics edition or Peter Kuper's graphic novel. Still, there's more analysis and/or adjustment to be done on all records including The Metamorphosis, and your help will be immensely appreciated. (Then maybe @Jarandel can get back to Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories -- which I have yet to catalog!)

Thank you.

#99 Separated your copy and recombined with the correct title. SHould be OK.

#100 I found 2 zero copies of 95.2 and combined. Someone did the Norton except for one zero copy which is now combined. Check all the copies to be sure I did not miss something.

In need of combining :

DONE
The Hounds of Tindalos (Short story), Frank Belknap Long
http://www.librarything.com/work/3986261
http://www.librarything.com/work/3772657

>102 Jarandel:: Done

On the Charles Dickens page Hard Times and Hard Times for These Times are treated as separate works, but they are the same. Shouldn't thye be combined?

Please combine:

DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/11717572
http://www.librarything.com/work/1904433

>105 AndreasJ: Done.

Some more 0-copies...

1. Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956504
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956689
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956942
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956955
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956956

2. Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956960
http://www.librarything.com/work/11956998

3. The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation)
http://www.librarything.com/work/17557
http://www.librarything.com/work/11957666

Please combine:

DONE
Sune Söderkvist, Kretsteori och elektronik. Övningsbok:
http://www.librarything.com/work/7141668
http://www.librarything.com/work/8220378

107> done.
Does Övningsbok: change the meaning of a title? If not there are more books in http://www.librarything.com/author/soumlderkvistsune to do.

Thank you fholt.

>101 fdholt:: Yes, thank you @fdholt. Looks good, except for the folks having NCE in their title, but ISBN from another edition ... .

>104 Schmerguls: looks like it's done.

108> The ones ending in "Övningsbok" are collections of exercises for the corresponding textbooks with shorter titles. They should not be combined.

(övning = exercise, bok = book)

Please combine:

John Le Carre's The Honourable Schoolboy:

http://www.librarything.com/work/847432
http://www.librarything.com/work/101279

>112 avatiakh: Done.

Please combine:

Noches lúgubres by José Cadalso

http://www.librarything.com/work/3512014

http://www.librarything.com/work/6163265

I added a book today, The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker. It was originally published in Dutch with the Title of De Omweg. I'm not certain if they should be combined or not, but I suspect so. I'll leave it up to you that know.

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80182341

http://www.librarything.com/work/10536868

>114 gamoia:, 115: Done, I think.

These seem like the same thing aren't they?

http://www.librarything.com/work/6518 11k copies
http://www.librarything.com/work/11850606 3k copies

#117 looks to me like these need to be combined but there are too many copies. This topic: http://www.librarything.com/topic/94262
has requests for combining large numbers and some members have been successful in doing this.

>117 agneson9: Yep, but they're over 200 copies each so would need to be combined by a member of LT staff, there's another dedicated thread for those.

Can someone please combine Cardstock Cowboys: Weird West #3: Infernal Devices (and keep it well separated from the Philip Reeve novel), please:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11963016
http://www.librarything.com/work/11963011

>120 prosfilaes: Done.

@116 - jasbro

My two titles in post 115 are sort of combined. Here's the problem

De Omweg , the original Dutch title is showing up with the new English title of The Detour as well as De Omweg, but the English language title of The Detour does not come up if I use the square brackets for it. Does that need some fixing, or is it just a matter of some hours passing?

Thanks so much!

>122 vancouverdeb: @vancouverdeb: By "use the square brackets," I assume you're meaning touchstones appearing as references to the right of our message box.

If so, that's a separate LT feature (as I understand it) , which I assume (again!) will work as expected or not according to it's own terms -- which I'm not much familiar with, and have had mixed success with myself. Trying it now, I get a completely different Work, together with a remarkable range of other Works to choose from, but none are Gerbrand Bakker's work. If for no other reason than this, Combiners are best served by cut & pasted Work URLS (like your second item in #115 above), rather than URLs referencing Authors or specific Book records (like your first item in #115).

We can maybe try again later, to see if a touchstone for The Detour comes up after caching, or recalculating, or the passage of time catches up to us. Or ... we can continue to reference De Omweg.

I'd be interested to know if other have insights to share, or can refer us to a wiki / thread on touchstones. Thank you.

Hmmm, I thought I did all of the cardstocks. Those are the rpg ones, right?

still thinking on this.

>123 jasbro:
jasbro, is this what you need?

http://www.librarything.com/topic/127136

Just this one:

DONE
The Hidden Dimesion
Edward Hall
http://www.librarything.com/work/7051105
The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
http://www.librarything.com/work/61042

(The list of potential work combinations for the latter is rather impressive, if baffling. http://www.librarything.com/work/61042/editions)

TKS

>123 jasbro:
done

What is happening to the way titles appear in LT on the 'work details' and 'book details' pages? They are beginning to appear with specific dates in brackets. This makes a nonsense of many of my catalogue entries, e.g.

The Tudors by Christopher Morris
http://www.librarything.com/work/533791/details/78358180

This book was published in 1955 and my copy is a reprint of 1960. I don't want my copy to be combined under a generic title which comes up as The Tudors (1967).

Why is it necessary to have this date information as part of the title?

yeah...
See the discussion here-
http://www.librarything.com/topic/127256

Could someone please clean up these publisher series:
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Tolstoj%2520-%2520Verzamelde%2520Wer...
http://www.librarything.com/publisherseries/Verzamelde+werken+Dostojewski

thanks

Could someone please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/3661484
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80234346
Thanks!

#132 done

> 130
Thanks for that.

>126 2wonderY: @2wonderY: Thanks! I hadn't seen that thread. I'm sure it'll help me, and I hope it will also help @vancouverdeb.

> 130: Yes, thanks for that. (You're on a roll!)

I'll try to have my combining script back up Thursday. Two hours in the morning is just not enough time to get things done right now. :(

Find me a home please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11968327/reviews/80245091

Thanks

>137 theapparatus: Done.

Please combine various editions of various volumes of Bra Böckers Världshistoria:

ALL DONE

#1
http://www.librarything.com/work/11822365
http://www.librarything.com/work/book/78849872

#2
http://www.librarything.com/work/2134268
http://www.librarything.com/work/4518848

#3
http://www.librarything.com/work/4518845
http://www.librarything.com/work/2134263

#4
http://www.librarything.com/work/7992811
http://www.librarything.com/work/4518843
http://www.librarything.com/work/2134259

#5
http://www.librarything.com/work/2400829
http://www.librarything.com/work/4518838

#6
http://www.librarything.com/work/4518836
http://www.librarything.com/work/2134254

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9945789
http://www.librarything.com/work/9603949

> 140 Done.

Books in that series still very much in need of addition of all their authors (which may still turn up some stray copies here and there on their individual pages) and refinement of their respective roles.

Series "Aschehougs verdenshistorie" http://www.librarything.com/series/Aschehougs+verdenshistorie by a good number of the same authors seems to suffer from similar scattering. Isn't it even the same series actually ? They look remarkably similar...

> 141 Done.

@Jarandel thanks.

Could someone please clean-up this series:
http://www.librarything.com/series/Essays%2520in%2520Musical%2520Analysis

and combine these
1
http://www.librarything.com/work/1004875
http://www.librarything.com/work/4391723
http://www.librarything.com/work/4391725

2
http://www.librarything.com/work/4803296
http://www.librarything.com/work/4384871

3
http://www.librarything.com/work/5272433
http://www.librarything.com/work/4354056

4
http://www.librarything.com/work/4354106
http://www.librarything.com/work/3875807

5
http://www.librarything.com/work/4354119
http://www.librarything.com/work/3141485

6
http://www.librarything.com/work/1685161
http://www.librarything.com/work/4359183

7
http://www.librarything.com/work/582726
http://www.librarything.com/work/4359206

8
http://www.librarything.com/work/11890220
http://www.librarything.com/work/9670127

9
http://www.librarything.com/work/11890231/
http://www.librarything.com/work/7601300

Thanks!

> 142: Thank you. I might do some work on the authors at some point, but I'll have to learn this whole Other Authors thing first.

>144 sneuper: Done; except #4: I am not sure about this one: #4354106 has 256 pages and #3875807 744.

>144 sneuper:.4, 146: Not sure how you found a page count on #4354106, but my LT site searches also disclose three other potential combinations for Musik des 20. (zwanzigsten) Jahrhunderts:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1986729
http://www.librarything.com/work/3268212 and
http://www.librarything.com/work/9124426

Can anybody advise further about http://www.librarything.com/work/4354106 from the single record? (I can't.) Thanks.

>147 jasbro:: I found it in bernbol's catalogue. According to that catalogue it was published by Kindler in Munich. Using that information I found in Worldcat that this is the German edition of Twentieth century music by Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt.

I combined the works.

Please combine
Mad About the Oscars: 38 Best Picture Winners (and Losers!)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11982004
http://www.librarything.com/work/917018

>149 bonne1978:: Done.

There's lots of multiples on this series page: http://www.librarything.com/series/Geronimo+Stilton
including the below that need combining (unsure if I found them all, maybe foreign languages if they're just a direct translation?). The only author given, though fictional, is Geronimo Stilton so yes, place on that author page. I've seen one of these books (good read too, if a few minor inaccuracies about details) and that's the only author given in the book. The author page explains who the author really is, but still use Geronimo Stilton.

a) The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid (Geronimo Stilton, No. 2)
http://www.librarything.com/work/95113
http://www.librarything.com/work/11125146

b) Paws Off, Cheddarface! (Geronimo Stilton, No. 6)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1274601
http://www.librarything.com/work/11389805

c) Red Pizzas for a Blue Count (Geronimo Stilton, No. 7)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1064056
http://www.librarything.com/work/10487623

d) The Mona Mousa Code (Geronimo Stilton, No. 15)
http://www.librarything.com/work/96329
http://www.librarything.com/work/7831276

e) Watch Your Whiskers, Stilton! (Geronimo Stilton, No. 17)
http://www.librarything.com/work/95118
http://www.librarything.com/work/10244261

f) Shipwreck on the Pirate Islands (Geronimo Stilton #18)
http://www.librarything.com/work/813335
http://www.librarything.com/work/4341790

g) Surf's Up, Geronimo! (Geronimo Stilton, No. 20)
http://www.librarything.com/work/813319
http://www.librarything.com/work/4341796

h) The Wild, Wild West (Geronimo Stilton, No. 21)
http://www.librarything.com/work/813326
http://www.librarything.com/work/8088507/ (same book?)

i) The Secret of Cacklefur Castle (Geronimo Stilton, No. 22)
http://www.librarything.com/work/813324
http://www.librarything.com/work/4341801

j) Valentine's Day Disaster (Geronimo Stilton, No. 23)
http://www.librarything.com/work/813322
http://www.librarything.com/work/10320301

k) The Search for Sunken Treasure (Geronimo Stilton, No. 25)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1933186
http://www.librarything.com/work/9180081

l) Wedding Crasher (Geronimo Stilton 28)
http://www.librarything.com/work/2083977
http://www.librarything.com/work/10150733

m) Down and Out Down Under (Geronimo Stilton, No. 29)
http://www.librarything.com/work/2495592
http://www.librarything.com/work/5537451

n) Valley of the Giant Skeletons (Geronimo Stilton, No. 32)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4546795
http://www.librarything.com/work/9146105

o) Geronimo and the Gold Medal Mystery (Geronimo Stilton, No. 33)
http://www.librarything.com/work/4978206
http://www.librarything.com/work/7003372

p) Geronimo's Valentine (Geronimo Stilton, No. 36)
http://www.librarything.com/work/7848679
http://www.librarything.com/work/9989556

q) The Race Across America (37)
http://www.librarything.com/work/8073792
http://www.librarything.com/work/11253207

r) Geronimo Stilton #1: The Discovery of America (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels)
http://www.librarything.com/work/8826610
http://www.librarything.com/work/10902902

s) Geronimo Stilton #2: The Secret of the Sphinx (Geronimo Stilton Graphic Novels)
http://www.librarything.com/work/8848378
http://www.librarything.com/work/10902904

t) The Kingdom of Fantasy (Geronimo Stilton) (all numbered 201 assumably the same?)
http://www.librarything.com/work/9291833
http://www.librarything.com/work/9683607
http://www.librarything.com/work/5152149
http://www.librarything.com/work/10563060
http://www.librarything.com/work/5289974

u) GERONIMO STILTON: CUARTO VIAJE AL REINO DE LA FANTASIA
http://www.librarything.com/work/9831845
http://www.librarything.com/work/9286571

v) Fantasia V
http://www.librarything.com/work/10266801
http://www.librarything.com/work/10703622

w) The Quest For Paradise
http://www.librarything.com/work/9790348
http://www.librarything.com/work/10526684

x) De drie musketiers (numbered 300, same or not?)
http://www.librarything.com/work/8351412
http://www.librarything.com/work/8351429
http://www.librarything.com/work/10576789
http://www.librarything.com/work/9368285

y) Alice nel paese delle meraviglie (numbered 400, same or not?)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11256123
http://www.librarything.com/work/10576715
http://www.librarything.com/work/5085291
http://www.librarything.com/work/9638131

>151 bookel: Done I think.

d) One work is not the same, left uncombined.

t) Combined some, left others alone, the 201 number was obviously a catch-all for several works by the person who did the first series run-through.

x) Combined the Three Musketeers, left the others alone, the 300 number was obviously a catch-all for several works by the person who did the first series run-through.

y) None are the same, one "Sunken treasure" combined with relevant work, the 400 number was obviously a catch-all for several works by the person who did the first series run-through.

Thanks for checking!

These books are the same:
http://www.librarything.nl/work/820161
http://www.librarything.nl/work/777348

>154 mene:

Done.

Insight Guides' guide to Japan:
http://www.librarything.com/work/2101443
http://www.librarything.com/work/11988905

...and Peru
http://www.librarything.com/work/6244870
http://www.librarything.com/work/1462998

156; 157

Done

Thanks.

Found a pair for Thailand, too.
http://www.librarything.com/work/11988969
http://www.librarything.com/work/6916110

>159 AnnaClaire:

Done

Nepal
http://www.librarything.com/work/7595076
http://www.librarything.com/work/4860557

New Zealand
http://www.librarything.com/work/7628654
http://www.librarything.com/work/1514093

I've started using a sub-author for these. (Split off a few other larger chunks from the same "name" as well.)

>161 AnnaClaire:
Done

1. Buenos Aires
http://www.librarything.com/work/7628660
http://www.librarything.com/work/5254698

2. Canada
http://www.librarything.com/work/7627251
http://www.librarything.com/work/5625753

3. Chicago
http://www.librarything.com/work/3233838
http://www.librarything.com/work/7627281

4. Chile
http://www.librarything.com/work/7628674
http://www.librarything.com/work/1271949

1. Cuba
http://www.librarything.com/work/1918396
http://www.librarything.com/work/7628689

2. Czech and Slovak Republics
http://www.librarything.com/work/7615416
http://www.librarything.com/work/602606

1. Istanbul
http://www.librarything.com/work/1852662
http://www.librarything.com/work/7627112

2. Peru (or, Déjà Vu)
http://www.librarything.com/work/1462998
http://www.librarything.com/work/7629155

3. Philadelphia
http://www.librarything.com/work/2554845
http://www.librarything.com/work/7627660

4. Seattle
http://www.librarything.com/work/7627687
http://www.librarything.com/work/72054

These three are all the same book. I can't seem to combine them, probably due to multiple authors...
http://www.librarything.com/work/1015141
http://www.librarything.com/work/6409186
http://www.librarything.com/work/672594

#166 done

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

163-165: I am working on the Insight series, so I'll combine these. If you find more stray Insight Guides, just put them in the series and I'll find them!

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11395265/
http://www.librarything.com/work/9298864/

>170 shadrach_anki:
Done.

>168 agneson9:
I'll leave that for someone more familiar with Poe.

>169 SimoneA:
I'm getting back to that now but I think I can handle further duplicates, thanks to that shiny new tool you gave me. I tried it out on some duplicates in the Access Guides series.

Not sure why I can't get the second author (Bruce W. Hozeski) to show up when I search to combine (it may have something to do with the fact that all he's got are works on which he's an "Other Authro"):

http://www.librarything.com/author/hozeskibruce
http://www.librarything.com/author/hozeskibrucew

Thanks!

>168 agneson9: Cleaned up some, but there's probably some more fine-combing of ISBNs needed.

All copies from the first work that blunted stated "and other stories" and such equivalents were moved to the generic "The Murders in the Rue Morgue and other stories" work when then didn't coincide with a more clearly identifed set of stories,

The second work wasn't combined with the first, since the stories in it ARE identified (the 3 Dupin tales : The Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Mystery of Marie Roget / The Purloined Letter).

>172 nathanielcampbell:

Yep - LT was thinking that one of them has no works. Done now.

The Pit and the Pendulum and other stories, main and 0-copies
http://www.librarything.com/work/11992588
http://www.librarything.com/work/11992861
http://www.librarything.com/work/11992838

Need combining.
Thanks

>175 Jarandel:
Done.

Same problem as my request in 172:

http://www.librarything.com/author/hartcolumbaosb
http://www.librarything.com/author/hartmothercolumba

These problems are arising because of "Other Author" changes. Is there a trick somebody can teach me to fix these myself instead of having to post them here?

Thanks!

EDIT: DONE

You could wait for Tim to fix the bug. Otherwise, I think the trick might be to change the author to a Main author temporarily so he's added to the search index and can be combined (although I think the search index is only updated overnight Maine time).

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80453794
http://www.librarything.com/work/9209696

It's the same story, but the first one is the oversea edition.

thanks a lot

>178 jjwilson61:: I just tried that trick with another author and it does seem to work. With the case in 176, I just broke down and manually added placeholder books to each author so that I could get them all combined (I turned up several other variations in the meantime). Thanks for the advice!

>179 Ameise1:: Your first link ( http://www.librarything.com/work/book/80453794 ) is only a Book record, not the Work. If you go to the Work's Main Page for that book, you'll get the same Work record as your second link ( http://www.librarything.com/work/9209696 ). Unless, of course, somebody beat me to your request and has already done the combining. (Thanks!)

Please separate:
http://www.librarything.com/work/317988/workdetails/80109274

There are 8 Barbara Swell cookbooks listed as the same work but they are 8 distinct works:

Log Cabin Cooking - 978-1883206253
Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks - 978-1883206376
The Lost Art of Pie Making Made Easy - 978-1883206420
Children at the Hearth: 19th Century Cooking, Manners & Games - 978-1883206345
Mama's in the Kitchen: Weird & Wonderful Home Cooking 1900-1950 - 978-1883206390
Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking: Rural American Recipes and Farm Lore - 978-1883206413
Take Two & Butter 'Em While They're Hot: Heirloom Recipes & Kitchen Wisdom - 978-1883206321
The First American Cookie Lady - 978-1883206499

>181 jasbro:: I did combine them, but forgot to post it here.

182> Also seems to be done. I recalculated the cover which got rid of the extra ones.

> 181 and whoever has done it. Thanks a lot

> #183: Yes; thank you, @henkl.

Next, please combine:

Philip Wylie, "The Answer" (in SEP Reader):

http://www.librarything.com/work/11993496 (zero-copy)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11999932 (1 copy),

and consider whether these should also be combined with Philip Wylie, The Answer:

http://www.librarything.com/work/365738

Thank you.

Could someone combine the following please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1779785
http://www.librarything.com/work/10777447

and another set:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3559194
http://www.librarything.com/work/2369407

Thanks

187> First was done.
Second done.

>188 MarthaJeanne:

That was me - sorry - started and had to run.

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/11962980
http://www.librarything.com/work/92322

thanks!

190: Done.

186: Still need assistance with:

Philip Wylie, "The Answer" (in SEP Reader):

http://www.librarything.com/work/11993496 (zero-copy)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11999932 (1 copy).

Thank you.

Can someone find me a home pleae:

http://www.librarything.com/work/10405474/reviews/80572734

on battery thanks

192> done.

193. thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/12010102
http://www.librarything.com/work/1983515

(See the disambig notices or my thread in this group for more information, if you need it.)

@g026r, those have more than 200 copes in each and requires staff intervention.

Please post your request here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/95602

edit: The "thread in this group" being referenced:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/127814

Yes, it;s a mess.

Ah crap, I thought I had grabbed the right thread. Thanks.

Before we get to 200, can somebody please help with my requests in 186 & 191? Thank you.

>198 jasbro:

Done.

Not sure they need to be combined in the big work (not full version from what I can see) (and yeah - I first combined them then changed my mind). All should be set now.

> 199: Thank you, @AnnieMod!

And, with that, THIS THREAD IS CLOSED.

Please post further requests to Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #45, at http://www.librarything.com/topic/128109#

See you there!

You know -if you let it get to 200, we can use the new "Continue this thread" feature which will link all those threads nicely;)

These should be combined:

Signers of the Declaration: Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Editor: Robert G. Ferris

and

.Signers of the Declaration; historic places commemorating the signing of…
by The United States of America

I don't know how to do the numbers as others do, but I hope this is enough so you can combine the two

> 202 Done

>202 Schmerguls: Your touchstones point to the same work, the "numbers" we need are the urls of the pages for each individual work to be combined, as shown in the browser address bar.

Searched copies I could find and combined into this work : http://www.librarything.com/work/332636

*cough*

Folks we're done here. Please see above and remember to smile at your bellringer today. :)

> Thank you again, AnnieMod; I hadn't focused on that nifty little link / tool at the bottom. Is there a way to fix it now, or do we wait 'til next time? (Reply on my Profile page may be best.)

> 205: It's uncharacteristic of you to call someone a "ding-a-ling"; in my experience, you're more thoughtful (& creative) than that. (Good to hear from you. Hope you're well, but you should see a doctor about that *cough*.)

OKAY FOLKS; MOVE ALONG!

Um, the "ding-a-ling" is in a reference to my bellringing for the Salvation Army. That wasn't directed towards anyway although I don't see it up above so I'm not sure.