Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #46

**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

Addendum by AnnieMod: We will help mo matter what, it just makes it faster if we have all the information as described above :)

Hi! If I understand everything correctly, I cannot combine several books myself, but I have to ask you to do it right? Because if I can do it myself, I'd rather not bother you... I just haven't been able to find a button for it...
Anyway, I just noticed that there are three books with the same title that I believe to be the same (I got the book through member's giveaway, so I know it has two authors: C.R.Daems and J.R.Tomlin). The books are:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11470119
http://www.librarything.com/work/11658485
http://www.librarything.com/work/11613373

Thank you for combining them/telling me how to combine them/letting me know why they shouldn't be combined!

>2 zjakkelien: If you can combine them yourself, you can do it of course :)

In this case it required some authors combination first - that is why they were not showing for combination on the author page.

All set now I believe

PS: And I straightened out the Other Authors as well.

Fright Knight
http://www.librarything.com/work/475584/
http://www.librarything.com/work/4560687/

>4 agneson9:: Done.

Thank you!

Please combine:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11197561
with:
http://www.librarything.com/work/5475549

Both are the Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

>7 jseger9000:: Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11687677
http://www.librarything.com/work/11968684
thanks

#9 done

3 to combine:
Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree by David Korr
http://www.librarything.com/work/86683
http://www.librarything.com/work/11238149
http://www.librarything.com/work/3399879

11: Done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Little+Golden+Books

thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/5323467
http://www.librarything.com/work/3476692
http://www.librarything.com/work/6525839

Thanks

#14 done

The Great Acquittal
http://www.librarything.com/work/2473116
http://www.librarything.com/work/7243074

World Cat shows the authors as 'N T Wright; Gavin Reid; et al'. Further searching indicates that Gavin Reid was the editor, and that Wright was one of the contributors. Carey, probably as well, or it may be attributed to him because he was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time. I have found others like that.

>16 MarthaJeanne:: Done. According to Carey's biography on the Archbishop of Canterbury's site he is joint author of The Great Acquittal.

> 13: I found only 1 title that looked ready to combine, The Happy Little Whale ( http://www.librarything.com/work/1034396 ). Am I missing something, or has it already been done?

>18 jasbro:
there were some more, so somebody combined them thanks

http://www.librarything.com/series/Manitoba+Studies+in+Native+History

The two books in this series listed as #1 and the three listed as #3 need to be combined, please.

>20 Katya0133:
Done. Also added other authors.

Oops. Someone has made Iain M. Banks back into a single author. If anyone gets the chance to look at it before I get home in an hour, please have at it.

22 I have now separated out Iain Banks. That is a start.

Thanks. There seem to have been quite a few changes since I was last in there to clean things up.

>21 eromsted:.

Thanks.

I'm usually able to combine on my own these days but for whatever silly reason the Shadow Unit ebook combinations are just not working out for me. The following three are all the same work:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11449746
http://www.librarything.com/work/11372436/
http://www.librarything.com/work/11832344

The following are the same work:
http://www.librarything.com/work/5789501
http://www.librarything.com/work/8269815

The following are the same work:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11420560
http://www.librarything.com/work/11832343

And the following are the same work:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11832342
http://www.librarything.com/work/11457768

Thanks!

26 I've done the last three.

26 - 1st set combined

Thanks!

Oh for the love'a.... okay. I'm usually a pretty good combiner/seperator, don't really work on others stuff, but I like to tidy up stuff that I own/have read. But then there's this bleepin' The Sweet Trade by Elizabeth Garrett, which is really a pseudonym for James L. Nelson. Only problem is that the other books in the Elizabeth Garrett record aren't his I believe.

Is there a way to pry that one book that's actually his from the rest of them? (Me or someone above my pay grade... :))

I don't really want to change the author to Nelson, just want to hook in the pseudonym to his real name.

I believe you can split the Elizabeth Garrett page and combine one of the splits with the James L. Nelson page but I'd wait for one of the experts to give the details.

>30 DanieXJ:

Step 1: Split Elizabeth Garrett.
Step 2: Go again on the splitting page for Garrett, click on the second tab ("Alias divisions to other authors") and find the number under which are the books that actually belong to the one that writes as Nelson.
Step 3: Next to the line, paste the text: nelsonjamesl (basically the address of the author you want to alias into; you cannot alias into something like sharptom-1 -- you can only alias into the full author and then through the split put the books under the correct place in the split)

Save and all set.

I did it for you now, but go through the steps to see how it is done for next time :)

PS: And while I was at that, I untangled how many authors are hiding under the name (3) and got them assigned and noted.

Ah, see, I got to the split part, but then didn't know about the alias to other authors part (and now I do).

Thank you. For doing it, and now I know what to do if it comes up again. That is why this group rocks! :)

2 to combine: Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield
http://www.librarything.com/work/4269
http://www.librarything.com/work/11311905

>32 AnnieMod: - Thanks for the stepwise explanation - the aliasing split authors occurred while I was on hiatus from LT - glad to see progress made along this front!

>34 bookel: - done

Please combine Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle

http://www.librarything.com/work/12109889
http://www.librarything.com/work/12312

Probably just a simple combination, but maybe not...

My book, illustrated by David Palmer, Hymns and Songs (A Ladybird Book), is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11087757/book/71382625

On the author page for David Palmer, http://www.librarything.com/work/11087757/book/71382625, I do not see a green check mark indicating that I have this book by him, however another LTer does have it,

Hymns and Songs (Prayers & hymns), http://www.librarything.com/work/7772272.

I think the works need to be combined. Right?

Thanks!

#36 & 37 done

>38 europhile: Thanks europhile!

These authors need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/author/edwardsej
http://www.librarything.com/author/edwardsrevej

39: Done

>40 r.orrison: thank you r.orrison

Please combine this author:

http://www.librarything.com/author/ricelesleypayne
http://www.librarything.com/author/paynelesley

Could someone combine these two please?

http://www.librarything.com/work/700890
http://www.librarything.com/work/11791486

Thanks

On this author's page there are a lot of books listed in a language other than English. Granted, he's French, but since this is the English-language LT, shouldn't the primary listing for each book (if it's available in English) be in English, at the top of the lists?

I'm hoping someone here would like to make that happen!

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

Thanks!

Allyn Allen http://www.librarything.com/work/11749406 has a book listed under on the Author Page for
Irmengarde Eberle http://www.librarything.com/combine.php?author=eberleirmengarde

There is no disambig notice that they're the same author...I think it's a mistake and the Allen book should be removed.

Have at it!

Thanks!

43> No, the largest number of copies wins. Since a large majority of LT users mostly read in English, that is usually English, but not always. That page has several different languages. I was able to make one combination.

44> It is listed as another name for her, and was a pseudonym she used. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/eberle.htm I have combined in the other pseudonym she used. (See LoC entry for the only book on that author page. (http://lccn.loc.gov/42024381)

41, 42: Done
Combining authors is usually easy - from one author page, click the Search link in the pink "Improve this author" box on the right, when you find the author you want to combine in, click the combine link.

The book(s) IQ84 by Haruki Murakami seem(s) to be mixed between the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd :
http://www.librarything.fr/combine.php?author=murakamiharuki

> 48: Yes, from all indications, 1Q84 has been published in variant editions ranging from one to three volumes, as reflected by the 1Q84 "Series" at http://www.librarything.com/series/1Q84. If you see a volume (or a combination of volumes) that is out of place, please separate and recombine them appropriately. On the other hand, if somebody out there has a better understanding of the way individual volumes relate to each other, and/or to the work as a whole ("Mr. Murakami, I presume?"), please advise -- or revise our Series and its respective Work records accordingly. Thank you.

>49 jasbro:

It's a just a novel published in 3 parts (and then the first 2 got published together in a lot of places). So there should be 5 works for it - the 3 volumes, the 1-2 work and the complete work.

Combine thanks.
The lemonade trick by Scott Corbett
http://www.librarything.com/work/750353
http://www.librarything.com/work/10751094

Combine thanks. The Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick
http://www.librarything.com/work/2305485
http://www.librarything.com/work/3772948/

# 51, 52 done

Please combine:

#1 Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
http://www.librarything.com/work/2185985
http://www.librarything.com/work/10939462
http://www.librarything.com/work/9106090

#2 The Artist's Way Creativity Kit
http://www.librarything.com/work/12144502
http://www.librarything.com/work/12144513

Edit: #3 The Vein of Gold --DONE
http://www.librarything.com/work/13997
http://www.librarything.com/work/11788099

>43 SaintSunniva:, 54 Collectorator, thank you for explaining.

> 56.1, 56.2: Also done.

Please combine:

Die Blueberry-Chroniken 02. Die Sierra bebt
http://www.librarything.com/work/3172821
with
Thunder in the West
http://www.librarything.com/work/3138635

I believe they're the same work, but with different authors listed as primary (one's the more famous illustrator).

Thanks

> 59: Done

These should be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/author/fourneiralain
http://www.librarything.com/work/46299/book/11036026

> 61: Done.

Please combine:

Silver dental fillings : the toxic timebomb
http://www.librarything.com/work/10683187
http://www.librarything.com/work/12160053

> 63: Done.

http://www.librarything.com/work/1194112
http://www.librarything.com/work/1111

Thanks

#65 Done. Also found more stray copies. Author shifted to illustrator with corporate author as secondary. Does it matter?

>66 fdholt:

Hmm. I added the illustrator as the illustrator but now it's the primary author and I can't change it. If you can change it please do, but it doesn't matter a whole lot.

#67 I think it's fixed, maybe? I added the corporate author several times and it didn't take, then it did. I'll check tomorrow to see if it remains that way.

>68 fdholt:

It looks fine now. Thanks, Fianna.

these work
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/141727/covers

should be split.

thanks

>70 supersidvicious:

All of them?

#70 A lot of works with what I call trivial titles and lack of much other information are like this. It would take looking up each isbn and matching to other works or runnuing the series statement in WorldCat: see the edition page:
http://www.librarything.com/work/141727/editions
(There are matches for some of the items in the list in other works.)

A life time project for all the works involved!

Edited for clarity

#70 is done

0-copy stray of Lorelei of the Red Mist (Short story) by Leigh Brackett that needs combining :

http://www.librarything.com/work/8284537
http://www.librarything.com/work/8177310

Thanks.

> 74: Done.

Please combine:
Marie Antoniette
www.librarything.com/work/3387598
www.librarything.com/work/11898289

76: Done

All DONE.

0-copy stray of Guzman de Alfarache by Mateo Aleman :
http://www.librarything.com/work/4084623
http://www.librarything.com/work/12170232

0-copy stray of Guzman de Alfarache, Part 2/2 :
http://www.librarything.com/work/5742631
http://www.librarything.com/work/12170254

0-copy stray of El Cementerio de Los Pajaros by Antonio Gala :
http://www.librarything.com/work/12170665
http://www.librarything.com/work/12170662


Thanks.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/374060
http://www.librarything.com/work/7453969 (0-copy)
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5791517
http://www.librarything.com/work/7451950 (0-copy)
thanks

hmmm zero copies adding is resulting in the message:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/inc_workpieces_debris.php on line 242

on the editions page.

>80 2wonderY:

This shows up when you have 0 copies. Ignore it -- it is just telling you that there are no valid copies (sometimes...)

I thought it might be a signal as to why the items in >79 supersidvicious: are not combining, even though I added author names to the 0-copies.

>82 2wonderY:

Nah - shows up on 0 copies work a lot.

>79 supersidvicious:
Done.

>78 Jarandel:
1&3 done. Are you sure about 2? When ISBN/title are in disagreement, we go with the title unless if we can trace where the wrong data originated...

>83 AnnieMod: Actually ISBN 8437607094 is a 2 volume edition, so I guess you're right, unless the lister went out of their way to give their books a distinctive v. 1/2 title they should be combined with the whole work, did so.

DONE thanks. 0-copy stray of Canto General 2/2 by Pablo Neruda :
http://www.librarything.com/work/4899619
http://www.librarything.com/work/12170814

>84 Jarandel:
:) That is what I thought but did not have time to figure out what edition it is so preferred to ask.

The Neruda book is done

0-copy stray of the Easy Readers' version of Requiem por un campesino espanol :

http://www.librarything.com/work/12171245
http://www.librarything.com/work/12171277

Thanks.

>86 Jarandel:

Got it.

These two are the same work, but I'm not sure how to combine them. I can combine when through the author page, but I don't know how to get to that point. So if you want to fix them great, but can you also please tell me how so I can do it in the future. Thanks!

http://www.librarything.com/work/5772751
http://www.librarything.com/work/2534597

>88 KarenElissa:
In this case, it is even easier than usual - check the edition page: http://www.librarything.com/work/5772751/editions
:) I won't do it so you can see for yourself and do it from there.

>89 AnnieMod: Thanks! Done and I found another one that it worked on too. :-)

Please combine

#1:
The Frog and Toad Collection Box Set (I Can Read Book 2)
http://www.librarything.com/work/11566072
http://www.librarything.com/work/1937708

91: Done.

Have been separating various 1- and 0-copies of the "Torture Garden" film derived from Robert Bloch stories, that got presumably autocombined into the similarly-titled novel by Octave Mirbeau, they now need to be recombined among themselves.
http://www.librarything.com/work/12174083
http://www.librarything.com/work/12174114
http://www.librarything.com/work/12174106
http://www.librarything.com/work/12174103
There's also a couple that are attributed, erroneously I believe, to Richard Matheson, unless someone knows better they probably should be combined too :
http://www.librarything.com/work/12174067
http://www.librarything.com/work/12174097

> 93: Done.

do you think these editions should be split?
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/3967782/editions

ISBN or title is to be trusted?

thanks

#95 When I checked that isbn in WorldCat, it is for a set of books called New PM story books that include the titles named: there are packs A, B, C, etc. that all use the same isbn. In other WorldCat records, there are color levels with sets of books. Each title also has its own isbn for hard and paper. In addition, there are more than one author involved in the series. Red level is for one set is Beverley Randell, Jenny Giles and Annette Smith. If you want further info, PM me.

Based on this I would separate by title.

I always trust title over ISBN, as I make the assumption that people are more likely to enter the correct title in their catalog and ignore the ISBN, than they are to get the ISBN correct when the title is wrong.

Edited to add:
95: I've done some, but no time now for the rest.

>95 supersidvicious: Title should come first.

Maybe that was a box or set of books with an overarching ISBN and listers either didn't bother to find individual books ISBN or there wasn't one. Another author who suffers from a lot of the same confusion salad is Jack Vance "thanks" to a multivolume complete edition of his works with ONE bleeding ISBN with the resulting combination clutter >.>

Title beats ISBN any day -- people see their titles all the time; ISBNs get changed when you change covers (the Amazon ones) or come wrong sometimes)...

Please combine:
www.librarything.com/work/633364
www.librarything.com/work/12179077

Please can someone combine the following:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11174142
http://www.librarything.com/work/2454507
http://www.librarything.com/work/1335796
http://www.librarything.com/work/7846061
http://www.librarything.com/work/11252121
http://www.librarything.com/work/11506160
http://www.librarything.com/work/12126701
http://www.librarything.com/work/10642199
http://www.librarything.com/work/9863816
http://www.librarything.com/work/10561767
http://www.librarything.com/work/10530849
http://www.librarything.com/work/1870424
http://www.librarything.com/work/1619277
http://www.librarything.com/work/2225450
http://www.librarything.com/work/715627
http://www.librarything.com/work/743243
http://www.librarything.com/work/1187112
http://www.librarything.com/work/957277
http://www.librarything.com/work/4324131
http://www.librarything.com/work/4017142
http://www.librarything.com/work/4002236
http://www.librarything.com/work/3683031
http://www.librarything.com/work/3471091

Thanks in advance - it will be a lot of work, I know. There are other potential editions which could be added in, but I've tried to be conservative and only listed those I'm certain about.

I've done a few, but need to go. I'll check back later.

>101 markbarnes:

Is "Bible For Today" and "Bible the Word in Life" the same one?

101: Done
I've taken your word about being certain!

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/How+to+Draw+Manga
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/search.php?search=Memoirs+of+Dolly+Morton+&searc...

thanks

Working on 105 #1 - there are some editions with a different title, volume number, and cover already mixed in to http://www.librarything.com/work/370796 -- should they be separated out?

I've got everything that's currently in the series right, but there's probably lots more to add in if anyone else has more time. There's a great reference list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Draw_Manga

>106 r.orrison: Sorry no idea I don't own any of the books

I have a problem with a book that's been wrongly combined. It is a book that contains two works and has been combined with the first work. My problem is, I can't get the combine page to show the works, thus I cannot separate it out - I think it might just be too many works and my connection too slow.

This is my book:
Der unheimliche Weg & Elefanten vergessen nicht by Agatha Christie (The translation is: So Many Steps to Death (also known as Destination unknown) & Elephants can Remember
http://www.librarything.com/work/15514/book/81605858
The ISBN is 3704220817

It's been combined into this work: http://www.librarything.com/work/15514/workdetails/81605858

I saw it after I had changed the canonical title...

Can anyone get the combine page to actually show the books and separate out the ISBN, please?

You can do separation from the editions page: http://www.librarything.com/work/15514/editions/81605858

r.orrison, thanks, that worked.

#108 fixed.

New problem: How do I get the now separated works with identical ISBN 3704220817 combined ? They do not show up in each others editions or using the search. Does it take time for LT to recalculate?

My book:
http://www.librarything.com/work/12183804/summary/81605858

Someone's book, also containing an empty entry:
http://www.librarything.com/work/12183806/summary

How do I get the now separated works with identical ISBN 3704220817 combined?

If the authors are listed correctly on the works, then you do it from the author's combine/separate page. On the author's page, http://www.librarything.com/author/christieagatha, in the Improve This Author box on the right, click the author's name.

#1: Bananaman Annual 1985:
http://www.librarything.com/work/10808398
http://www.librarything.com/work/11159492

#2: Dandy Book 1983:
http://www.librarything.com/work/8028562
http://www.librarything.com/work/10136515

Many thanks

#112 done

Cheers, m'dear :)

#1: 2000ad Annual 1991:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11018569
http://www.librarything.com/work/11018571

#2: 2000ad Annual 1988:
http://www.librarything.com/work/911677
http://www.librarything.com/work/4092448

#3: 2000ad Annual 1985:
http://www.librarything.com/work/11405409
http://www.librarything.com/work/911649

#4: 2000ad Annual 1984:
http://www.librarything.com/work/2920547
http://www.librarything.com/work/6033277

#111 r.orrison: I'm back to my original problem, then, as the works don't show up for me (tried different PCs & internet connections) - too many books and works under Agatha Christie?

Any other ways of combining the works?

edit:
Either someone did it or the identical ISBN matched them - they are combined now, see http://www.librarything.com/work/12183806/summary/81605858

Still interested in the answer if there is another way of combining them, or if the ISBN "catch up" after a while. And had anybody else the problem of the works shpwing not up on the author's page?

#114 Done - and remind me not to do a anything like this when tired! My mistake now fixed.

Does this look OK?

#115 by @Laia>
It was me that combined them, while investigating what was happening. There are ways of combining books that don't show up as suggestions anywhere, but they are complicated (see the links in the first message). Usually the easiest way is just to ask here.

Sometimes a book doesn't show up on an author's page when it clearly should, usually it will appear if you wait a day or two.

>116 fdholt:: Looking good to me, fdholt. Thank you very much indeed :)

# 117

Thanks.

I've been doing some author splits and title combinations for Thomas Wolfe (1), the author of Look Homeward Angel. TW (1) had already been aliased into Thomas Clayton Wolfe -- except it really hasn't -- it was aliased to thomasclaytonwolfe instead of to wolfethomasclayton. so that the author page heading reads 'thomasclaytonwolfe' instead of 'Thomas Clayton Wolfe'.

I don't see how to edit the url. I could fix it cosmetically by entering a Canonical name, but I hesitate to do that. I suppose I could re-alias TW (1) correctly to wolfethomasclayton but I don't know if that may screw stuff up worse, since it's already been aliased once't.

Advice, please...

Good thing you didn't, as wolfethomasclayton was combined into Thomas Wolfe. I have separated it out, but it has no books. For that matter, neither does thomasclaytonwolfe. The two really ought to be combined. Canonical name will still probably be needed.

Hmmmm, okay, thanks. I hadn't noticed that the correct middlename form had been combined into TW (1). Actually, I'm just going to leave it alone, I think. He didn't use Clayton, so it doesn't really belong in a 'canonincal' name, and as far as I can tell there (surprisingly) don't seem to be any other authors called just 'Thomas Wolfe' so it's not really needed. I believe (though I'm not sure) that all the 'unknown' titles listed under TW do belong to TW (1), but most are in German (help?) and one seems hopelessly vague ('Selections').

Some German, others Norwegian and Danish. The only two I can't specifically give to Thomas Wolfe (1) after checking in World Cat are 'Selections' and 'Sämtliche Erzählungen' (Complete Stories). I've undivided it.

A few of those works can't be combined with the English becasue they are of only part of the English work. I have put original title into CK.

I don't see any reason to recombine the two clayton pages in, as they have no works. If anyone disagrees, go right ahead.

Thanks, MarthaJeanne...

Thanks so much for #101!

> 125: Does it help to contact Amazon about image problems? (Oh, wait; you specified "ISBN" image problems. Never mind.)

>128 Collectorator:
I've got the old set on my desk at home. I'll try to remember to bring them to the computer tomorrow.

Stray 0-copy of "Requiem for a Spanish Peasant & The Ford" that needs combining :

http://www.librarything.com/work/12171288
http://www.librarything.com/work/12173793

Thanks.

> 131: Done.

>130 Collectorator:
Collectorator,
Looks like someones been working assiduously on these. Thanks! It's looking good. I just added Grolier as publisher to those in the new series which didn't have a connection to Grolier yet. Should I combine the various isbns for the 6 in 6 sets?

Yeah, it looks like Grolier changed the order and number of volumes several times after the 70's. I'll do a bit more research and see if I can unravel it better. Sorry thing is the isbn that seems to be for the entire set.

Also, the original subscription in the 1930's was 30 volumes. And there may be another publisher who has used the same phrase in their geography set.

please combine
1 0-copy done
http://www.librarything.com/work/5156516
http://www.librarything.com/work/7384252

thanks

#136 done

I'm pretty much done with the Lands and Peoples entries. I've combined what seemed appropriate based on a library search that discovered all of the ISBNs which are present. I've enhanced series descriptions and placed disambiguation notices. The New series continues to show multiple items of each volume because someone added multiple odd canonical names and I have not undone them. Two entries appear to be Amazon seller errors in titles, but I didn't know which way to jump, so I left them for future editing.

Turns out I own 2 full sets of the old series. They are just too gorgeous! It's a shame no one has scanned pictures of the 1973 covers. They are très cool, aussi.

0-copies that need combining :

Norton critical ed. of Voltaire's Candide :
http://www.librarything.com/work/11670137
http://www.librarything.com/work/12196291

The Characters by La Bruyère :
http://www.librarything.com/work/406329
http://www.librarything.com/work/12196406
http://www.librarything.com/work/9942256

Thanks.

Hi! I'm not really sure how to go about this so I thought I'd post it here.

This book (Don Juan in Hankey, PA) is by author Gale Martin
http://www.librarything.com/work/12057503/
but it seems that "Gale Martin" has been combined with "Martingale and Company" (publisher of knitting books) and I can't seem to separate this by using http://www.librarything.com/author/martingaleed/names

I appreciate the help!
Thanks

>142 brigneti:

See if this looks better.

> 141: Done. Also, another zero-copy turned up, at http://www.librarything.com/work/10479890 . If you've been working on Jean de La Bruyère, can you tell us where it belongs?

>144 jasbro:

Those would belong together :

http://www.librarything.com/work/10479894
http://www.librarything.com/work/10479890

>145 Jarandel:

And now they are :)

please combine
1
http://www.librarything.com/work/12197991&coverredo=3295739455
with
http://www.librarything.com/work/1665872
or
http://www.librarything.com/work/2872738
I'm unable to choose…

2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/7432321 0-copy
http://www.librarything.com/work/3349925

thanks

>143 AnnieMod: Thanks. At least now they are separate, even if Gale Martin still shows up as "Martingale (ed)" http://www.librarything.com/author/martingale-1

All done thanks.

Various "The Characters of Theophrastus" that need combining :

http://www.librarything.com/work/560204
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198186
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198197

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Stray copies of Montaigne's Essays, Vol. 1

http://www.librarything.com/work/331078
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198552
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198469
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198360
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198333
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198324

Montaigne's Essays, Vol. 2

http://www.librarything.com/work/234348
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198586
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198584

Montaigne's Essays, Vol. 3

http://www.librarything.com/work/588222
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198506
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198356
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198328
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198315

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Hamlet / Othello by Shakespeare (not 0-copies but can't get the author's combining page to load)

http://www.librarything.com/work/155406
http://www.librarything.com/work/6999061
http://www.librarything.com/work/12198833

>148 brigneti:

Which cannot be fixed easily enough - there is a CN somewhere that overwrites everything (in another language site?). I had put in a name for it - so

AnnieMod, I think I fixed the Martingale problem. The other book had an editor so combined it, leaving the Gale Martin book. Does it look OK now?

>151 fdholt:

Yep - that was what I would have tried next but ran out of time last night. Thanks for finishing it :)

> 147.1: This looks like another Amazon image problem, like ##125 and 138 above. If it's a combining request, wouldn't we go with title over ISBN or Amazon-generated cover images? Please advise.

>147 supersidvicious:.2: Done.

>149 Jarandel:: Done.

>151 fdholt:, 152
Thanks to both!

I have a book by Henrik Höjer:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8891532

If I go from there to the author's page
http://www.librarything.com/author/hjerhenrik
it says No books currently cataloged.

Instead my book is listed on
http://www.librarything.com/author/houmljerhenrik

Can they be combined please? Thanks!

>155 prussia_cove:, Done, I think.

Q: Do we need (or already have) an "Amazon Image Problem" thread? Several such are identified above (note my post #153), and here's another:

Luigi Pirandello
To Clothe the Naked and Other Plays
http://www.librarything.com/work/814608

is not one and the same as:

Lenore Hart
The Treasure of Savage Island
http://www.librarything.com/work/12203367

Actually, this may be more than an "image problem," since WorldCat takes you to Pirandello's Work, but Amazon takes you to Hart's. Evidently, there's a same or similar ISBN involved here too.

Seeing as how I've always avoided tackling Amazon Image Problems, your thoughts, suggestions, and/or direct action would be gratefully accepted. Thanks to you all!

It is an ISBN problem - worldcat lists both with the same ISBN http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=0525470921&qt=owc_search

Which means that we are stuck -- one of those that can never be untangled fully...

> 158: Thanks for your assessment. (I was afraid that's the case.)

DONE.

In need of combining :

• Did you see me as a corpse? by Léo Malet :
http://www.librarything.com/work/3187065
http://www.librarything.com/work/12207399

• Fog over the Tolbiac bridge (Comic) by Tardi & Malet
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204329
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204425
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204403
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204386
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204383
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204326
http://www.librarything.com/work/12204364


Thanks.

> 160: Done as requested. Please double-check that it gave the results we want. Thanks!

>161 jasbro: Seems fine to me, thanks :)

Advice please.

I added this book today: http://www.librarything.com/work/7888826/editions/82336479

As you may notice, my copy (and current Amazon cover) say over 12, 000 words, but all others say over 6000. However, the ISBN seems to have stayed the same. Should I separate my copy out?

In the process of looking at this I have combined and separated various language editions. However, it could be argued that all the various bilingual editions belong together. Your opinions?

Even if the various language combinations are kept separate, what about the German/English and Englisch/Deutsch? http://www.librarything.com/work/513597

I should add that really finding all of them will be quite a job. I suspect that they are not all in LT, but there were at least 10 different language/German editions at the store yesterday.

#163 My guess is that you bought a new edition that has doubled the number of words. (This is really common in supplemental language texts.) I would separate out the 12,000 from the 6,000. The isbn is the same but publishers are notorious for reusing the isbns. It costs them money!

In your second example, I find this entry strange (2nd down): German-English Visual Bilingual Dictionary (Bilingual Visual Dictionary) (German and French Edition) / Dk (ISBN 1405311045)
However there was an omnibus issue of all languages and the isbn covers the Spanish/English and German/English. This isbn does not bring up the French in WorldCat.

Can these two works be combined?

http://www.librarything.com/work/12211330
http://www.librarything.com/work/9354655

I can't seem to figure out how. LT doesn't recognize them as potential matches, I'm guessing because of the different methods of listing the author. I would also be interested in knowing how this type of issue is tackled.

Thank you,

In #472 of Conversationa in 20th Century Authors (Their
Books) Part 4, I put double brackets around Marshall Field and go to "others" to try to have Touchstones show him, .but after doing so and clicking on the name I am taken to Maura Conlon-Ivors. Why is this and is there someone that can correct this? If so, who? Or to whom should this inquiry be directed?

test
Marshall Field

it did it for me too. but I don't know the fix. take it to bug reporting?

http://www.librarything.com/groups/bugcollectors

> 166, 167: It's doesn't identify what's going wrong in this instance, and I don't understand the mechanics (or electronics, or virtual logic) of how touchstones work; but there's a helpful message / thread on forcing touchstones at http://www.librarything.com/topic/127136#3045924 . That's is how I get Marshall Field. Hope it helps!

http://www.librarything.com/work/9840430/editions

No, I am NOT the one who combined these - but apparently I did something with CK at one time, as it showed up in my News Feed. I think they need separating. I don't have the time or patience tonight.

To combine: The Hermit Thrush Sings by Susan Butler
http://www.librarything.com/work/272608
http://www.librarything.com/work/6428997

#170 done

http://www.librarything.com/author/lafargejohn/issues
needs clearing up, but I didn't quite dare, as doing relationships between split authors is a tricky one.

#169 done along with some extra singletons added. #172 also done, hopefully.

173> Thank you very much. I was in over my head on those.

Could someone please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/351493

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/1910385/book/82541127

Thanks.

>175 LolaWalser:: Done.

yay!

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/8902875

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/315451

>178 ElBarto: Done.

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/10493791

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/4300157

Thanks

180: Done

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/12239731 (0) copies

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/12239733 (2) copies

Thanks in advance

>183 guurtjesboekenkast:: Klaar (done).

> 182: Have you tried following links to these Works on WorldCat and/or Amazon? I find they're often helpful in making connections between Works in translation and their (for me) English-language originals; WorldCat more often so than Amazon. Still, our editions on LT have to include ISBNs that WorldCat or Amazon can find, which is less often the case for editions published in non-English-speaking countries.

(Teach your kids languages! It's a mark of truly educated people the world over!)

Done thanks.

Humboldt's travels to equinoctial America, Part 1/2
http://www.librarything.com/work/12235011
0-copy in need of combining :
http://www.librarything.com/work/12235049

>182 Collectorator:,185

Careful with the translations and Google translate -- books get renamed during translations - and sometimes a book with the same name in English is actually another one from the series.

>186 Jarandel:

Done.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Covered%2520Wagon%2520Women

thanks

189: Done

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/The+World%27s+Best+Photographs
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/4891207
http://www.librarything.com/work/10807065
http://www.librarything.com/work/4793538
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11869044
http://www.librarything.com/work/8120649
http://www.librarything.com/work/2174436

thanks

>192 supersidvicious:: Done.

>182 Collectorator: - I worked on it a bit - mostly looking up ISBN's in worldcat and seeing if a title was listed - some entries show the original title or sometimes if you click on a link to one of the library's holdings they will list the original title. I didn't combine any that I wasn't sure about.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/173491
http://www.librarything.com/work/1039156
http://www.librarything.com/work/11270877
http://www.librarything.com/work/7089437

thanks

>195 supersidvicious: Done + 2 bonus strays in other languages combined as well.
Except the 0-copy I've linked below :

http://www.librarything.com/work/173491
http://www.librarything.com/work/11270877

>196 Jarandel:: Combined those two.

please combine
1 0-copy done
http://www.librarything.com/work/6063513
http://www.librarything.com/work/7445485

thanks

>198 supersidvicious:: Done.

please combine
1 0-copy done
http://www.librarything.com/work/80163
http://www.librarything.com/work/7431744
2 0-copy done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11801491
http://www.librarything.com/work/11801507
3 0-copy done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11801504
http://www.librarything.com/work/11801497

thanks

>200 supersidvicious:: Done.

I have in my library the book: Captain Bligh's Second Voyage to the South Seas, by Ida Lee. But when I put the title in to be searched, I get a book by Captain Bligh:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2316749/members/10941784

How can this be corrected so that a search for this book will give the Lee book??

I think I have fixed this by manually inserting the Ida Lee book and deleting the book by William Bligh from my library--I have never read the Book by Bligh and I only have in my library books I have read in full.

In the Putnam Hall series page I see one title twice. I've tried to combine this but one copy has a single copy and the other is a zero-copy edition.

I'd appreciate any help in combining these. If there are tips for how to accomplish this, I'd like to learn them.

James

#203 Done. The zero-copy edition showed up under possible combinations.