Combining/Separating (Please Fix This Book!) Request Thread #48

**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 :)

Animal Fun 1, 2, 3 by Mik Brown
http://www.librarything.com/work/12459911
belongs with
http://www.librarything.com/work/9665666
on the below author page:
Mik Brown
http://www.librarything.com/author/brownmik
(When combined it was on the M. Brown page in error.)

2: Done, I think.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/7079751 without author
De Achterhoek. Land van bossen en kastelen. Gids voor het toerisme in oostelijk Gelderland

with

http://www.librarything.com/work/12464774 with author B. Stegeman
De Achterhoek. Land van bossen en kastelen. Gids voor het toerisme in oostelijk Gelderland

Thanks in advance

Edited because of adding title

4: Done.

I think this one needs to be broken apart, but I can't be sure:
http://www.librarything.com/work/3066273
The spell book of Liz Taylor

According to Wikipedia, the book I have a bed made of pancakes is the original, and the other novel is an adaption.

I don't presently have access to the author's website to confirm the information listed on wikipedia. (Work has it blocked.)

Could someone else help me out here?

Here http://www.jaclynmoriarty.com/Books-Listen.html, it says that one is an adaptation of the other, but the author clearly considers it two different books. I'll separate them and add a disambiguation notice, pointing to this website.

Edited to add: I don't know with which of these books the CK belongs. I hope someone else can correct that. You can find the books at http://www.librarything.com/work/3066273 and http://www.librarything.com/work/12466943

Stray 0-copy, The Origin of Species part 2/2

http://www.librarything.com/work/12467237
http://www.librarything.com/work/12467241

Thanks.

8: Done.

http://www.librarything.com/work/152698 is book 3 of a trilogy; looking through the editions list shows that the German translation has at least 5 books, and that book 4 and 5 of that translation is buried in here. And surely if these have been miscombined, so has parts of the rest of the series.

>10 prosfilaes:, @prosfilaes: Begun by addressing Book 2 of the trilogy, The Paladin of the Night, but I've got to stop for now. I separated and re-combined two German-language parts, Das Buch Quar. Die Rose des Propheten 02 and Die Rose des Propheten III. Das Buch der Unsterblichen. Unfortunately, I still don't yet know how these relate to Book 2 (or 3!) of the English-language trilogy. I'll check back as/when I can, and other Members' assistance will be appreciated in the meantime. Thank you.

Further to clarification of Book 2 (as noted above), Das Buch Quar is now identified as part "2a" of the trilogy, and Das Buch der Unsterblichen is part "2b." The Will of the Wanderer (English-language Book 1) appears to have a single German-language counterpart, namely Die Rose des Propheten I. Das Buch der Götter, so I'll leave it alone. As noted, The Prophet of Akhran (English-language Book 3) has Geman-language parts 4 and 5, which I'll separate and re-combine as parts "3a" and "3b." If anybody objects or disagrees, please fix it as necessary or appropriate. Thanks!

OOPS -- Also found part 6 in German! Making a logical leap, I've now re-assigned German parts 1 & 2 to Book 1; 3 & 4 to Book 2; and 5 & 6 to Book 3. When I can, I'll plan to PM Members having German-language copies, to see whether any can affirm, clarify, or refute my suppositions. (Film at 11:00 ... .)

Please combine:

#1: Buddhist Sculpture: Handbook of Korean Art
http://www.librarything.com/work/10360676
http://www.librarything.com/work/3675398

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/1088854
http://www.librarything.com/work/104635
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/827489
http://www.librarything.com/work/11916233
3 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10379396
http://www.librarything.com/work/5840394
thanks

> 12, 13: Done.

Thanks. Also:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4293283
http://www.librarything.com/work/4645354

>15 marq: done

Thanks. Also, please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/12476986
http://www.librarything.com/work/12476981

>17 marq:: Done

I see a problem with this book that I don't know how to resolve. There is one copy:

Zen Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) / Harris, Peter (ISBN 1840723270)
http://www.librarything.com/work/12477014
Which I have separated out.

The problem is that the ISBN and the cover image indicate that it is:

Zen Poems / Bazzano, Manu (ISBN 1840723270)
http://www.librarything.com/work/12476986

Does it have the wrong ISBN and cover image or the wrong title and author?

PS

http://www.librarything.com/work/10778368
is the Peter Harris "Zen Poems"

My guess is that it has the wrong ISBN (and cover image). Probably the owner imported Zen Poems from Amazon, then changed the author and expanded the title, but didn't care to correct the ISBN.
The only way to be sure is by asking the owner.

Hi, please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/5987748/editions

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/12478488/editions/84775814

Thanks!

>21 LolaWalser: done

Great, thanks.

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/10951114

with the Dutch version

http://www.librarything.nl/work/book/84793978

24> Done.

Could someone please clean up this author page?

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

There are several other authors named Comes or Comès so there needs to be separating and splitting done. My French isn't up to it.

I have tried to add - "Fann eg dei stigar" : vandringar i Aslaug Vaas diktning by Leif Mæhle to my library. It would not combine with the other books just like it. http://no.librarything.com/work/book/84813984 with the other 3 books http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344&titleauthorredo=2896582076
KirstenLund

> 26, 27: Looks like these are done?

My book is still not included with the 3 other books > "Fann eg dei stigar" : vandringar i Aslaug Vaas diktning by Leif Mæhle http://no.librarything.com/work/book/84813984. Number of member of this book should be 4. I've tried to save the book several times, but it will not be included with the other 3 member of the books. It is not included in the author's list either. As you can see my name is not included here http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344&titleauthorredo=2896582076
KirstenLund

> 29: Yes, I see that; but, when looking at your specific book ( http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344/summary/84813984 ), I see the same Work as the three other Members listed ( http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344 ) -- only with a cover image added. That suggests this isn't a combining problem, although I don't know how else to pinpoint or correct it.

Any thoughts or suggestions out there? Is this "merely" a caching issue (whatever that means), which should eventually resolve itself? Thanks to all for your help.

The link on KirstenLunds profile gives the work number 4260913, but this switches to the other when viewed, so they have been combined. If it were my book I would leave it overnight, and if it still were giving problems I would edit my title to make it easier to find in editions.

30, 31 >

When viewed IN KirstenLund's library the book URL show http://no.librarything.com/work/book/84813984 (no work id). Refreshing the page then brings up http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344/editions/84813984 (note "editions").

ETA: The 3 other members books, when viewed in their library, displays an URL in the common work/id/book/id format (i.e. http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344/book/20292054 in user brirei's library). URL does not change when these users book pages are refreshed.)

Don't know if this is of any help, I don't think I've seen anything like it before.

31 >

So I did, but nothing changed.

>30 jasbro:

When I go to ( http://no.librarything.com/work/2931344 ) and try to add the book, It'll will come up bank in "add books" box

> 27-34: Bug report (of sorts) posted at http://www.librarything.com/topic/136051# . Let's continue our discussion there please, as appropriate. Thank you!

http://www.librarything.com/work/2931344/editions/84813984 - I don't even see the title in the editions list. So it looks like the book thinks it is combined but the work has no idea the book belongs to it...

36 >

Shall I delete the mentioned book?

> 37: Personally, I would propose that you keep it in your catalog at least for the time being, if only to see what comes of the bug report. Unless @timspalding (or somebody else for LT) suggests / requests deleting and re-entering the record, it would likely help to have this example in addressing an underlying problem, if any. And, in any case, if the book is something you would include in your catalog, it makes no sense (to me) to remove it -- that's not what LT's about.

On the other hand, I would urge everyone to continue this discussion in the bug report thread ( http://www.librarything.com/topic/136051# ), and let this thread get back to combining / separating requests. Thank you!

Speaking of getting back to combining / separating requests, Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees has "bunches" (a highly specific, technical term on LT, no?) of unrelated combine/separate potentials. Any help to get those sorted out and cleaned up would be appreciated. Thank you!

I'm not sure we can do anything about it. But the situation is somewhat wierd.

I checked one book there with only 6 copies:
http://www.librarything.com/work/12122870 (Baseball in America) It has only one line in editions.

Baseball in America / Smith, Robert (ISBN 032111583X)

This ISBN belongs to another book (http://www.librarything.com/work/3340696, also in the list) but of the 6 members of the other work, 5 have it in their catalogues entered from LoC without an ISBN, and the 6th entered from Amazon.com with ISBN listed as 032111583X?, so why the state of editions?

-------

Against the current http://www.librarything.com/work/9216446

Editions:Against the current / Wittke, Carl Frederick (1 copy separate)
Against the current: The life of Karl Heinzen (1809-80) / Wittke, Carl Frederick (ISBN 032111583X) (1 copy; 1.1.2 separate)

One catalogue shows ISBN 0670109444, the other 032111583X? But the first ISBN (valid for this work) does not show up when clicking on the WorldCat link, but only the bad one. The bad one is an Amazon.com entry.
.

> 38

I have fixed the problem. I found an other book by Leif Mæhle and changed the title to "Fann eg dei stigar" : vandringar i Aslaug Vaas diktning by Leif Mæhle and it was accepted. I found the other members and included them. The original book wouldn't be included no matter how hard I tried.

This needs to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/9414306
http://www.librarything.com/work/21964/book/10972044

Ceram has the same problem with another book by him--having his last name spelled as Cream insted of Ceram

> 42: Done.

I've manually entered these books:

Britannica Great Books: The Great Conversation
http://www.librarything.com/work/4436106/summary/84969975

Britannica Great Books: Gilbert Galileo Harvey
http://www.librarything.com/work/12498616/book/84970755

The top book auto combined incorrectly
http://www.librarything.com/work/4436106/commonknowledge/84969975

The bottom book should have (but didn't) combine
http://www.librarything.com/work/4436106/commonknowledge/84969975

Thank you in advance

>44 cynthrip:
Done

dear all,
should works by this author be combined?

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

thanks

These are Jewish prayer books. I've combined the two Ashkenaz, but Ashkenaz and Serafad should not be combined, and of course the third one could belong to either.

Hi everyone,

I was trying to find books by Lucy Daniels (the author of Caleb, My Son, http://www.librarything.com/work/3766427), but when I click on her name, I end up on this page:
http://www.librarything.com/author/bagliobenm

Obviously, there is an author combination problem, but I am not sure how to fix it.

Thank you,

k4k

Baglio's Wikipedia page says that Lucy Daniels is a pseudonym used for two series which Baglio created and which publishers hired writers to flesh out.
So, yeah. Lucy Daniels needs some seperation.

2wonderY: thanks for your help. Other than going to her biography page and pulling out her works, I don't know what else to do.

Looks like someone else is working on the issue already. I've got Dr. Daniel's homepage and her list of titles which I'll add if it's not done soon. I'll let the seperation fairy finish its work, as he/she seems well on the way.

Here's her website:
http://www.drlucydaniels.com/bio.htm

Yes, I pulled out those myself. But how do you get rid of Baglio's name? No offense intended to him. k4k

I'm a pretty good normal combiner/separator but this one has me stumped (and yep, I'm probably missing something obvious).

I was looking through my books and I own Heat Wave by Richard Castle, but, then on the Series page: http://www.librarything.com/series/Nikki+Heat there's also this Heat Wave --> http://www.librarything.com/work/10977037&titleauthorredo=1512189642 without an author.

I just wondered if there was a way to combine the two Heat Waves together even though one of them doesn't appear to have an author.

>48 krazy4katz:-52
I think that if Lucy Daniels is not always Ben M. Baglio then the authors should be separated (http://www.librarything.com/author/bagliobenm/names) rather than dividing the Ben M. Baglio page.

>53 DanieXJ: Done.

You can now manually add or correct authors somewhere around the middle of the page in those cases.

> 54: Procedurally (mostly for those trying to follow how we do this), I presume you would:

(a) separate the Author name "Lucy Daniels" from "Ben M. Baglio,"

(b) divide the resulting Lucy Daniels works into appropriate, multiple divisions on their own Author page, and

(c) alias Baglio's Daniels pseudonym Works back into Baglio.

Are there other steps or techniques you would use?

>56 jasbro:
I think that's basically correct. The following gave me pause in being more specific, "Lucy Daniels is a pseudonym used for two series which Baglio created and which publishers hired writers to flesh out." It sounds like Lucy Daniels isn't simply a pseudonym for Baglio but is a publisher created pseudonym for multiple authors. If that's so, I'm not sure how best to handle those books. So, for instance, the Carolyn Keene books have not been divided and aliased to their respective real author names. But I don't know if that's the right model for this case.

>57 eromsted: Aside from the ghostwriting issue, IIRC (I researched this series for another website a while back) there's a UK/US difference, too: Ben Baglio is used for US editions and Lucy Daniels for UK editions of the same book. Apparently the UK publisher was afraid children wouldn't read the book if they were credited to a male author...

There's some more info here: http://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/misc2/daniels.html

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/381876
http://www.librarything.com/work/11306487

#59 done

Please combine

The Decendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings

http://www.librarything.nl/work/2499168

with

De afstammelingen - Kaui Hart Hemmings

http://www.librarything.com/work/7965195/commonknowledge/85038847

#61 done

> 48-52, 54, 56-58: Since this topic seems to be growing legs of its own, I propose a separate thread to discuss handling multi-author pseudonyms, publisher pseudonyms, and ghostwriters. Please join that conversation at http://www.librarything.com/topic/136226# .

Thank you!

Bumping to get this above the old thread.

can you please split these works?
http://www.librarything.com/work/3102768/editions

thanks

I've done the separation, and am working on finding any combinations that now need doing.

This author http://www.librarything.com/author/tba is really a mess. What's more, I can't figure out what TBA is supposed to be. However maybe some of the books can be combined off of it.

http://www.librarything.com/work/3017928
http://www.librarything.com/work/10708352

http://www.librarything.com/work/3017928
http://www.librarything.com/work/10708352

http://www.librarything.com/work/11858721
http://www.librarything.com/work/8232317

There are four books found in a search for Temelji vjere. No ISBNs
http://www.librarything.com/work/9457653
http://www.librarything.com/work/9493343
http://www.librarything.com/work/9230381
Show the same cover,
http://www.librarything.com/work/10372966 has the blank cover.

http://www.librarything.com/work/6181700
http://www.librarything.com/work/10402056
Again, no ISBN, but WorldCat only knows one book with this Title.

http://www.librarything.com/work/8849471
http://www.librarything.com/work/10092364

I think I should post this here :

The touchstone for Magic Kingdom for Sale - SOLD

http://www.librarything.com/work/483
points to here
http://www.librarything.com/work/11376237
which is actually a spoof based on the book.

Please could you change it?

> 67, 68 & 69: Done, either before I got there or now.

> 70: Not sure how to change or correct touchstones, except to force them when they don't work right. See http://www.librarything.com/topic/127136#3045924

70/71 Sometimes it also helps to change the title a bit. I played with that one last night, and if you leave off the sold part, 'others' will give you the right book.

> Thanks, MarthaJeanne. Actually, that is what I did when I realised the touchstone wasn't working, but I was hoping there was a way to fix it permanently.

Looks like I'll have to learn how to force touchstones; but that only solves it for my posts. Most of the time, unless I'm writing a review, I don't check my touchstones.

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/12509493
http://www.librarything.com/work/5877901

They're both no 47 in the Loeb Classical Library.

#74 Done

> 73: Apart from "natural selection" or forcing touchstones, cutting & pasting the Work's title or Author's name into the brackets seems to be my most effective means of getting suitable touchstones. Then again, I'm (a little?) OC about checking that the resulting link will take you where I want you to go ... . Any other thoughts and suggestions out there?

A question: I have this book, The Burned Tower (http://www.librarything.com/work/11982987) that has 2 authors:
Sergey Dyachenko and Marina Dyachenko. If I click on Sergey's name, it goes to his author page and the book is listed. However, no books are listed on Marina's page if you click on her name. Do you think this is correct?

Thank you,

k4k

ETA: I also just realized that this is a problem for Hotel Angeline (http://www.librarything.com/work/book/81307630) if you click on David Laskey's name.

77 You need to confirm the second author in 'other authors' on the main work page. This has to be done manually because of the garbage that often gets imported, and to set the some/all editions and main/secondary author.

78: Thank you, MarthaJeanne! k4k

Please combine:
Boerin in Frankrijk. Land van zon en wijn; Volwassen mensen huilen niet - 0 copies
http://www.librarything.com/work/4288989
with
Boerin in Frankrijk. Land van zon en wijn; Volwassen mensen huilen niet - 3 copies
http://www.librarything.com/work/10530930

Thanks in adance
Guurtje

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/613685

http://www.librarything.com/work/5352972

Thanks

Please combine:
Boerin in Frankrijk. En de boer hij ploegde voort; Mijn vallei in Frankrijk - 0 copies
http://www.librarything.com/work/4288996
with
Boerin in Frankrijk. En de boer hij ploegde voort; Mijn vallei in Frankrijk - 2 copies
http://www.librarything.com/work/10530938

Thanks in adance
Guurtje

>81 LolaWalser:, 82
Done.

>80 guurtjesboekenkast:: Done

0-copy in need of combining

The Bride of Lamermoor / The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott

http://www.librarything.com/work/5181962
http://www.librarything.com/work/12525961

Thanks.

>85 Jarandel:
Done.

0-copy

De Goupil à Margot by Louis Pergaud

http://www.librarything.com/work/12271885
http://www.librarything.com/work/12530065

Thanks.

>87 Jarandel:
Done.

can you please combine and separate these works as needed?
http://www.librarything.com/series/Technology+In+Action+Pearson
thanks

>89 supersidvicious:
Combined the obvious stuff. Working on splitting the questionably-combined stuff, and putting the offshoots in the series.

Edit/Update:
I've split them and recombined the stuff I could, since I don't know the books. I've also created two sub-series to help make recombinations easier to find:
http://www.librarything.com/series/Technology+In+Action+Pearson+Complete
http://www.librarything.com/series/Technology+In+Action+Pearson+Introductory

>90 AnnaClaire:
thanks!

something different

http://www.librarything.com/series/Reader%27s+Digest+Select+Editions

should be converted from Series to Publisher series.
Somebody is willing to help?
thanks

#91: Why should it be converted? They're anthologies of abridgments, and both the anthology and abridgment are unique to Reader Digest.

Please combine:

Great Expectations
http://www.librarything.com/work/12397609

with
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
http://www.librarything.com/work/7554

Thanks

#93: I don't know; it's clear that "Great Expectations" includes DVDs, and who knows what else. I wouldn't feel terribly guilty about leaving works with no ISBN and no author out in the cold.

Same author, to combine:
http://www.librarything.com/author/petersonjohn-1
http://www.librarything.com/author/petersonjohnlawrence
But I don't think the middle name is usually shown on the books.

95> I've done the aliasing.

Edited to add. There doesn't seem to be any combining of works to be done.

> 93/94: I agree with prosfilaes, especially since the title "Great Expectations" was apparently also used by other authors than Dickens (see combine potential for that work).

Please combine

http://www.librarything.nl/work/book/85276171

Harlan Coben - Blijf dichtbij
met

http://www.librarything.nl/work/11680351

Harlan Coben - Stay Close

Thanks.

98>Done

>92 prosfilaes:/97

Ok guys, you're right
thanks!

Someone please combine these two records of the audio cassette version of Fury from the Deep:
http://www.librarything.com/work/9677690
http://www.librarything.com/work/10298583

DONE; thank you

And these, The Tomb of the Cybermen (video):
http://www.librarything.com/work/2122916
http://www.librarything.com/work/11388626

DONE; thank you

Old Man's War by John Scalzi
http://www.librarything.com/work/7702
http://www.librarything.com/work/10382221/

The Last Colony by John Scalzi
http://www.librarything.com/work/2403717
http://www.librarything.com/work/10391180/

103> Last Colony done.

>103 agneson9:: Done.

I have a couple others that need separating

Two different car builder's dictionaries and volume 2 and 3 of aircraft colors

http://www.librarything.com/work/4702172/book/84409064
http://www.librarything.com/work/4702172/book/84409153

http://www.librarything.com/work/4775906/book/83178892
http://www.librarything.com/work/4775906/book/83178925

Thanks

> 106: I'm not seeing anything wrong there. Maybe somebody else already fixed it, but please check.

Looks also to me as if it has been fixed.

It is hard to tell with those links. Current links are:

DO NOT COMBINE!
http://www.librarything.com/work/12555126
http://www.librarything.com/work/4702172
DO NOT COMBINE!
http://www.librarything.com/work/12554771
http://www.librarything.com/work/4775906
DO NOT COMBINE!

I have added Canonical titles to the The Car Builder's Dictionary to try and make the difference clearer.

>107 Nicole_VanK:, >108 MarthaJeanne: Thanks

http://www.librarything.com/work/139733
http://www.librarything.com/work/8944594

Should these be combined? Some ISBNs (e.g. 0004583264) in both.

>110 marq:: I don't think they should be combined, the GEM version is different from the 'normal'one. I will get the GEMs out of the other one.

>111 SimoneA: Thanks. I see you've done it.

One thing that confuses me though is that when I look at http://www.librarything.com/work/8944594, I don't see the "Your book information" section of the work page which should be there if you have the book in your collection. Yet, in the "Recently added by" line of the "Members" section, my ID (marq) is there.

> 113: Sounds like a caching issue - on the side of LT servers I mean. If it persists you might need to enter a bug report at:

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

Thanks. I will give it a few days to sort out then check again..

Looks like these need to be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/1111924
http://www.librarything.com/work/10690708

The first one is the one with the author.

>116 thornton37814:
Done.

I assume that the following authors can be combined

a) http://www.librarything.com/author/janickipaulkonikowsk8&norefer=1&all=1
b) http://www.librarything.com/author/janickipaulkonikowsk&norefer=1&all=1

Please note that a) ends with the digit "8" . Is there anybody who can combine them? What was the problem? Regards and Thanks!

#118: They aren't combined. I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but they list the exact same book and the exact same user.

http://www.librarything.com/work/10702743
http://www.librarything.com/work/9062733

If you combine these books it might be possible to get both those pages empty, and then whatever is going on doesn't matter.

>119 prosfilaes: It might be that a) is a phantom author url. I have seen such phantom author url before. (/author/foobar&20&norefer=2)

Please note that they have different CK (this is a reported but rejected bug):
CK for Paul ; Konikow…Janicki, Jerzy = a)
CK for Jerzy Paul ; K…kowsky Janicki = b)

prosfilaes If you have time please report this bug ahagin.
Note: the urls are from my FireFox bookmarks. They are "manipulated" as 30.000 bookmarks. Thanks in advance!

>118 gangleri:
I just fixed the authors on the work instead. See http://www.librarything.com/work/9062733

Also, am I correct in thinking that http://www.librarything.com/work/10702743 is a different work? They have different page counts on worldcat and the latter doesn't list a second author. If they are different there should probably be a disambiguation notice.

This will need a little explanation. I just manually added to my library:

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning by Haruki Murakami
http://www.librarything.com/work/1046456/book/85611020 and

四月のある、晴れた朝に１００％の女の子に出会うことについて by Haruki Murakami
http://www.librarything.com/work/637581/book/85611243

They are both the same illustrated comic chapbook version of the well-known short story except that one is in English, and the other in Japanese. They should be combined together.

The problem is that each of them auto-combined with different works. They should be separated out because these are 1 short story, not the whole short story collection, but the work pages are too complicated for me to easily find my copy to separate out. I don't want to make a mess.

If you need me to edit my entries at all to make it easier, please let me know. I'd appreciate assistance.

Can someone cleverer than me figure out how to handle this one, please?

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

This is two authors, John H. Lienhard IV and John H. Lienhard, V. (Links to pages about them will be found in the short biography sections of the CK on the split.) The book presently in the split for V (John H. Lienhard (2)) is a book they wrote jointly.

http://www.librarything.com/work/2166780

#123 done, but I would still edit the title(s) to include 'comic'. There is a German story bundle with the same title, and they might get confused.

>124 MarthaJeanne:
See what you think of the following:
A Heat Transfer Textbook, Third Edition
John H. Lienhard
John H. Lienhard, IV
John H. Lienhard, V

1126> Looks lovely thank you. You seem to be getting me out of all my problems today.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Consumer+Reports+Buying+Guide
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/E-Tales

thanks

>128 supersidvicious: done

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/12323283
http://www.librarything.com/work/9491613

Thanks

> 130: Done.

Could someone take care of this: two publications from the same publisher, with apparently the same ISBN.
The isbn is 1888992360, in case that helps.

The works are
If You Really Loved Me and
Islam: A Catholic Perspective (this is the work I just added, but it's coming up under If You Really Loved Me)

http://www.librarything.com/work/33505

Thanks!

>132 SaintSunniva:

Don't know if this helps...

http://www.librarything.com/work/33505/book/85722103 (brings up Islam A Catholic Perspective)
http://www.librarything.com/work/33505 (brings up If You Really Loved Me)

And they are by different publishers.

Separated them. Unfortunately there now seem to be some copies of "Islam : A Catholic Perspective" loose. Ack.

These should be combined:

http://www.librarything.com/work/11855803/workdetails
http://www.librarything.com/author/tucklily

This should be added:

http://www.librarything.com/work/4991327/edit/10892766

to this:

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

Hi! VIAF search "Huber, Wolfgang" gives 49 results. The author division http://www.librarything.com/author/wolfgangdrhuber needs some cleaning.
Thanks for any help! Reinhardt

>135 Schmerguls:, 136: Done.

please combine:
http://www.librarything.de/work/4963532
http://www.librarything.de/work/4325090

>139 paulstalder:: Done.

Hi!

Works from http://www.librarything.com/author/epsteinrachels&norefer=2 "Rachel S. Epstein" are showing up at http://www.librarything.com/author/epsteinrachel&norefer=2 "Rachel Epstein"
There is some cleanup required here. Thanks for any help!

Sorry, I believe you, but I can't see which books on the Rachel Epstein page belong to Rachel S Epstein - WorldCat is not being helpful here. If you know, please use split the author on "epsteinrachel" and then alias the appropriate section to "epsteinrachels".

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/12223593
http://www.librarything.com/work/3793049

The second has the author.

>143 thornton37814: Looks like someone did it.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/LEGO%2520Official%2520Annual

thanks

> 145: With what?

Ah, hold on, 2011 occurred twice. Combined those.

If someone is in the mood for a long, complicated job

http://www.librarything.com/work/12590896/editions

is overcombined. I separated out the Animal Farm / 1984 combined edition, and several Monarch notes, but there are still a lot of simplified versions in there.

Please combine:

These four are all the same title:

http://www.librarything.com/work/2033541
http://www.librarything.com/work/1587345
http://www.librarything.com/work/741700
http://www.librarything.com/work/582907

> 148: Done.

please combine and separate as needed
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/11309712
http://www.librarything.com/work/4615540/editions
http://www.librarything.com/work/9917888/editions
2 done
http://www.librarything.com/work/10547053
http://www.librarything.com/work/10586830
http://www.librarything.com/work/12593755

thanks

Please Combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3938513
http://www.librarything.com/work/3693182

>150 supersidvicious: Done.

>151 Canadian_Down_Under: Done.

please combine:

www.librarything.com/work/10250134/book/36135590
www.librarything.com/work/10250151/book/37459307

please use second listed as it has cover and authors listed correctly.

Thx Jeff

>153 jefbra:: Done.

Please combine

www.librarything.com/work/1425923/book/41681508
www.librarything.com/author/asmercer

Thx Jeff

>155 jefbra:: Done.

Need to separate this Greenberg American Flyer Guide

http://www.librarything.com/work/2219407

from the Greenberg LGB guide.

Also need to separate volume I and II of the Ives Guide

http://www.librarything.com/work/2095163

> 157:

#1 : Done.
#2 : I don't see any volume ones in there. Maybe somebody else fixed it. Otherwise please let us know.

To combine: By the shores of silver lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder http://www.librarything.com/work/12443/book/32691667
http://www.librarything.com/work/11383085
http://www.librarything.com/work/12494931
http://www.librarything.com/work/12192649
http://www.librarything.com/work/10015713

Please combine:
Globi bei den Indianern
http://www.librarything.de/work/11441691
http://www.librarything.de/work/11793489

Globi in der Verbannung
http://www.librarything.de/work/11875457
http://www.librarything.de/work/11422459
http://www.librarything.de/work/11793488

Globi und die Bahn
http://www.librarything.de/work/10445133
http://www.librarything.de/work/11443111

Globi will ins Schlaraffenland
http://www.librarything.de/work/6995200
http://www.librarything.de/work/11441681

>160 paulstalder:: Done.

>137 gangleri: done
>141 gangleri: done

I frelled up, and combined 2 authors who are actually different. Now I can't find a way to fix it, and I'm getting lost in the groups

http://www.librarything.nl/work/12622100/workdetails/86103137 is by author (first,last)
van de Hulst Jr., W.G.

who is the son of: http://www.librarything.nl/author/vandehulstwg
van de Hulst, W.G.

It's further complicated because he's also the illustrator of many of his fathers books.

But my main self inflicted problem is that now the author of the work http://www.librarything.nl/work/12622100/ is linked to http://www.librarything.nl/author/hulstwgvande , which is the father (and wrongly noted, but that is another issue I think, correct should be /vandehulstwg )

http://www.librarything.nl/author/vandehulstjrwg also redirects to http://www.librarything.nl/author/vandehulstwg

so basically I need to have http://www.librarything.nl/author/vandehulstjrwg be his own author, and not be http://www.librarything.nl/author/vandehulstwg

help?

We'll try, but it's somewhat hard to understand. For instance, on most of those pages I see only one W.G. van de Hulst. Why are they split if there's just one author out there? Yes, I understand, father and son - but either they have not adequately been split, or there shouldn't be a split.

Hugely confusing.

P.s.: Also - why on earth is that page called "W.G. van de Hulst (verduidelijking)" - there is absolutely no "verduidelijking" (clarification) there.

I suppose they're not adequately split. The main problem is that http://www.librarything.com/author/vandehulstjrwg redirects to http://www.librarything.com/author/vandehulstwg , which is definitely wrong.

(changed to .com links)

There are a bunch of spelling variatations of both father and son as well.

I prolly made it worse by trying to fix it. Apologies.

Don't feel bad. I'm sure we all messed up a couple of things along the way. Just trying to understand what's what. No worries.

Right - this is going to take some time - especially since I'm not familiar with either father or son. But this site (http://www.wgvandehulst.com/) seems to provide at least some of the answers. Will get back on it tomorrow - if anybody else feels like it: be my guest.

perhaps some added info could help:

books written by dad W.G. van de Hulst:
http://www.wgvandehulst.com/sr_boekenoverzicht.html

books written by son W.G. van de Hulst Jr.:
http://www.wgvandehulst.com/jr_boekenoverzicht.html

> 166-169: Done, I think. But there is one title ("Lezen leren" - http://www.librarything.com/work/10208890) left because it shows on neither of those author info pages. Best guess would be that it's by the father, since he was a school teacher, but I'm reluctant to put it there on guesswork alone.

P.s.: And left disambiguation notices.

According to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek http://opc4.kb.nl/DB=1/PPN?PPN=865769540 it's indeed by the father.
Later edition is illustrated by the son.

thanks for the hard work.

> 171: Now attributed accordingly.

Graag gedaan.

> 159: Done.

Can someone combine the doubles in http://www.librarything.com/series/Lenin%2520Collected%2520Works please? Thanks!

http://www.librarything.com/work/11712358
http://www.librarything.com/work/93152

(The second work includes several different editions, inlucding the 1987 one.

> 174 done
> 175 done

To combine: The Very Worst Monster by Pat Hutchins
http://www.librarything.com/work/9585458
http://www.librarything.com/work/1643786

> 177: Done.

To combine: The Bears Who Stayed Indoors by Susanna Gretz http://www.librarything.com/work/699461/
http://www.librarything.com/work/12255917/

> 179: Done

I separated out three or four DVD or video from this work (Withnail & I):

http://www.librarything.com/work/123235

but now they are gone, and searching doesn't find them. If anyone knows how to fish them out and combine, please do.

>181 LolaWalser:
I gathered up all the stray copies that I found.

> 181-182: Ditto.

oops, I think I undid some of your work. I will fix.

These two, please:

http://www.librarything.com/work/8741752
http://www.librarything.com/work/3091192

> 185: Done.

Much obliged.

Please combine

http://www.librarything.com/work/12650606/book/86336111

and

http://www.librarything.com/work/6957626

Thank you

> 188 done

Great, thanks.

I have worked on separating the books out of this no-title. What's left is a journal title (or 2).
http://www.librarything.com/work/11628614/editions

Any help appreciated.

These 3 need separation

http://www.librarything.com/work/2206617/book/86401490

http://www.librarything.com/work/2206617/edit/86401443
http://www.librarything.com/work/2206617/book/86401404

Thanks

192> Working on it.

This was 'Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics'. I think I have all the volume works straightened out, and Kendall entered as 'other author' on editions with other authors as main author. If the different editions warrant separate works, someone else will ahve to separate them.

> 192/193: Done, I think...

> 191, @fdholt: Are we only separating everything out, at least for now?

#195 I thought so - but I don't usually work on magazine issues. My catalog contains complete runs of serials to match library practice so I don't run into this very often.

Please combine:

http://www.librarything.com/work/12021265
http://www.librarything.com/work/11986412

Thanks

> 197 Gottem.

please combine
1 done
http://www.librarything.com/series/Wine%2520Report

thanks

199: Done from the Editions pages of the works

Things with Claws needs combining. The first link has the editors as author, the second has one of the contributors:

http://www.librarything.com/work/3119022
http://www.librarything.com/work/2637081

> 201: Done.

From #191, finished this. However this is also a black hole work; I set a canonical title of "No title black hole work" since I can see from the 3 reviews that there is no author or title in the member's libraries. Heaven knows where the covers came from. And there are over 20,000 other works. Sigh!

At least the stray books and mags are out. Hopefully this won't catch other stuff like Elric, stealer of books. (Do I have that title right?)

We're over 200 posts here, and it looks like all's done except maybe fdholt's #191 above. Transferring links for that matter to Thread #49 ( http://www.librarything.com/topic/138117 ), THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you.