To combine or not?

So I just acquired CWS The wine of astonishment which is separate from The wine of astonishment because this edition has CSEC study notes (apparently for some sort of British exam?). But there are only two of us with this edition, and only about 100 with the regular edition, and so it seems like it makes more sense for them to be together... but it's not a decision I want to make on my own, lol.

I'd combine them, assuming the full text is there. I doubt the study notes are so extensive as to warrant keeping this edition separate. Is it really any different from editions containing book club discussion suggestions? We combine those.

232 pages, of which 7p are glossary + 62p are study notes.

I assume that CWS stands for Caribbean Writer's Series, In which case, well over half of the copies in the main work are this edition. You have not included as ISBN, and the CWS isn't really part of the title. Those would explain why it wasn't autocombined.

I'm not so sure - it depends on how extensive the study notes are. The edition .Monkey. owns has 232 pages whereas the 1986 Heinemann edition has 160 pages. Yep I know there may be differences due to typeface and layout but it is indicative that the notes may be reasonably extensive.

BTW CSEC is Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate so likely to be a West Indian exam.

Quite honestly, if it were me, I'd edit the extra info out of the title. Then depending on my mood, either combine the two, or separate my copy out and just combine it into the main work. I doubt that the other member would care (or even notice) either way. Last entries August 2016.

>3 MarthaJeanne: It does indeed stand for that. The source I added from didn't have any of the extras in the title, I added in the study materials bit in after, when I was like wait why's there only 2 copies of this surely it's not that rare?? and went to the author page and saw the ~100 copy one, and then remembered it mentioned the materials and was like oohhh. I have the ISBN on my edition, at least, it's 9780435033408. The copies in the non-extras don't have matching ISBNs to mine, and I seem to recall in the title page (which is in another room now) it mentioning the original CWS edition, and then the later edition with the study materials added, so it does seem plenty likely those others are w/o the extras. But yeah, it seemed to me like the connection made more sense than keeping them apart for something that's probably little used anyway.

>4 andyl: Ahh, thanks for that, I had a minor glance at the beginning of the extras and saw something about exams that were definitely not American and just made the leap to British, since I know they have ones with many abbreviations, lol. My mistake.