Duplicate a book for comic/manga series

Hello,

I would find very useful to be able to copy a previous book into a new one (including a new work, as well.) I read and buy quite some comics and manga and they tend to follow series where most books share almost all the bilbiographic information. For these series, professional cataloguers are... not at their best and if you are coherence obsessed as myself you end editing everything or adding the book manually. Fancy to implement a duplicate book action?

Thanks!
F.

You need a script to do so.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/115928#n8938148

Scroll to the bottom for the most recent version of the script.

The problem with this is that many users would use it to copy the data several times without editing things like ISBN, or any of the other data that is not the same, just the title, and nor correcting the work the book is in.

When I use the script, I do check these and adjust as necessary. For comics/manga, there are no ISBNs for individual issues, just collections. Theoretically, the issues have ISSNs - but older ones don't appear to as far as I can see. It's why I asked about adding ISSN to series-level data for periodicals.

Correcting the work is more problematic if the user doesn't understand combinations and how to take an individual title out when wrongly combined. For comics/manga, I found it easiest to look at the series and check any issue with ten times the numbers of later issues; I used to find Volume X incorrectly combined with Issue X...

Also please note: "This is a group for LibraryThing staff to announce and discuss new features and other improvements"

I think you wanted the Recommended Site Improvements group: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/559/Recommend-Site-Improvements

>4 Maddz: There is no way to limit the use of any new feature to just certain works or just certain users.