1villemezbrown
All I wanted to do was add all the Ranma 1/2 books I had read to my library, but then I actually looked at the series and started getting confused and frustrated.
The series:
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/5017/Ranma-1%25252F2
This series has been published in multiple editions with varying numbers of volumes. Unfortunately, most of the volumes of the other editions are currently combined into the volumes of the original series.
My biggest quandary right now is with the original 38 volume series, the 36 volume series, and the 50 volume series. These books all began asynchronously: Vol. 1 of 38 has Chapters 1-8, Vol. 1 of 36 has Chapters 1-14, and Vol. 1 of 50 has (I believe) Chapters 1-4. But in the middle of the latter two series, the editors changed course and synched up again with the original series. So Vol. 19 of 38 has Chapters 191-201; Vol. 17 of 36 has Chapters 191-201, and Vol. 31 of 50 has Chapters 191-201. All three series continue through the end with the same contents but different volume numbers. (Actually, the 50-volume work synchs up even earlier, with it's Vol. 25 of 50 being equivalent to Vol. 13 of 38.)
So, to organize this series, would it be best to:
1) Separate all the volumes for the three different editions and treat them as different books and group them together on the series page as such?
2) Combine Vol. 19 of 38, Vol. 17 of 36, and Vol. 31 of 50 into one work since they have the same contents, and note the differing numbering systems on the Alternate Title lines and put lots of disclaimers in the Disambiguation field? (Keep in mind that first I will have to separate the volumes of the latter two series anyway since they are currently combined with the wrong corresponding volume number of the original series: Vol. 17 of 36 is with Vol. 17 of 38, and Vol. 31 of 50 is with Vol. 31 of 38.) To make the series coherent, instead of using groups, I anticipate I would have to create separate sub-series for the 36- and 50-volume editions so the combined work could be assigned to multiple edition series pages.
3) Come up with a different strategy entirely?
4) Ask someone else to take care of it so I can move on with my life.
5) Pretend I never opened this can of worms in the first place and move on with my life.
So far I started to do Option 1) with volumes 1 and 2 of each set, using the Group fields to distinguish. But I realized this could be an error and now I seek the wisdom of the group before I proceed any further or just default to Option 5).
Help!
The series:
https://www.librarything.com/nseries/5017/Ranma-1%25252F2
This series has been published in multiple editions with varying numbers of volumes. Unfortunately, most of the volumes of the other editions are currently combined into the volumes of the original series.
My biggest quandary right now is with the original 38 volume series, the 36 volume series, and the 50 volume series. These books all began asynchronously: Vol. 1 of 38 has Chapters 1-8, Vol. 1 of 36 has Chapters 1-14, and Vol. 1 of 50 has (I believe) Chapters 1-4. But in the middle of the latter two series, the editors changed course and synched up again with the original series. So Vol. 19 of 38 has Chapters 191-201; Vol. 17 of 36 has Chapters 191-201, and Vol. 31 of 50 has Chapters 191-201. All three series continue through the end with the same contents but different volume numbers. (Actually, the 50-volume work synchs up even earlier, with it's Vol. 25 of 50 being equivalent to Vol. 13 of 38.)
So, to organize this series, would it be best to:
1) Separate all the volumes for the three different editions and treat them as different books and group them together on the series page as such?
2) Combine Vol. 19 of 38, Vol. 17 of 36, and Vol. 31 of 50 into one work since they have the same contents, and note the differing numbering systems on the Alternate Title lines and put lots of disclaimers in the Disambiguation field? (Keep in mind that first I will have to separate the volumes of the latter two series anyway since they are currently combined with the wrong corresponding volume number of the original series: Vol. 17 of 36 is with Vol. 17 of 38, and Vol. 31 of 50 is with Vol. 31 of 38.) To make the series coherent, instead of using groups, I anticipate I would have to create separate sub-series for the 36- and 50-volume editions so the combined work could be assigned to multiple edition series pages.
3) Come up with a different strategy entirely?
4) Ask someone else to take care of it so I can move on with my life.
5) Pretend I never opened this can of worms in the first place and move on with my life.
So far I started to do Option 1) with volumes 1 and 2 of each set, using the Group fields to distinguish. But I realized this could be an error and now I seek the wisdom of the group before I proceed any further or just default to Option 5).
Help!
2karenb
This is a large project, and I have no suggestions to make for how to organize it. If/when a plan is decided, I will help implement it.
Looking at the Wikipedia page seems helpful, listing the chapter numbers and titles for the original Japanese and English language editions. But that doesn't include any translations into other languages (Spanish and Portuguese). The editions page on LT for a given volume shows more than three ISBNs, so maybe those are for ebooks too?
Example: Volume 15 (core) has more than ten ISBNs, including five singletons and ten books without ISBNs. That's a lot of research, so this seems like a large project that will a lot of person-hours to plan. (Like I said, I'll help! But manga and comics are specialty areas in which I have little knowledge, so I will leave the planning to others.)
Looking at the Wikipedia page seems helpful, listing the chapter numbers and titles for the original Japanese and English language editions. But that doesn't include any translations into other languages (Spanish and Portuguese). The editions page on LT for a given volume shows more than three ISBNs, so maybe those are for ebooks too?
Example: Volume 15 (core) has more than ten ISBNs, including five singletons and ten books without ISBNs. That's a lot of research, so this seems like a large project that will a lot of person-hours to plan. (Like I said, I'll help! But manga and comics are specialty areas in which I have little knowledge, so I will leave the planning to others.)
3villemezbrown
>2 karenb: Thanks for the supportive message! Yeah, the Core series has lots of the other editions mixed in. I pulled together the first three volumes of the 20-volume series using the Goodreads series editions, and half of the ISBNs for each volume were with the Core volume of the same number and half were just free floating with no series information whatsoever. That's a fairly easy sort, at least, but I set it aside when I realized how much worse shape the other editions were in.
4Stevil2001
Combine Vol. 19 of 38, Vol. 17 of 36, and Vol. 31 of 50 into one work since they have the same contents, and note the differing numbering systems on the Alternate Title lines and put lots of disclaimers in the Disambiguation field? (Keep in mind that first I will have to separate the volumes of the latter two series anyway since they are currently combined with the wrong corresponding volume number of the original series: Vol. 17 of 36 is with Vol. 17 of 38, and Vol. 31 of 50 is with Vol. 31 of 38.) To make the series coherent, instead of using groups, I anticipate I would have to create separate sub-series for the 36- and 50-volume editions so the combined work could be assigned to multiple edition series pages.
I think this is what I would do-- I did something like this when I organized the Pokemon manga, where different languages use different schemes, but sometimes the contents of volumes line up.
5MottoJouzu
If you know that the content is exactly the same, I would combine each volume of each edition with the corresponding original tankobon. You can then create 3 publisher series (a lot of people create simply a new series, but I think this is not correct), one for each edition, to see the cover order. Separate all the editions would be also acceptable for me. Regarding separate and combine, I found this kind of mess with each manga series I add to my library so I understand the pain...
