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I'll acknowledge that in general, ISBNs are frequently unreliable. But I suspect that some wide-spread problems can be cut down a lot by clipping the wings of a few ISBNs.
For example, take ISBN 1559029838. It's the ISBN on every book in a bunch of volumes of classic literature Aerie Books sold at Walmart a few years back. If LibraryThing no longer used it suggest combinations, I suspect half the works on the A Tale of Two Cities combination list would no longer be on there. (While you're add it, make them not suggest covers, which will clean up a few more annoying things.) If you looked through every ISBN used in more than six works and stuck them into the same list, a lot of combine lists would be a lot easier to work with.
(1559029897 is another one, but for Oz books.)
For example, take ISBN 1559029838. It's the ISBN on every book in a bunch of volumes of classic literature Aerie Books sold at Walmart a few years back. If LibraryThing no longer used it suggest combinations, I suspect half the works on the A Tale of Two Cities combination list would no longer be on there. (While you're add it, make them not suggest covers, which will clean up a few more annoying things.) If you looked through every ISBN used in more than six works and stuck them into the same list, a lot of combine lists would be a lot easier to work with.
(1559029897 is another one, but for Oz books.)
