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message 1: by Paw3pals (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Please fix the above author names to match the below record and then combine them, thanx.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...


message 2: by Paw3pals (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments And another one.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Fix above to match below & combine; thanx.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37...


message 4: by Bea (last edited May 27, 2013 03:51AM) (new)

Bea #1 and #2 done


message 5: by Paw3pals (last edited May 27, 2013 04:25AM) (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments Deleted post.


message 6: by Renske (new)

Renske | 12233 comments 3 and 5 done


message 8: by Paw3pals (last edited May 27, 2013 04:40AM) (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments Thanx for figuring out 5; I deleted the post so I could figure out Don and/or Donald and by the time I found both had been used on different editions, you were working on it.

And now another one.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Names above should match below & combine.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...


message 9: by Paw3pals (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Names above should match below & combine editions; thanx.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...


message 10: by Paw3pals (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Names above should match below & combine editions; thanx.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...


message 11: by Bea (new)

Bea #10 done


message 12: by Renske (new)

Renske | 12233 comments 7-9 done


message 13: by Paw3pals (last edited May 27, 2013 05:36AM) (new)


message 14: by Paw3pals (last edited May 27, 2013 06:53AM) (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

Regarding message 13, the above hardcover edition (the last link) is grouped with 570 other editions! Of any and all translations of Lae Tzu's words! I would maybe leave only 1 edition in that grouping, if it had to be there at all.

Putting the name Lao Tzu as an author, which is like putting God in a database as the author of any bible, seems really unworkable because of the numbers involved.

As Lao Tsu is not on the cover as an author can the name be taken off the hardcover edition?

And below is an ebook edition to join with the original group.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87...

As there are 570 editions now, I guess they all have to be combined in that group?


message 15: by Paw3pals (new)

Paw3pals | 1939 comments OK, I've been reading the manual. I may be wrong but it seems to me that Lao Tsu should not be the FIRST author/editor listed, he should be at the end. Use the actual authors/translators/editors on the book covers first. Then, editions of the same book would be grouped together, and still show up as books under author Lao Tsu. Without running into the 570 combined editions for however many separate books there are.

That would mean that those 570 editions would have to be gone through, uncombined and then recombined with names in the proper order, with Lao Tsu Not In The First Position.

Does that sound workable? And an experienced librarian or superlibrarian would have to initiate it.


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