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Please Combine (some more)
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Th...A couple of these can be combined as well.
Another author combine situation:
C.S. Lewis is aka Clive Staples Lewis.
He wrote under the former.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Looks like some combineable titles on the author pages as well.
https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...Also - the authors are an issue here. One is H. Daniel Zacharias (how its printed on the front of my book), and one is Danny Zacharias.
The second Author is Benjamin K. Forrest. "Danny" seems to be the one prefered by the author as his GR author profile page has his name listed that way...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
AND
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Please combine:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
* Please keep both authors, "Tiqqun" and "Comité invisible", and also please add the author "Invisible Committee". Technically this is anonymous, but people commonly know that it was written by one or more of these authors.
* The difference in title ("Call" or "The Call") is a translator's decision.
https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...The first title by Conybeare is in the first page of results several times, and there are at least two authors that will need combined (date names).
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
AND
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Also these two authors:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
AND
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Ro...there are a few!
Plus combine-able authors pages.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
AND
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Thanks in advance! :)
Ken wrote: "Bibles not authored by anonymous:https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...
Also I suspect Gideons, Gideons international, and..."
I'm guessing no one has tackled this because it's not clear what you want done. Which books in particular do you want combined?
Z-squared wrote: "Ken wrote: "Bibles not authored by anonymous:https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...
Also I suspect Gideons, Gideons intern..."
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w...
near the top it talks about religious texts being attributed to anonymous. Not to - in this case - a bible society.
Also - these are the same book, different editions, same content.
Some of the others may be as well. Sorta looks like they made a new edition for each cover variant.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Gideons have dozens of different covers. I bet if I had the time to do some searches we'd find dozens more that ought to be combined.
Finally the third part of the request was to fix the author pages:https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Is the proper name for the same group:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
There was a third group, but its not appearing in the search results.
I didn't think we wanted organizations appearing as authors either?
907 done908 done
re 909, it looks like publishes under both names; editions combined and pen name added
re 911, in order to combine works, all works must share the same primary author. In this case, I used Tiqqun, which I hope is correct...?
912-916
Re 918: Ah. Ok. Gideons merged and authors changed to anonymous on bibles (all except kids bible, which had an editor listed, so it probably counts as an "adaptation," in which case the editor is the primary author). The thought of trying to combine bible editions makes me panic though because I don't know enough to combine properly. If another librarian with more knowledge wants to take a crack at it, so be it.
Z-squared wrote: "Re 918: Ah. Ok. Gideons merged and authors changed to anonymous on bibles (all except kids bible, which had an editor listed, so it probably counts as an "adaptation," in which case the editor is t..."Fortunately bibles are my specialty. All of my degrees are in bible.
Children's bibles usually are adaptations. less content, trimmed back to stories. but not always. sometimes they are paraphrases, or actual real translations that use much simpler language.
Editors are going to be present even if not listed. usually they are translated by entire teams of people, who report to a team of editors... whether all that makes it to the cover or not is another story. Most of the time not, except in the case of study bibles, which have the teams of hebrew, greek, and aramaic (and sometimes latin) translators, hebrew, greek, and aramaic (and sometimes latin) editors, the authors of the study bible notes, and the study bible note editors. All of whom will frequently report back to an editor in charge.
Clear as mud? LOL
Safe to say these I linked are the same. all KJV translation, all mass produced by the gideons, which is a team of business men that order together for bulk discount, bibles of a certain specification (small pocket sized, or the bigger ones you find in hotel drawers) for distribution in a host of languages.
https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Ho...Also authors that need combined on those two titles as well:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
AND
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Self is the last name, middle name should have 2 L's at the end.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...AND
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Likewise the authors of both should be combined.
Bibles really are a mess... https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...
First ten are the same. page counts are going to vary because of the type of paper. some use that nearly transparent paper, some use thicker paper... margin size... etc etc etc.
These next ones need the author updated to anonymous and away from several random things, or organizations.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
There may be more than 10 combineable, but i quit looking after that. Suspect this could be a massive project for someone.
https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...Getting tired, probably going to finish this shelf, and then call it a night. hopefully there won't be too many more that need fixed tonight.
Thanks!
#927 doneBut please check this list, if there are some books need combining
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...
#928 & 929 are doneEdit:
#930 & 931 are done
#932 already combined
#933 done
Ismail wrote: "#927 doneBut please check this list, if there are some books need combining
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list..."
Yup a few more:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Those four are the same. same translation, and no study notes or other features that make it in any way different.
These can be combined as well - they both have words of Christ in red, the only difference seems to be one announces it while the other doesn't.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Thanks again Ismail :)
Hey friends. As per this thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... the following editions can be combined. The error is in the automated import from Amazon (?) despite the books being added manually. "My" author name has a double space.Real: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Dupe: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Real: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Dupe: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Real: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Dupe: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Real: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Dupe: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Real: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Dupe: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
#934-936 done#937 two books were combined, and I'm not sure about the others
#938 & 939 done#940 the first two are combined
Hi!What would we do without Goodreads Librarians! Thanking you in advance.
I would like to request that my new books be added to my book series, Men of Mulhany Crossing: https://www.goodreads.com/series/1825...
New Books:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
And I'm unable to delete the placeholder cover for my July 2018 Harlequin Book, The Secret Son's Homecoming.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
With many thanks,
Helen.
Looks like somebody did 943. If a book is added to the database with a slightly different title (like one has the series name in it, the other does not), then it won't get combined automatically. Instead, a human will have to intervene. That happens often if metadata on various editions coming in from multiple database updates aren't identical.
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Also I suspect Gideons, Gideons international, and gideons international staff are likely (except maybe the staff one) the same.
Their goal is the publishing and disbursal of bibles. Suspect you will find a lot of bibles with them as author, instead of publisher. Probably many that can be combined as well.