Can no longer combine...

[Fairywitch]

I tried combining books, and it just didn't work.
The ID didn't appear on the search, nor the titles.

What can the problem be?

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Probably the wrong author.

I moved your recent change to the right author so now you can combine.

[Fairywitch]

Thanks!
In general, I can only combine works from the author's list of books. Can't combine via searching for a ID or a title. I only get a "No titles by the author correspond to work ID" reply...

[Scott]

I found the title search (on the combine screen) wasn't working for me sometimes, or it was turning up different results in different instances yesterday. Maybe there is a bug.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Your problem was that the Hebrew title was on the wrong Rachel Joyce profile. (It had 2 spaces.) I have queued them to combine. Sometimes combine is sluggish.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Combine completed.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Fairywitch wrote: "In general, I can only combine works from the author's list of books. Can't combine via searching for a ID or a title. I only get a "No titles by the author correspond to work ID" reply..."

You need to have the "keyword" radio button selected to filter by parts of titles.

For the ID, you are probably using the book ID. You need to use work IDs -- see https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...