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message 5: by David (last edited Jul 04, 2023 12:58AM) (new) - added it
Jul 04, 2023 12:47AM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments A: I think all seven are the same, queued
B-D: Queued


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Jul 04, 2023 11:14AM

Saturn (xsaturn) | 648 comments #I
1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

The covers are different but #2 is a duplicate created by the bot


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Jul 04, 2023 11:22AM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments Long queueing times today. A-D are now done and I'll do the rest later tonight.


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Jul 04, 2023 01:40PM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments Regarding E, I split those 15 editions but looking at them more closely, they seem like two distinct covers, this one with the yellow square:
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
And this one without it:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
What do you think?

ETA: After posting, I looked closer at this cover:
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
which solves the mystery: the yellow square is the sleeve. The one without it is the book itself. While I can merge them all, whichever choice I take for the cover, someone is bound to add the other cover. I will keep both and add an appropriate librarian note.


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Jul 04, 2023 04:19PM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments E-H queued
Regarding I, I think this is an ACE, and the ISBN should actually be on the bot edition. If you don't object, I will refer this to support
J-K queued


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Jul 05, 2023 07:39AM

Saturn (xsaturn) | 648 comments #E I think so too. I realized it seeing the image that had both covers.

#I: There are other duplicates:

3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
4: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

There is another book with the duplicate's cover and a different ISBN on Goodreads:

#L: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The covers are inverted on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbit-J-R-R...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbit-J-R-R...

Maybe we should change the covers and merge the duplicates with #I.


message 18: by David (last edited Jul 06, 2023 01:46AM) (new) - added it
Jul 06, 2023 12:48AM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments I am waiting for the previous batch to go through the queue before taking the next batch. Both splitting, deleting and combining now take a lot of time.
ETA: E-H, J-K done


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Jul 06, 2023 02:04AM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments I: queued
L: Amazon UK and Amazon US have contradicting covers for ISBN13 9786944717242:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hobbit-J-R-R...

Since prefix 69 is not specifically allocated, I don't think we should prefer any of them. At this point, I would rather leave things be than mess with them even more.
M-N: Queued


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Jul 07, 2023 12:33AM

David Raz (davidraz) | 12772 comments I, M, N Done, which I believe is all of them.


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Jul 07, 2023 04:35AM

Saturn (xsaturn) | 648 comments Thank you!


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