Simple way to separate single book from large work?

[Emmy]

Hi all,

I noticed a request in the Book Issue & Author Page Issues-folder to split out a single edition from a main work consisting of 834 editions.

Is there a simple way to accomplish this? I inspected the Librarian Change Log of the book in question and found an update from Feb, 2018:
work_id: '57210100' to '1189079'
but there's only a flag, not an undo option.

[Renske]

What is the part of the process that is the issue for you?
To find the edition on the combine page or in the separate tool you can temporary edit the title to make it easier to find. After the separation is done you then revert that title edit.

[Emmy]

@Renske,

The problem for me was indeed finding the right edition in a list of 834 editions

Your tip to (temporarily) edit its title is a brilliant one.

[Arenda]

For that specific example there is no need to (temporarily) edit the title. Just use Ctrl-F to search for Cartas, an you'll find both editions. Not only the paperback edition but also the Kindle edition.

[Arenda]

And a more general answer: when there is a specific reason* that an edition needs to be separated, often it is a good idea to add a Librarian Note explaining why it should not be combined. Librarian Notes are visible on the combine page (unfortunately not on the separate tool page).

* Like adaptations that are incorrectly combined with the work they were adapted from, or samples incorrectly combined with the complete book.

And using your example from the first post:
Using the Work-ID (at the end of this URL: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...) on the combine page gives this page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/combin...

Advantage: you can read the Librarian Notes.
Disadvantage: you'll have to separate the paperback and the Kindle one after the other and combine them.

And another note: especially with more popular books, sometimes separating from the separate tool page isn't working. My experience is that separating from the combine page works better.