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Merges Required: The Stand (don't worry, not doing the entire book)
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All the following is still queued. I am leaving for an hour and hopefully it will be done by the time I return.1. Someone changed the cover of this edition. After reverting their change, the cover matches ISBN 9780307743688, so that's where I merged it. Fun fact: at 9,120 reviews, it is the biggest merge I did since the 10k limit was imposed. My record merge for which I took a screenshot is 123,560 reviews, but I think I did a million merge once.
2-7. Done
8. You are correct. The cover is obviously the 1980 Signet mass market paperback 451-E9013 (cover price $2.95). I moved the ISBN and merged as you suggested. I could not find a target to merge the E9013 edition. Perhaps you can.
Thanks for the help. There are enough subtle variants of the Randall Flagg/Crow cover out there that figuring out what edition needs to be merged with what other edition would take some time, but I might return to this thread sometime in the future if I can sit down and untangle all of that.
All except #1 are done. #1 merge is still ongoing - I will come back tomorrow and check it.I took the opportunity to remove a couple of dozen obviously empty editions, including the inevitable shish kebab edition. There's still much to do.
1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9... – Despite very clearly being a photo of a copy of ISBN 9780307947307 with a removable sticker pasted on the cover, it has been listed as a separate edition and associated with the ISBN-10 of a completely unrelated mass market paperback edition (ISBN 9780307743688). It needs to be merged with ISBN 9780307947307.
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780451169532, needs to be merged
3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – This is labeled as an ACE of ISBN 9780451169532, but you can clearly tell that the linked edition and ISBN 9780451169532 have the same cover; the only difference is that the linked edition’s cover art is a scan of a physical book where the cover is cropped and the colors came out weird.
4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780307947307, needs to be merged
5. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780307947307, needs to be merged
6. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – Has no ISBN, the publisher is listed as “First Anchor Books Movie Tie-In Edition” (that edition is actually ISBN 9780593313886) and it is using the current cover art from the ebook/Kindle edition (ISBN 9780385528856/ASIN B001C4NXKM). There has never been a trade paperback edition with the 2020 miniseries tie-in cover, only a mass-market paperback. Needs to be merged with ISBN 9780593313886.
7. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Blank duplicate of ISBN 9780307987570.
8. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... – This is an edition that has never existed. The cover art being used is from a paperback edition; you can tell because of the price and publisher information in the top right corner of the cover. I’ve worked in libraries handling old paperbacks throughout my life, and this is exclusively a mass market paperback thing.
Additionally, the black/dark blue cover art with Randall Flagg’s face and a crow has only ever been used on paperback editions, and only in the 1990s, certainly not in 2022 like when the book is labeled. The ISBN-10 0385199570 and ISBN-13 9780385199575 previously belonged to the 1990 Complete & Uncut Hardcover (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...), but should now be on the current US hardcover that has been in print since 1993 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – here’s the publisher site as proof, too: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...).
As such, the current ISBN 9780385199575 needs to be merged with this edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...