Separate these editions, wrongfully merged

[Grace]

Hello,

The book The 48 Laws of Power has two versions: the original book and a concise version. As you can guess by the name, the concise version is way shorter.

The problem is, someone merged the concise versions of the book with the original. Here are the editions I found:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Can you separate them from the original book? I tried, but I guess it's a job for Superlibrarians.

Here are two more editions of the concise/condensed version that are alredy separated:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Thanks!

[David]

You are a librarian. Is there any reason you cannot do this yourself? Splitting does not require a superlibrarian.

[Grace]

I tried several times (in the span of 3 days). Marked all of them to be separated, got the message "It can take long, check in 15 minutes." but it never separated them.

Tried a different day, same thing. I don't know why it's not working.

[Dobby]

It seems to be a system problem:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Grace]

Thank you for sharing that, Dobby! I knew something's up.

Should I report it somewhere?

[David]

Have you tried separating from one by one from the combine screen?

[Grace]

Yes, I have, and it's not working either. Tested it today too (just in case), no result.

[David]

There is no documented privilege letting superlibrarians split editions where others can't. However, I simply marked all editions which said "concise" and clicked split and it seems to have worked.

[Tawnya]

Out of curiosity, how is this any different from the abridged books that we have to combine with their main titles? That has always struck me as odd since a book that is 150 pages cannot be the same as one that is 1,000. Whole scenes are missing. Some of the abridgements are so severe that CliffsNotes are closer to the original book.

[David]

I consider abridgements a sort of adaptation. Therefore, I do not combine abridgements with the original material.