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Rebecca
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Aug 09, 2010 02:36PM
Terry Pratchett has a second author, Terri Pratchett, with his books duplicated in a foreign language. I think it is Russian or Polish. The authors need to be merged and the books combined. I am not sure of how to combine authors with different names listed, and don't know enough Russian to combine the books. Thank you so much for your help.
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I'm guessing this was a translation issue, since the Russian alphabet doesn't correspond to ours. I'll do the changes.
Authors combined, will work on the books now.
Okay, I've done as much as I can. Many of the books were beyond the reach of Google and Google Translator, though. I can't even pin down the language for sure -- I've gotten Czech, Slavik, Polish.
but names shouldnt be changed anyway, right?
Not trying to change the names, just trying to figure out which books they are so they can be appropriately combined with the other editions.
Have you checked worldcat.org? Sometimes the titles are translated for you.
Thanks for the suggestion. Haven't found translations so far, but the language has been pinned down to Russian.
Oh, I take that back! I hadn't looked far enough - they do have the English titles. Awesome!
willaful wrote: "Thanks for the suggestion. Haven't found translations so far, but the language has been pinned down to Russian."In case you don't know where to look, if the original title is included, it's usually in the Details section almost at the bottom in the field "Other Titles".
Okay, almost done. There are quite a few that were beyond worldcat though, or beyond my ability to use worldcat. They don't seem to have an ISBN search.
willaful wrote: "Okay, almost done. There are quite a few that were beyond worldcat though, or beyond my ability to use worldcat. They don't seem to have an ISBN search."All right, I think I eradicated the remaining "Terri Pratchett" or "Pratchett Terri" Russian books, and updated their info as appropriate. There are still some questionable Russian translations that might need work, but the majority should be fixed now.
Should the Original Title of Color of Magic be entered as "Colour of Magic" instead of Color of Magic ? That was the title on the 1st edition which was published in the UK?
Natalie wrote: "Should the Original Title of Color of Magic be entered as "Colour of Magic" instead of Color of Magic ? That was the title on the 1st edition which was published in the UK?"I would say so, yes.
BTW if anyone who was working on this before knows what the default desription for the first title:The Color of Magic was supposed to read before it was changed on Jan 04, 2011 02:21am (#6250559) to foreign language text, please feel free to replace the English language default description I substituted by copying the description text from Colin Smyth (publisher)'s website entries for the title's editions!
