How to divide Books from full cast dramatisations?

[sabisteb aka callisto]

Often full cast dramatizations are combined with the according book. How does one divide these from the books, as the dramatization are something complete different and have thus different Reviews which can’t be compared with the book reviews?
Additionally some people (me) read the books AND listen to different dramatizations, which shouldn't be combined also. A book is a book in different issues, full cast dramatizations however differ widely.

E.g. German full cast dramatitisation combined with the english book.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

[Cait]

If they're readings of the original book, then they're audiobook editions no matter how many narrators there are. You can have separate reviews of different combined editions.

[sabisteb aka callisto]

No readings, I don't mean audio books. More like a film without pictures. They sometimes differ a lot from the books. Sometimes they are much better than the book, sometimes worse.

I had the problem with the hunchback of notre dame
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45...

First it was hard to find an edition, which had not my full cast dramatization review incorporated. Now there are english reviews of the english Book combined with a german full cast dramatization.

If I want to know, how this dramatization is, it's nearly impossible to find the right reviews. The book is dreadfully boring, the dramatization really gripping.
I have lot's of these cases as I love full cast dramatizations.

Additionally, the dramatization has a french description of the book instead of cast information.
http://www.titania-medien.de/cms/hoer...

[Cait]

Ah! Okay. That falls under the "adaptations" rule, so it should be separate (you can search under "radio plays" for some previous discussion). The primary author here should actually be Marc Gruppe and Victor Hugo should be secondary. To be clear, this is separate not because of the cast who is doing the reading but because what they are reading is Marc Gruppe's adaptation and not Victor Hugo's original work. If there were two different casts doing readings of Gruppe's work, they would be combined together.

Do you want to do the fixes on this book? You'd need to separate out this edition from the others, then move Victor Hugo to the secondary author slot and put Marc Gruppe in as the primary author with a role of "Adapter" (or the equivalent in German, since this is a German edition). If you'd rather, I could make the changes on this.

"If I want to know, how this dramatization is, it's nearly impossible to find the right reviews."

It is possible to easily find the reviews of a particular edition, though: under the community reviews, select "filter" and then "this edition".

[sabisteb aka callisto]

How do I separate this edition? Can you give me a link, where it is described? I'm new Librarian and I think I might spezialise in full cast dramatizations (DE. Hörspiele), as they are my favorite topic for reviews *G*.

[Cait]

There are two ways to separate editions:

1. From the combine page, find a particular edition within a book's combined editions and click on the "separate" link after its title. This will separate the edition into a new book containing only that edition.

2. Or, from the list of all editions of a book, click on the "separate" link on the right-hand sidebar. In the separate page which opens, select all of the editions to be separated and then click on the "separate editions" button. This will separate all of the selected editions together into a new book containing all of those editions.

Method 2 is useful when you have several editions which ought to be combined with each other but not with the larger list of editions; you can separate them without having to then recombine them in the smaller group. If you only have one edition which will stand alone, you can separate it either way.

[sabisteb aka callisto]

THX, it worked!