The complete Robot: Duplicates

[Erez]

The book "The Complete Robot" appears a few times and probably needs a librarian merge. The links:


The Complete Robot
The Complete Robot
(and in parts, which is probably ok) -
The Complete Robot Part 1 Of 2
The Complete Robot Part 2 of 2


Can a librarian please assist?

Thank you.

[Michael]

Are you sure that all the editions contain the same stories? Depending upon when they were published, they might have differing contents.

[Banjomike]

The second one in the OP is a bit different. The book seems to have the same stories as the normal edition BUT:

"The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasurable reading experience. The series, which should appeal to a wide age range, exposes students to a variety of styles and kinds of English and the books contain puzzles and exercises based on the text. The grading system is based on lexical controls, structural controls and guidelines on sentence length and complexity. Books in Level 5 have a vocabulary of 2000 words."

This has a vocabulary of 600 words.

[Erez]

Great, I think it's settled then.

Thank you.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Banjomike wrote: "The second one in the OP is a bit different. The book seems to have the same stories as the normal edition BUT:

"The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasu..."

If it has the same content, its level of English difficulty hardly seems relevant to whether it should be combined.

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "If it has the same content, its level of English difficulty hardly seems relevant to whether it should be combined."

It has the same TITLES but the text will be very different. But no more different than a foreign translation.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

The text is not always different on such books. They frequently take exiting works and rate where they fit in their reading level scale, rather than editing to fit.

[Banjomike]

rivka wrote: "The text is not always different on such books. They frequently take exiting works and rate where they fit in their reading level scale, rather than editing to fit."

True, but suggesting that a collection of 31 of Asimov's best stories only has a vocabulary of 600 words is tantamount to blasphemy.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

heh! Ok, got me there.

But if they are matching lists of stories, I would still vote for combining them.

[vicki_girl]

I have been separating these as adaptations. Here is the worldcat info for the second link in the original post:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/complet...

It only has 48 pages and has been "abridged and simplified by Lewis Jones."

[rivka, Former Moderator]

Less than 10% the length would explain the 600 word thing.

Yeah, does sound like it should stay separate, then.

[Cait]

Also, it should probably list Lewis Jones in the primary author slot as "Adapter" -- that'll keep it from getting recombined, too.