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1BookHavenAZ
When I added "Whitney, My Love" by Judith McNaught, ISBN 0671776096, it comes up in Common Knowledge as Hercule Poirot #28. No doubt this would astonish Dame Agatha. I tried to access it by double-clicking in the series field but it won't let me do anything. Evidently the Library Thing would really, really like Whitney to belong to the Poirot canon. It's not the first series error I've run into but it's certainly the most egregious. Is there a regular reporting route for errors in Common Knowledge? I don't understand how the new system works and I don't have a lot of time to play around trying to figure it out.
2amanda4242
>1 BookHavenAZ: Looks like Whitney, My Love was mistakenly auto-combined with the Christie title. I've separated it and combined it with the correct work.
If something like this pops up again you can ask for help in the Combiners! group. https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/460/Combiners%21
If something like this pops up again you can ask for help in the Combiners! group. https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/460/Combiners%21
3newcrossbooks
>1 BookHavenAZ: It wasn't a problem with Common Knowledge, or a series error - it was a problem with two books possibly sharing the same ISBN (or, more probably, there being a book listed on LibraryThing using the wrong ISBN).
If you search LibraryThing for 0671776096 you find that there are two matches - "Whitney, My Love" by Judith McNaught and "After The Funeral" by Agatha Christie. The search result for "After The Funeral" has a warning added - "This is a secondary, minority match and may be the result of ratty data". There are 3 copies listed under this ISBN for "Funerals Are Fatal", a US edition of "After The Funeral" (but Worldcat lists no editions of the title with this ISBN).
I found that a batch of 15 copies of "Whitney, My Love" were combined with "After The Funeral", presumably because of the ISBN duplication, though it's disappointing they didn't automatically join the rest of the "Whitney, My Love" books. I assume the book you entered was one of these. I've seperated them and added them to the correct Judith McNaught title. I hope that this has cured your problem.
If you search LibraryThing for 0671776096 you find that there are two matches - "Whitney, My Love" by Judith McNaught and "After The Funeral" by Agatha Christie. The search result for "After The Funeral" has a warning added - "This is a secondary, minority match and may be the result of ratty data". There are 3 copies listed under this ISBN for "Funerals Are Fatal", a US edition of "After The Funeral" (but Worldcat lists no editions of the title with this ISBN).
I found that a batch of 15 copies of "Whitney, My Love" were combined with "After The Funeral", presumably because of the ISBN duplication, though it's disappointing they didn't automatically join the rest of the "Whitney, My Love" books. I assume the book you entered was one of these. I've seperated them and added them to the correct Judith McNaught title. I hope that this has cured your problem.
4spiphany
Series are no longer part of the Common Knowledge section, but have been moved to "Series and Work Relationships".
For a few weeks after the introduction of the new series system, there was still an uneditable "series" field in CK, but it has since been removed. Where were you seeing an uneditable series entry?
For a few weeks after the introduction of the new series system, there was still an uneditable "series" field in CK, but it has since been removed. Where were you seeing an uneditable series entry?
