Reading list: Halloween Book Bingo - Serial / Spree Killer

Agreed on all counts!

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Thank you!

("Stranger Beside Me", too -- did I miss it?)

No, I did - I saw the list below and the title in your opening sentence slipped through. Adding it now.

Thank you and no prob -- with all the book-adding and list maintenance I'm amazed you're still standing at this point!

*snort* the lists were easy - but while putting them together I discovered someone combined a bunch of connelly titles together and did it multiple times. I'm up to my eyeballs at the moment separating and recombining Bosch books. :-[

Oh, noes ... I tried to make sense of that muddle last year while Booklikes admin was MIA and eventually gave up (though I may have dumped a frustrated comment somewhere in the librarian group, don't recall -- I *do* distinctly recall my level of frustration, however).

Maybe now that Booklikes admin is substantially back on track, we can pull them in for support on that one? And don't even get me started on Conan Doyle ...

OMG if I have to seperate "The Complete Works" from "The Adventures of" one more time I'm going to start running amok. I've done it twice, I've made BookLikes do it at least once - if it happens again, I'm going to scream until a librarian is lynched. :-|

I've gotten The Narrows/Void Moon/Lost Light sorted out. But Concrete Blond is combined with at least two other titles and I don't even know if there are any others - those are the only two I found (accidentally while doing these lists). I'm afraid to look further, frankly.

Re: Connelly, I looked at all of them last year and tried to disentangle them several times, to no avail (and with BL slow as molasses into the bargain). Every d*ned time I'd separated every single edition of the wrongly-combined books and started re-combining only the right ones, bam!, the whole mess was back together again. I think the problem comes in through the non-English editions, which are combined with the English editions ... just not always the right ones, and there's no way to tell where source of the error is. This is a prime example why we need a mass edit / combine / separate function in order to be able to function efficiently as librarians ... if we could at least see at one glance which combine-errors are at the root of the problem, we could attack it there and be done with it! But I really did feel I was groping blindly last year, which is why I eventually gave up.

Re: Conan Doyle, you're a so much braver soul than me ... there, too. Those multi-story editions pulling contents from various installments of the canon (and which are then typically merrily combined with either "Adventures" or "Complete Sherlock Holmes") are a powerful enough deterrent in and of themselves for me not to ever want to touch that one ...

That's EXACTLY what happened to me one of the times I tried to clean up Doyle - and why I had a hissy fit and made BookLIkes do it on the back end. (This was while Kate was away.) It stated happening again the next time I found it all combined again, but I started out separating just two editions and combining them - and then one by one separated and combines each Adventure with the new 'main' one and I was able to get it done without it undoing itself. That's working well here with Connelly too at the moment. I haven't even looked at foreign language editions (which I suspect don't combine right anyway but never mind). If they rectangle these I'm going to cry. and then I'm never going to try to clean up bad combines again - I'm just going to bounce it back to BL.

And you know, you're preaching to the choir i.e. a mass combine/separate/merge tool. I keep begging but... *sigh*...

Haha, I know I'm preaching to the choir as far as our editing powers are concerned. Anyway, this really *is* a prime example why we need mass editing -- urgently.

I think the various different language editions of the Connelly books must have already been combined when I started the whole process last year. I know they don't auto-combine; nor do they actually show as combined "across languages" on the "so-and-so author's books" pages, in the "all editions of xyz book" pages, or in the little "other books by xyz author" preview window on a given book's page -- it's only in reading lists like this one right here, where a book will show as shelved by you even if you've shelved a different-language edition than the one listed (provided both the edition that you yourself have shelved and the edition appearing in the reading list are combined) that you can detect *any* sort of "cross-language" combination. Which might even be fine by me if we could be sure that the "behind the scenes" book combinations look and work the way they are supposed to ... which however unfortunately they don't.

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