Automatic Recommendation for a work I have

It's not a disaster, but something seems to be going wrong with "Recent Automatic Recommendations". I now have one for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, of which I already have a dozen copies listed.

(I checked, they are properly combined).

For reference: this work https://www.librarything.com/work/8288

Are there any other works in the list that you recognize as already owning, or is it just this one?

So far I just noticed this one

Okay, thanks.

>3 Nicole_VanK: I seem to recall having several such come up in the past, but when I checked my top several dozen automatic recommendations today, all three that I notice seemed to have at least some sort of combination issue. Some were real combination messes. :-) But I guess we have to cut some slack for faulty combinations, since those are partly our faults. :-)

It's possible that the editions generating the recommendation were combined between when the recommendations were generated and when you looked at them. kristilabrie, how often are automatic recommendations refreshed?

>6 lorax: Ah, quite possible. I'm not sure—timspalding has a better handle on all of those schedules—but I'll ask.

>6 lorax: Ah, yes, that is possible. I did fairly recently combine the "Penny Royal" Alices back into their work pages. (Though they're *very* nice editions, they're still just other editions).

>2 kristilabrie:

A bit of additional data on this, if it helps (I doubt it will, but just in case): I just looked at my recent Automatic Recommendations -- and there it was, yesterday: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

https://www.librarything.com/work/8288

I have, if I count right,
* Two pure "Alices Adventures" (just the text and illustrations, no other material)
* One Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
* Two different editions of "Alice's Adventures Underground"
* At least three Alices in "Collected Works" editions
* The Annotated Alice (both the first and the Definitive editions)
* Alice in Wonderland: The Norton critical edition
* Elucidating Alice: A Textual Commentary on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (which is another Alice with notes)

A lot of those certainly qualify as different works. But I have twelve editions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and seven of Through the Looking Glass. We have at minimum a combination problem. I suppose it could be argued that a person with all those editions -- and more than fifty biographies, letters collections, diaries, etc. of Lewis Carroll might want another edition -- but not a plain vanilla Alice!

The next item on my Automatic Recommendations list is also a curiosity: It's 7 plays: Alcestis / Children of Heracles / Cyclops / Heracles / Hippolytus by Euripides. I don't have that particular edition, I grant. But I have two "complete plays" plus the four volume Loeb Greek text and several anthologies of three or four Euripides plays. So that's a pretty redundant recommendation.

I'd file the Euripides in the "snort" category (that is, "I have a real Euripides and you're offering me this?"). But the Alice... is a very strange thing. And why did it just happen yesterday? Something seems to have suddenly made it start happening.

>9 waltzmn: Ehm, yeah : https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Nicole_VanK/carrolliana ;)

And I am interested in obtaining some other specific editions of AAiW, but I already have those wish listed

>10 Nicole_VanK: Ehm, yeah : https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Nicole_VanK/carrolliana ;)

You win. :-)

This is probably getting far beyond the field of bugs, but it's something to think about. I am not really a collector of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Oh, I revere the books, but as a reader, my collection is sufficient; I only have the two copies I have because I'm interested in how certain illustrators tried to improve on Tenniel.

My additional Carrolliana is specifically about Lewis Carroll, not the Alice books -- as an autistic adult, I am interested in showing that all of Charles Dodgson's peculiar behaviors, including his friendships with little girls, can be explained by his (undiagnosed but quite evident) autism, with no need to bring in any perversions. All of his oddities are quite typical of autism! (That's not to say that all autistics share all his behaviors, but they are all things found in many people with autism. Which is probably why he has so many autistic fans.)

Anyway, the point of this message is that much of my collection of Carrolliana is specifically intended to understand Dodgson the man (so, e.g. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, Letters of Lewis Carroll to His Child-Friends, The Letters of Lewis Carroll, The Diaries of Lewis Carroll). Based on that selection of books, what LT should be recommending is not more Alices but more biographies. :-) (Although I have, I believe, all the serious ones and the more important flaky ones. :-) So I shouldn't be getting an Alice recommendation because, apart from the fact that I already have the book, it's not really what my collection calls for, and you shouldn't be getting because, ehm, https://www.librarything.com/catalog/Nicole_VanK/carrolliana :-). So it's quite peculiar that we both got it.