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George And Martha

1EGBERTINA
Août 26, 2022, 12:36 pm

George And Martha is a group of sweet shorter stories for second graders. In Addition to the single editions with various titles Is a Complete Edition. LT has 488 listed under title of " Complete" & 1488 (approx) listed as just george and Martha I determined sameness based on identical covers- because the complete series has a different cover than individual covers However, i cannot combine- under the heading of too much love. Also having difficulty reading "combiners" section due to words overlapping. this is a bug- but it is only affecting combiners page.

2scott_beeler
Août 26, 2022, 8:15 pm

>1 EGBERTINA: Are you saying that you think the following two works should be combined because they are both the Complete, or both the individual first volume?
https://www.librarything.com/work/30117 (currently the first volume)
https://www.librarything.com/work/115836 (currently the complete collection)

They seem appropriately split when I look now. I don't know if anybody has cleaned anything up since you posted, but currently I don't see anything that would suggest they're the same. There aren't any editions in work 30117 with the word "complete" in the title, or any with the two major ISBNs in the Complete work (0395851580 and 0618891951). When I look at the covers for each, all 4 for the Complete work say "The Complete Stories of Two Best Friends", and it doesn't look like any of the 14 covers for the first volume say that. Most of the covers are *similar* -- yellow with the two characters -- but that just means the publisher(s) reused the first volume cover for the Complete edition with extra text added.

Even if there were some covers that didn't fit the work, sometimes that's because they've become wrongly attached to a given entry through previous merging and splitting -- not *necessarily* because the editions are currently wrongly merged or split.

3EGBERTINA
Août 26, 2022, 8:58 pm

Apologies. i see what u see, now. The Cover is confusing. Also, a paperback cover/titling made it seem as though it were a different book.

Do These books constitute a Series?

4EGBERTINA
Août 26, 2022, 9:01 pm

also,

does your first link than equal this link?

https://www.librarything.com/work/5109745/summary/223534847

or are they separate books. we need a george & martha expert. i am too newly acquainted

5EGBERTINA
Août 26, 2022, 9:09 pm

based on goodreads- two other titles --
the title i linked, and another are different books. but that is weird because those two titles are not included in the "complete" works.

6AnnieMod
Août 26, 2022, 9:29 pm

>3 EGBERTINA: Even if it was the same cover - a warning is in order. Be careful with combinations based on covers. If someone uses Amazon covers, they are based on the isbn. It is not uncommon for people to add a wrong book and fix the title but leave the Isbn (and sometimes even the cover) to still be the one for the old book. The basic rule is that titles beat ISBNs and covers in manual combinations. They can be used as a guide and a help but the title is what matters the most.

7Nevov
Modifié : Août 27, 2022, 3:38 am

There seems to have been some miscombinations, with the Early Reader versions containing fewer stories and adapted language for early readers (edit: looks to be the same text). From a bit of searching it looks like those books contain 2 or 3 stories, compared to the full 5 in the original volumes.

I'll do a bit of separation to try and get those apart from the original versions.

8Nevov
Août 27, 2022, 3:35 am

I think I've got it mostly tidied up, thanks to some Read-Along videos on Youtube :-)

A republishing has happened where they split some of the original 5-story books into two shorter books of 3 and 2 stories, (or 2 and 3). It doesn't look like they are adapted in any way, the ones I watched Read-Alongs kept the same wording as the originals. So I've relationship linked them as Contained In.

The Series has now got all of these included, with labels to try and explain what they are: for example book 1 was split into 1.1 and 1.2.

I'm sure there will be a bit of miscataloguing, or reviews/covers attached to the wrong edition, as some of the shorter books have the same name as the original, for example there is George and Martha One Fine Day (the original 5-story book), and George and Martha One Fine Day (Early Readers) (has only the first three stories of the five).

9EGBERTINA
Août 27, 2022, 11:09 am

>8 Nevov: thank you. that is very helpful information