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3rd Jun 2020, 7:36 PM
	23skidoo Member since Jul 2014 4081 Points	Thanks for the reply on this. However it does get complicated with some titles. For example, the David Whitaker book Doctor Who in and Exciting Adventure with the Daleks - the title under which it was first widely published by Frederick Mueller and various publishers in the 1960s and 1970s - was later changed to Doctor Who and the Daleks when WH Allen's Target Books got the rights to it in the early 1970s. And in the in 1990s the book was officially retitled "Doctor Who: The Daleks" when Target/WH Allen dropped the practice of using "Doctor Who and..." - which also means an argument could be made that the book's correct title is now simply "The Daleks". Which one do I use, because my judgement as to what is the "most common" title may not align with others. And based upon precedent of other 45 Worlds sites, I've pretty much been conditioned that the first publication title is the main title and any variants that come later are alternative titles. Sometimes also the titles are so different that one searching for all indexed editions of a work may not be able to find them all here. For an example the Simon Templar short story collection "Boodle" is also published as "The Saint Intervenes" and both titles are equally common. And then there's the question of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" vs "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Can you see where the confusion lies to the point where I feel I literally cannot add any such titles to the index?