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bookcat isn't distinguishing between books with different sub-titles   


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  31st Dec 2017, 12:52 PM#1  REPORT  
ppint. ●

Member since Aug 2012
6393 Points
titles "doctor who the handbook: the first doctor" and "doctor who the handbook: the second doctor", where the colonned-off part is given as the sub-title, are being treated as identical.

I.e. bookcat is not comparing and discriminating between differing sub-titles.


  1st Jan 2018, 12:46 PM#2  REPORT  
TopPopper

Member since Mar 2013
2612 Points
Sometimes a book is re-printed/re-issued with an alternative sub-title (for example here and here. We wouldn't want those to be disconnected on the site, so sub-title changes are probably best ignored.

Having looked at the covers of the two books you mentioned, I think they should be entered differently - which also gets around the problem. See what you think:

here

and here


  1st Jan 2018, 9:27 PM#3  REPORT  
ppint. ●

Member since Aug 2012
6393 Points
's fine by this ppint. - just leaves us hoping future whovers model further handbook item entries on those.

- on the more general point: i dunno. having the two options, of forcing a link between apparently dissimilar book items as examples of one, and that of forcing non-linkinge between two different book items apparently the same from their titles, as separate, (or leaving the default automagically behaviour to operate) seems increasingly attractive - but possibly not an s.o.p., nor a doddle to code, test, debug and beta test.


Edited by ppint. on 1st Jan 2018, 9:43 PM

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