Regarding the more ambiguous cases of series I'd suggest a little research. http://shop.scholastic.com/webapp/...Dir=TeacherStore<http://shop.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SearchEndecaCmd?langId=-1&Ntk=TS_SI&submit2.x=0&catalogId=10002&NEW_QUERY_PARAM=true&Nty=1&Ntt=Scholastic+Bookshelf+paperback&viewParam=Search&storeId=10001&searchTerm=Scholastic+Bookshelf+paperback&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&submit2.y=0&N=0&jspStoreDir=TeacherStore> and http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Scholastic+Bookshelf+paperback&x=0&y=0and http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Scholastic+Bookshelf+paperback&x=0&y=0#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Scholastic+Bookshelf+hardcover&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AScholastic+Bookshelf+hardcovertell us quite clearly that most of the Scholastic Bookshelf books are paperbacks and that there is no series including the Paperback information, unless it is a series with only two editions. And as the last Amazon search indicates, there seem to exist hardcover books that go by a name including the (Scholastic Bookshelf (Paperback)) tag.
So the format remains ambiguous. Matthias On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 01:24, Alan Millar <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm cleaning up titles that have extraneous appendages on them, such > as series names. Right now I'm only working on works with a single > edition. > > Many have a series name appended to the title, where the series name > indicates a physical format, such as: > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1956408W > > Currently: > Work Title: Liver Cookies (Apple Paperbacks) > Edition Title: Liver Cookies (Apple Paperbacks) > Series: [empty] > Format: [empty] > > I assume this should be > Work Title: Liver Cookies > Edition Title: Liver Cookies > Series: Apple Paperbacks > Format: Paperback > > Is it safe to assume the format should be set to paperback if it is > currently empty and the series name contains it? > > How about if the parentheses make it a little more ambiguous? > > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL15299932W/ > > Currently: > Work Title: Fungus That Ate My School (Scholastic Bookshelf (Paperback)) > Edition Title: Fungus That Ate My School (Scholastic Bookshelf (Paperback)) > Series: [empty] > Format: Unknown binding > > What should the series be? Should it be "Scholastic Bookshelf", or > "Scholastic Bookshelf (Paperback)"? > > And (as above) should the format be set to paperback if it is blank? > What about "unknown"? > > (My favorite is the mismatched format and series like: > http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1927199W I'm not touching those...) > > Thanks for any advice. > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] >
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