> However, it subsequently occurred to me that, to cater > for errors or misunderstandings in merging, a facility > is also needed to transfer works between authors and > editions between works.
This is a brilliant idea. Right now, moving works between authors is difficult. For example, this morning I am working on Charles Lamb, and I have had to rename the fighter pilot Charles Lamb so I can move his works that got caught up in the essayist Charles Lamb to him. There are so many Charles Lambs that he doesn't appear on the author drop-down list. When I am done moving his works to him, I will have to change his name back to just "Charles Lamb". To make matters worse, the bot that makes these changes is slow right now, so even though I changed the author's name last night, I had to wait until this morning for the change to go through so I could gather his works together. Just going to point out: the fighter pilot Charles Lamb only wrote the one book. All these editions I am gathering are the same work, and several are even the same edition. Sure wish I could merge these together to reflect that there really is only one work for this author. ;-) Sarah
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