Altered book titles

I have always believed that once information was entered into my library that only I could change that. I have recently discovered that hundreds of titles in my library are not what I entered. For example

Shooting Schedule by Warren Murphy

has become

Shooting Schedule (The Destroyer #79) by Warren Murphy.

I never enter the series name or number as part of the title. But this hasn't happened to every book in the series. Sometimes a publisher series name has been appended to the title. It is quite aggravating to have to correct all of these titles. I hope they do not change again in the future.

>1 rgurskey: It's probably a combination issue, when your title looses out to a longer title or when the other title has more entries.

Try clicking the 'recalculate title/author' button towards the bottom of the right panel.

Are these the titles displayed for the copies in your library (i.e., the information you entered)? Or the title for the overall work calculated by LT?

Because the first shouldn't be happening and I can't imagine how it could be. You are the only one who can change your data.

>2 Maddz:

It should remain the same in the OP's catalogue, though. And it hasn't.

Yikes. The title didn't come from the data source, from what I see in the book details, and the current title isn't the same as the aggregated work title.

This looks like a bug, a very strange one.

I have a very, very hard time believing that this can happen. The OP should make sure that no one else has access to their account.

The book record in OP's catalog shows the title as "Shooting Schedule (The Destroyer #79)" and data source is amazon.com. Amazon.com has the title as "Shooting Schedule (The Destroyer #79)" which exactly what I would expect from Amazon.

Unless OP edited his title after importing I really would have expected it to be "Shooting Schedule (The Destroyer #79)" from the start.

What did you mean when you said "I never enter the series name or number as part of the title"? Your book data isn't from manual entry, so the title was entered from Amazon.

It is also possible to get confused between viewing your personal data, and work data. Some catalogue display fields do use the aggregated work title data.

Touchstone for the example:
Shooting Schedule

Note: The canonical title was added today.

Summary* of rgurskey's book, on the details page:
"Destroyer 079: Shooting Schedule (Destroyer) by Warren Murphy (1990)"

* Doesn't this field usually show what's pulled in from the source?

>9 aspirit: Yes, it does pull in from the source. You can then edit the record in your catalogue but it’s not clear if this is what the OP has done.

I tried an experiment and removed the old canonical title which was Shooting Schedule and recalculated title/author. There was no change to the book title in OP’s account. I then reader the canonical title that had been previously entered still no change to OP’s book details. So, definitely not a bug.