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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Must be some memory.  I almost never remember the exact name, and I can't rely on Amazon/Kobo either, because they're inconsistent (as you said) and because I tend to shorten too long series names. |
Is it trivial and useless information that no one would want to remember? Yes. Can I remember a name or a face? Nope. Decades back when I was at university, I had one person make a suggestion that my housemates should post a photo of me on the bathroom mirror with a caption reading: "Good morning, your name is David".
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Author names are sometimes even worse. There may be a middle initial, or not; there may be a full first name or there may be initials instead of the first and middle name; there may be a period after the initial or not. And so on. On many occasions I ran the author count plugin and got the result that the author had only 1 book in my library, while I absolutely knew I had more by them; and of course there was some change or variation in the name, which I then fixed.
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I have one author who uses their two first names as CJ, C.J., C. J., Chris J and Chris J. Is he deliberately trying to make our lives more difficult?