LibraryThing Sort and Re-link on Combine/Separate Pages

By brightcopy Last update May 15, 2011 — Installed 757 times.

Script Summary: Adds the ability to alphabetically sort editions and changes "separate" links so you can open them in a new window/tab.



License: Public Domain

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This script will make two major changes to the author combination page and the work editions page. One both changes, a new link will be shown to allow you to sort the editions alphabetically. In the case of the combinations page, each work will have its own sort link. It will also change the links to "separate" so that you can easily open them as new windows or tabs. Prior to having this script, all "separate" links were javascript links that could only be opened in the current window, thus causing you to continually have to go back to the main page when you were doing a lot of separations.

The alphabetizing is done by throwing out any punctuation or whitespace characters before alphabetizing. It is also case-sensitive, but only if the two titles being compared are otherwise the same. Both of these changes are geared towards readability and grouping of similar titles together rather than strictly alphabetizing.

Note: I have updated this script to remove the sort and separate links on the editions page. My new Work Editions Grid supersedes this functionality.