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System to discern series/authors with identical names when manually adding books/data
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elslovesreading
Mar 10, 2026

I regularly find myself manually adding data to existing titles or completely adding new books onto Storygraph. I really enjoy doing this and contributing to the community. However, it's difficult when there are multiple authors/series with the same name already logged into the system, and I don't know which one of these identical names/series to select. There's a 4-digit code attached to the names, but no clear information on what it means.
I've noticed that this has clearly been an issue for other people before, too, as I've seen some book series with books from completely different series that just happen to share the same name grouped together. I'm unsure how to report this either, as 'the series isn't called x, it's called x' doesn't seem particularly helpful!
I'd love for this to be remedied :)

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ninj
Mar 26, 2026

If next to the name and code it just had their #1 most popular book / entry, I think that would go a long way to mitigating the ambiguity.

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Nadia
Mar 12, 2026

Yes, it's something I need to sort for sure!

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