Zach Wolf
- zachwolf
- JIRAUSER532479
- Europe/Stockholm
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Zach Wolf that is a different issue. Books not stacking with each other is due to their NBT. This bug report is about the function of the anvil before saving the custom name instead.
@Anonymous Turtle and Zach Wolf, thank you for providing the workaround. However, I have removed your attachments from this ticket because they might be irritating since they don't actually showed the bug and additionally had generic names such as 2020-07-....
I have updated the report and included the workaround, so I hope this change is alright for you.
As [Helper] Jack McKalling pointed out, the issue that the items do not stack is a different bug (tracked as MC-125046).

The spacebar trick allows the original name to be restored, but it doesn't allow stacking with similar items.
I tested with a book. Steps:
Expected results:
Renamed book can be stacked with items as before
Actual results:
Renamed book can not be stacked with items
I'm still seeing this behavior in 1.16.2