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message 1: by Devin (new)

Feb 05, 2013 04:00AM

The book I'm linking to is a report written in both Swedish and Finnish. The entire text of the report is available in both languages. Since I have to pick one, should I pick the one first mentioned in the title?

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message 2: by Koenraad (new)

Feb 05, 2013 05:23AM

Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 7016 comments

I don't know if there's an official policy about this, but there is an option 'Multiple languages'. And I would put a remark 'Bilingual: Swedish / Finnish' in the description field.

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message 3: by Devin (new)

Feb 05, 2013 05:31AM

That's what I ended up doing. :)

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message 4: by vicki_girl (last edited Feb 05, 2013 10:29AM) (new)

Feb 05, 2013 10:21AM

Here are the only relevant discusions I could find:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/4...
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Putting the information in the description or the edition field is the only option at this point. ~~As for the primary language field, it should either be the original language, or the language of the target audience, if neither laguage is the original.~~

ETA: I read too quickly and didn't realize 'Multiple languages' is an option.

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