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How to set "main book" in the list of combined books
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I think you're talking about setting the default edition. On Goodreads, the default edition is the one shelved by the most users. If a particular translation has been shelved the most, it's the default regardless of whatever the original language of publication was. The only time the default edition can be overridden is if the primary author (who must be a Goodreads author, i.e., must have claimed their author profile on Goodreads) manually sets the default to a different edition.The "original title" field is a separate issue, but that's where you'd put the title of the original edition (in its originally published language). That field has nothing to do with which edition is default.
Thank You so much for the answer! Strange that it is not told in Librarian manual :)So, as long as I am the only one with this book on shelf, Lithuanian version will be default/main xD
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Monika wrote: "Thank You so much for the answer! Strange that it is not told in Librarian manual :)So, as long as I am the only one with this book on shelf, Lithuanian version will be default/main xD"
yes :)
rivka wrote:https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/1..."Thanks... :O Well, being non native English speaker I've searched all the wrong keywords then :O As Z-squared noticed I called it "main version", not primary/default edition..
But weird that I didn't remember this reading manual last year..
Thanks again!
The ability to change the default edition is a rather new function, so perhaps you did read the manual before this was created.
I found out, that a book I want to read in not on Goodreads, so, as a librarian, I added it. However, this book ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ) is a translation, and I thought that it's not good to see only a translation in author's list, so I googled for the original and added it. Then I combined those two books. But.. my translated book is still shown as a "main book" in author's book list: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... It's not OK.. I have set the "original title" as same for both, but nothing helps.. Please, can anyone tell me how do I set "main book" in the list of combined books? So that the original title shows up in author list, instead of the first created book?
Thanks.