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Literary Multitudes (literary_multitudes) | 18 comments Hi there!

How is the default description language to be determined?
Is the default description supposed to be in English or in the language the book is written in orinally? Or something else?

I'm wondering about this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

The default description has been changed to Arabic as far as I can tell. As it's a Russian original I would have thought that the default description should be in either Russian or English?

I can change the description from the editon I'm adding to an individual description from the back cover, but I was wondering if I should change the default edition back, too?

Thanks!


message 2: by Koenraad (last edited May 18, 2014 07:55AM) (new)

Koenraad (koenraadkelemen) | 6993 comments Since the greater majority of the shelvings are English editions, I would keep the default description in that language.

See this thread for more elaborate answer by Rivka on a similar question: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1....


Literary Multitudes (literary_multitudes) | 18 comments Thank you! And thanks for the link, I had searched, but not found that thread.
I'll change it back to English. Makes more sense to me, too.


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Lobstergirl https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Default description should not be Spanish.


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