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message 1: by Nouran (new)

Nouran (nour) | 4 comments Hello all,
I'd like to ask about something. When we combine books translated into differnet languages together, a problem occurs with the search. For example, There is Gibran Khalil Gibran's book "The Broken Wings". Actually the primary language of this book is Arabic! However, when I combined the Arabic edition (which was listed as a separate book) into the 11 others, it stopped showing up in the search when I type الأجنحة المتكسرة, which is Arabic for "The Broken Wings". So, what do you think?


message 2: by Melody (new)

Melody (runningtune) | 13300 comments I just copied الأجنحة المتكسرة in the search field and got Broken Wings. Not sure why it didn't come up for you.


message 3: by Nouran (new)

Nouran (nour) | 4 comments Thanks a lot for your help. I guess I should've waited for some time before searching again. I have another question. There is a duplicate record for the same edition (Love in the Time of Cholera, Arabic translation), and it just wouldn't let me edit the ISBN of the one that doesn't have it already, so that both would be merged into the same edition. Here are the two links, for the SAME editon:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...

Thanks a million.


message 4: by Melody (new)

Melody (runningtune) | 13300 comments I separated them - deleted the duplicate so that the reviews would combine with the edition with the ISBN number - then combined that edition back with the other listings for Love in the Time of Cholera


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