Sort by title query

[Girl From the North Country]

When adding the "sort by title" field, if the book title is:

Sins Arise: The Hunted Miniseries (Book #1)

Would the sort by title section be the same, or would it be:

"SIns Arise: Hunted Miniseries, The" (since "The Hunted Miniseries" is theoretically a series)? and would it i exclude the "#1" portion altogether?

Thanks

[Scott]

The correct format for the title would be Sins Arise (Hunted, #1).

Do not do anything with the sort-by title. It will fill in automatically. (But "Sins Arise" would be all that is necessary there.)

[annob [on hiatus]]

A benefit of having the series information also in the sort field is the ability to search for the series name on the combine page. If it's only in the title field, a combine page search won't find it.

[lethe]

For the benefit of readers in other languages than English: if the book title starts with a definite or indefinite article, the sort-by-title field should be filled in manually, with the article last.

If there is a series title, you can leave it the way it is. For the sorting, the system only looks at the first words.

[Scott]

Recently I was handling a book and when I set the language GR automatically sorted the article correctly.

[lethe]

Scott wrote: "Recently I was handling a book and when I set the language GR automatically sorted the article correctly."

It depends on the language. It never happens with Dutch books. Also, words that are an article in one language can have another meaning in another language. F.e., 'die' means 'the' in German and Afrikaans, but in Dutch it means 'that' or 'those', so should not be moved to the end.

And Dutch 'de' means 'the', but in Latin it means 'on' or 'about'. De Bello Gallico should not be sorted 'bello gallico, de' :)

[Dobby]

This is good information to know, Lethe. Thanks for sharing.

[lethe]

Thanks, Dobby. It is possible that the system is programmed to recognize the articles of some of the most common languages if the language field is filled in, but I daresay those are the exceptions.

For most languages that use articles, the sort-by-title will have to be filled in manually.