The way books are displayed on Combine page

[Radka]

While combining Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds I noticed that some of the books on the Combine page are listed under their Persian or Japanese titles which makes it harder to find the right editions.

Shouldn't they be listed under their original title by default? Or is their order determined by other criteria?

[Sandra]

No, they should be listed in the language they are printed in, otherwise how would people who read that language know which book to look at? The order is determined by popularity, just like the default books.

I know what you mean re combining, I've had that problem myself, but it is just something we have to learn to live with.

[Iluzija]

They are ordered by their edition name, because you are combining editions. Besides, many people don't know the name of the original when they enter the book. If you want to propose something to be changed, go to feedback, here are only librarians.

[Radka]

I wasn't talking about the individual editions, I know their titles have to be in language they are written in.

My point is that on the main Combine page editions seem to be listed from the most popular to the least popular but after filtering them by title (which in case of Agatha Christie is really needed) they are listed from the least popular to the most popular resulting in Persian edition which wasn't added by any user to be listed as the main one next to the check box. It's a little confusing.

But you're right, this should be in feedback group. I just wanted to make sure I understood it correctly.

[Paula]

Can you post a link to the title you where filtering by please

[Radka]

I was filtering by titles starting with D since there's also an alternative title and I didn't want to miss any edition.

If you filter by actual title (Death in the Clouds or Death in the Air in this case), the editions are listed in the correct way. It's the filtering by initial letters where the editions are listed in the reverse order. Don't know if it's on purpose.

[Cait]

It used to be that when you filtered by first letter it would sort the editions in each book alphabetically, which I thought made a lot of sense, but yeah, it's definitely reverse popularity now. That sounds like a bug.

[Radka]

Thank you all for helping me to clear this out. I'm posting it to the feedback group. Hopefully they'll be able to do something about it.