Goodreads Librarians Group discussion

Is there anyway that the different language translations of this book could be listed as different books? I believe they have different ISBN numbers.

I have had a couple of readers from Germany tell me that they can't find German reviews of the German version (So Wie Kupfer Und Gold) because they are lost in the reviews of the English language version. Now the Italian one has the same issue.

The translation affects the story as does the language of the audience. I think it would be much more helpful to the reader if they could search for the book by title, and get information in the language they chose, and read reviews about the language edition they chose. They could always use the other language titles (including English) if they wanted that perspective.

I may be wrong but I think this would improve the reader and writer experience in Goodreads.

Can these three books be listed separately instead of being combined into one?

Right under community reviews it says "filter". If you click on it, you can choose to see only reviews of the edition you are looking at. I chose the German edition and got six German reviews, no English.

Personally I'm glad that different editions are combined on Goodreads. I sometimes read in German and shelve the German edition. But I still want to see my friends' ratings, and the reviews of people I follow, who might not read the same language as me.

Of course finding the right edition in another language is usually difficult. Especially if there are hundreds of them and the name is something that's the same in most languages... And then you would also have to click through all editions in that language.

Yes, it would be nice if search results / editions could be filtered by language, not just binding. But that belongs in the Feedback forum, not the librarian forum, I'm afraid.

Ine wrote: "Yes, it would be nice if search results / editions could be filtered by language, not just binding. But that belongs in the Feedback forum, not the librarian forum, I'm afraid."

On the "Other Editions" page, you can "expand details" (upper right, to the left of "combine editions." Then you can use your browsers find feature (Ctrl-F in Windows systems) to locate the most popular edition of the language that interests you.

Try that with "War and Peace" :P

Ine wrote: "Try that with "War and Peace" :P"

not a problem with German and French. For Russian, you have to go to page 2. I didn't try with any other languages.