When I am searching for a book that I have read, I want the most information-salient edition to appear first in the results. A few examples:
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If I've read a book twice in two different editions, I typically will only put a full review in the first one I've read, and then just do a star rating for the second read-through so that it will factor into the stats correctly. But often, when I search for that book later, the edition with just the star rating appears first, and when I try to read my review, I then have to go into the edition searcher and scroll an unknown number of editions down to find the one I'm looking for.
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If I have a book that has one edition with a DNF and one edition that I finished (happens often when I read an audiobook and digital edition at the same time and want to log reading for both), it seems like without fail, the DNF edition appears first in search. Again, I need to then go into editions and scroll for an unknown number of entries before I come across the one I actually care about. This in particular leads to a momentary confusion of "wait, DNF?? I really thought I finished that??" until I remember why I'm seeing that.
Re the ordering, we show the one with your latest status, so if you've DNF'd since finishing it the DNF will show up first. I figured the latest status is the one you're most interested in as it's the last way you left the book.
Nadia oooh interesting. It looks like for a lot of these, I "DNFed" and finished on the same day. A common experience for me:
I know sometimes when I DNF, it smartly sets the DNF date to the date of the last journal entry instead of the date I'm updating it but I don't know why that didn't happen in all cases 🤔 Looking back at my reading list, it seems like most of the books where I did this workflow, it ends up with the finish date and the DNF date as the same day, so it shows the DNF first.
Nadia I think that does make sense as a strategy to show the most recent one in the results, but, for the case where I'm reading and finishing multiple editions, I don't want the edition to show up as unrated in my stats, but I also don't want to have to copy my entire rating from one edition to the other. I know some folks like to be able to rate different editions differently, but I really wish that if I have one edition with a detailed rating and one with just a star and nothing else, that the former is the one that I see when I search for the book. An improvement even would be to reorder the list of editions to put every one that you interacted with on top, so you don't have to scroll down the list searching for the edition you're actually looking for.
Nadia Back with an update on this, it doesn't seem like this is always working as expected. This book shows up in search with the DNF edition first even though the Finished edition is a later date.
jaina8851 Was the DNF edition marked/edited after the read edition?
Nadia Not as far as I can tell, or from what I recall. My memory (could be wrong, this was well over a year ago 😄) was that I DNFed the audiobook and wrote up the reason why before I even started the ebook. I suppose it's possible that I marked it DNF months prior and then wrote up the explanation later, I couldn't see a visible date on the explanation itself.
I'm going to be doing a lot of intentional cross-format rereading this year (e.g. I first read the Broken Earth trilogy as an ebook and now I'm going to read it as an audio). I'm already trying to figure out how to basically game the system--if I like the review I wrote the first time I read it and don't feel like I have anything to add, should I copy the entire thing whole cloth into the other edition, so it shows up when I search for that book in the future? Feels like that would clog up the community reviews, if everyone did that, and is a lot of hassle. I guess maybe I could go through all of the books in my Read list that are in this state and just make a tiny edit to the edition that I want to show up in search results? 😕
jaina8851 I don't have the bandwidth to look into this now but how it should work is to be the last updated version, i.e. the last edition/read status you "touched"/edited, regardless of date. Will review this at some point this year and make sure it works perfectly across all cases. Even on the editions page, the editions you've interacted with should float to the top!