Force the right cover in series / publisher's series

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Force the right cover in series / publisher's series

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1abbottthomas
Aug 17, 2015, 6:38 pm

I would like to be able to force the correct cover for books in a series rather than having the most popular cover for the work.

2jjwilson61
Aug 17, 2015, 6:54 pm

But what if you like one set of covers and someone else likes another?

3MarthaJeanne
Aug 17, 2015, 7:02 pm

Publishers series I can see it, but all copies should belong to regular series, so there the most popular would be the right one.

4abbottthomas
Edited: Aug 18, 2015, 4:39 am

>2 jjwilson61: >3 MarthaJeanne: Publisher's series are the chief problem because the most popular cover may be from a different publisher but I still hanker after order and symmetry in other series (such as this: https://www.librarything.com/series/Strangers+and+Brothers ) even though I know my choice would not be everybody's.

5gilroy
Aug 18, 2015, 6:56 am

I think this would be something that would require a finer differentiation on the books (Namely an edition layer that we don't have) in order to truly get it to work.

6Cynfelyn
Aug 18, 2015, 5:23 pm

>5 gilroy: Another thread asking for this improvement last year, at http://www.librarything.com/topic/167010, thought that a little "change cover for this series" link by each title, would do the trick.

7gilroy
Aug 19, 2015, 6:50 am

I don't think it would work. I think it would require greater background coding. But perhaps with the new way that they are working covers now, I might be wrong.