Adding specific editions to publisher’s series – consequent confusion

When adding a book (Cicero ‘De amicitia’ in Icelandic translation, https://www.librarything.com/work/1412572/details/18283378 ) to a publisher’s series (Lærdómsrit bókmenntafélagsins, https://www.librarything.com/nseries/365996/L%C3%A6rd%C3%B3msrit-B%C3%B3kmenntaf... ) the resultant entry in the series is “On friendship in translation”, presumably a work title, but this is totally misleading. I want to add a particular instance of a work (i.e. one specific Icelandic translation) to the (specifically Icelandic) series, and not some generic work title.

Sadly confused :-( What am I not understanding here / how can I fix this ?

Yes, it is the work title, and No, you can't change that. Specific editions are not added to series, works are.

If you are using a language site such as https://is.librarything.com/, you could put in a canonical title on the work for that site, and you would probably see that title in the publishers series and everywhere else that the work title is shown on that site.

Thanks for the response; so the system is functioning as intended.
But in the case of publisher’s series: does this functionality make sense ?
Penguin Classics series should have specific editions as entries, not generic editions (works). IMHO
Ditto Everyman’s Library, ditto Faber paper covered editions, ditto Bibliothek Suhrkamp, ditto Lærdómsrit Bókmenntafélagsins etc.

>3 DouglasAtEik: LibraryThing does not have editions layer - what we have in the Editions page is grouped single books based on matching ISBN/title/author - but these exist as groups only there. So the choices when applying something are between the whole work or an individual book. And splitting the editions into separate works defeats the purpose of the works - so pulling these separately makes no sense.

Publisher series had always been in that gray space where they do not make sense on a work level but we do not have any other space for them. So they exist with the understanding of everyone using them that they will show up even if their own copy is a different edition... Until (and if) we ever get editions layer, this is the best we can do.

>3 DouglasAtEik: But there is no mechanism to do this.

>4 AnnieMod: Again, thanks for the response.
I think that I’m beginning to understand why things are the way they are.
But one can always dream of a perfect system, non ?

>6 DouglasAtEik: Sure. But as things stand, there is nothing that can be fixed - which is what you asked at the start. So we had been trying to help with the other part of the question - helping you understand why things work the way they do - sometimes design decisions become an obstacle to some implementations. :)

We have an RSI (Recommend Site Improvements) section: https://www.librarything.com/ngroups/559/Recommend-Site-Improvements - feel free to post there as well. Spoiler alert though - this had been asked for probably more times than any other feature :) One more won't harm but... :)