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Originally Posted by tweebee
Unfortunately for me that my whole library is pretty much 99% non-fiction books and mostly math, tech, and travel books which have many editions. I respectfully disagree with you Kovid, about the per edition published dates not being useful. The published date of each edition is also what makes each edition unique. If I own a 1st edition and 5th edition of a particular book. It doesn't look right to have them both shown with the same original published date when they are 20 years apart.
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I appreciate that they aren't useful for you, but, as Kovid says, the most common use for Calibre is for fiction books, and for those, the original publication date is really all that most people are interested in. If I buy a copy of, let's say, "Dune", all I really care about is when it was first published (1965), not when the particular edition that I bought happened to be published.
It would be nice to have the option of selecting the original, or edition-specific publication dates, but I think that the current behaviour of Calibre is that one which provides the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people.