How to store two books w same author and title in different languages?

[maddz]

Originally Posted by DNSB

OTOH, I have never failed to be surprised by is the number of books with the same title no matter how odd the title might seem to me. One example for me was a recent book for my spouse (Christine Pope's Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun) where I found we already have 2 other books with the same title/different author in our calibre library and there are at least 7 other books with the same title out there.

It's because book titles (and series names) aren't covered by copyright. Let's face it, with the number of books published each year in English, it probably won't be possible to have unique titles.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by maddz

It's because book titles (and series names) aren't covered by copyright. Let's face it, with the number of books published each year in English, it probably won't be possible to have unique titles.

We would run out of words if someone could copyright a dictionary word or number. Why do you thing AMD and Intel named (made up words) their CPU. 80586 is not copyrightable and there were lots of products that took advantage.

I also notice that smarter authors appear to have checked their genre for other authors with a similar name and 'adjusted' theirs to be different (use an initial or nickname).
The other day I sorted by Title: (I forgot to mark a book read before removing from my reader and was trying to spot its name)
Like @DNSB, I was surprised on how many books had the same exact title words.
Take a popular theme in SF/F and those name usage rise exponentially