Number box next to title?

Hi, What is the little box to the right of the title in the Edit book section?

Which character to start sorting from when you order your catalog alphabetically.

It allows the system to skip an article for example - so “The Book” gets sorted with the Bs and not with the Ts (5 will skip 4 characters; if the value is empty, it will sort with the Ts). It mostly works automatically for English - it gets set when you add the book (unless you edit a title after you add the book - the. You may need to adjust it) but for other languages where the articles are before a word, it is usually needed (die is an article in German (so you want to skip it) but the system cannot just skip all “die” because it is a normal word in English).

>2 AnnieMod: Ah! Thank you, I will have to double check some books as I have in fact edited some titles.

When I select "sort from (start)" (no article at the beginning of the title), I've noticed that it never "sticks", if I close the book edit page and then open it again, the field is always empty.

Field empty = sort from start? (So there's no need for me to manually select it every time?)

Thanks

>4 Moloch: Yes. Empty, 0 (when this could be set) and (start) do the same thing - start with the first character.

>4 Moloch: Yes, if nothing is chosen it sorts from start too, no need to select unless you need to change from some number assigned automatically

Thanks