diff --git a/src/BloomExe/Book/Book.cs b/src/BloomExe/Book/Book.cs
index 75fd558bbeaf..50de4b7cea2e 100644
--- a/src/BloomExe/Book/Book.cs
+++ b/src/BloomExe/Book/Book.cs
@@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ public Book(
         /// </summary>
         public string PendingCreationSource { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Snapshot of the source book's title (in L1, usually empty) captured when the new book is created.
+        /// This lets us distinguish true user title edits from automatic recalculation.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string PendingCreationSourceTitle { get; set; }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// If there is a pending "Created" history event (set during book creation), record it now
         /// using the book's current title.
@@ -244,14 +250,27 @@ public void RecordPendingCreatedHistoryEvent(bool onlyIfTitleChanged = false)
         {
             if (PendingCreationSource == null)
                 return;
-            if (onlyIfTitleChanged && Storage.Dom.Title == PendingCreationSource)
-                return;
+            if (onlyIfTitleChanged)
+            {
+                // Compare L1 titles to detect if the user has actually changed the title.
+                // Extract the current book's L1 title using its BookData language.
+                var sourceTitle = PendingCreationSourceTitle ?? string.Empty;
+                var currentL1Title = string.Empty;
+                if (BookInfo != null && BookData != null)
+                {
+                    currentL1Title =
+                        BookInfo.GetTitleForLanguage(BookData.Language1Tag) ?? string.Empty;
+                }
+                if (sourceTitle == currentL1Title)
+                    return;
+            }
             BookHistory.AddEvent(
                 this,
                 BookHistoryEventType.Created,
                 $"Created a new book \"{Storage.Dom.Title}\" from a source book \"{PendingCreationSource}\""
             );
             PendingCreationSource = null;
+            PendingCreationSourceTitle = null;
         }
 
         public void UpdateBookInfoFromDisk()
diff --git a/src/BloomExe/Book/BookInfo.cs b/src/BloomExe/Book/BookInfo.cs
index 8bd252a7931d..bfdf2a47ddda 100644
--- a/src/BloomExe/Book/BookInfo.cs
+++ b/src/BloomExe/Book/BookInfo.cs
@@ -253,6 +253,33 @@ public virtual string AllTitles
             set { MetaData.AllTitles = value; }
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Extract the title for a specific language from AllTitles JSON.
+        /// Returns the title if found, otherwise returns an empty string.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string GetTitleForLanguage(string languageTag)
+        {
+            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(AllTitles) || string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(languageTag))
+                return string.Empty;
+
+            try
+            {
+                var jsonString = AllTitles.Replace("\r", "\\r").Replace("\n", "\\n");
+                dynamic titles = DynamicJson.Parse(jsonString);
+                var langs = (IEnumerable<string>)titles.GetDynamicMemberNames();
+                if (langs.Contains(languageTag))
+                {
+                    return ((string)titles[languageTag]).Trim();
+                }
+            }
+            catch
+            {
+                // If parsing fails, return empty
+            }
+
+            return string.Empty;
+        }
+
         public string Isbn
         {
             get { return MetaData.Isbn; }
diff --git a/src/BloomExe/CollectionTab/CollectionModel.cs b/src/BloomExe/CollectionTab/CollectionModel.cs
index 5d7d471aac88..dd673f4b8fd4 100644
--- a/src/BloomExe/CollectionTab/CollectionModel.cs
+++ b/src/BloomExe/CollectionTab/CollectionModel.cs
@@ -1032,19 +1032,16 @@ private void CreateFromSourceBook(Book.Book sourceBook)
                 if (newBook == null)
                     return; //This can happen if there is a configuration dialog and the user clicks Cancel
 
-                // We want it to have the name it's eventually going to BEFORE we add it to the collection.
-                // Otherwise, there are race conditions between the code that is selecting it (and as a side
-                // effect, bringing it up to date, which may rename it and its folder, if it already has a
-                // title in the relevant language) and the code that wants to display a thumbnail of the new
-                // item in the list.
-                // (We can't fix this by reordering things, because there will also be problems if we attempt
-                // to select an item before it is present in the collection to select.)
-                // We know this is a new book object, so there's no point in using EnsureUpToDate.
-                // When we later select it, that code uses EnsureUpToDate and will not do it again.
-                // Set before BringBookUpToDate so that title-change events fired during that call
-                // are suppressed (no spurious Renamed entries). The Created event will be recorded
-                // when the user enters a title (or various events if no title is entered earlier).
+                // We want to eventually make a book-created entry in history for this book,
+                // which includes information about the book we made it from. We want to wait
+                // to make that record until the new author gives it a name in L1. Possible
+                // sources for the original name may be lost in the course of bringing it up to
+                // date, so we capture the original title now. Also, we capture the initial
+                // L1 title, so we can reliably tell whether the user has actually provided one.
                 newBook.PendingCreationSource = Path.GetFileName(sourceBook.FolderPath);
+                var l1Lang = newBook?.BookData?.Language1Tag;
+                var sourceL1Title = sourceBook.BookInfo.GetTitleForLanguage(l1Lang);
+                newBook.PendingCreationSourceTitle = sourceL1Title;
                 newBook.BringBookUpToDate(new NullProgress(), false);
 
                 TheOneEditableCollection.AddBookInfo(newBook.BookInfo);