04-11-2008, 10:19 PM | #46 |
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We should try to keep it simple. Remember how it will appear later. Example:
[SF&F] Pozzuoli, H G: The War of the Wenuses, v.1, 10 April 2008. rather than [Science Fiction & Fantasy] Pozzuoli, H G: The War of the Wenuses, v.1, 10 April 2008. |
04-12-2008, 01:09 AM | #47 |
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And where does the Bible go?
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04-12-2008, 02:13 AM | #48 |
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I know what category I would put the Bible in and I also know that my choice would be considered wrong by others. I remember a while back some a poster mentioned his new ebook website that had placed Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" under "science fiction".
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21838 Some people were very upset by this and stated that they would never purchase a book from the site based on the classification of the book. The poster apologized for his classification and was still harassed. Any attempt to classify the Bible will only bring up more confrontation on this site. |
04-12-2008, 07:46 AM | #49 |
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It could go in a section called Religion (or Spiritual). No need to start an unnecessary argument over something that easy.
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04-12-2008, 07:51 AM | #50 |
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Let's summarize what we got so far.
* Mystery * Romance * SF&F * Literature * Short Fiction * Biography * History * Non-Fiction * Reference The Bible could be considered a reference, right? Let's try to keep the thread prefixes general to allow for a broader spectrum of books. Further sub-categorization can be done via Tags. |
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I was a bit intrigued by the choice of "Literature" as a "Genre". So I asked my search engine "What is Literature"? The following is what I found.
http://home.mesastate.edu/~blaga/the...teraturex.html Quote:
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Hahaha! Thanks for the reference Maybe we're a bit too focus on how Amazon categorizes books.
How about adding Fiction as a catch-all genre instead of Literature? |
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04-12-2008, 10:28 AM | #54 |
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I'd recommend calling it Fiction & Literature or else just Fiction. I'd also recommend adding a section called Religion or perhaps Spiritual or Spiritual & Philosophy. That is and will be a popular category here. The things that would go in there (the Bible, Bhagavadgita, Spinoza, Zen stuff) don't quite feel like Reference or Non-fiction works to me. I would argue for a Science section (there are tons of notable old works) but I don't think it will ever be big enough here as long as these will almost all need to be PDFs.
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And where would we place RWood's Harvard Classics series? Some of the items are fiction; others not. Perhaps it should have a category of its own?
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04-12-2008, 12:10 PM | #56 |
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maybe there could be a category called Classics ? of course, then we get into the diatribe of what constitutes a "classic" which could easily get as heated as the question of where to put the bible... I would put things like the Harvard Classics series there (that one is easy ! it even says it in the name ) and Jane Austen and such, but what about, say, Boris Vian ? fiction or classics ? I think unconsciously a Classic to me is something which is not only worthwhile but also quite old. disclaimer : this is purely subjective and i make no claim as to its scientific value.
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04-12-2008, 12:11 PM | #57 |
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[QUOTE]And where would we place RWood's Harvard Classics series? Some of the items are fiction; others not. Perhaps it should have a category of its own?QUOTE]
It is all Great Literature, whether of Science, History, Biography or etc. |
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Classics sounds good to me.
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04-12-2008, 08:36 PM | #59 |
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i beleive someone mentioned having a category for foreign language books, i definitely would like to encourage more non-english works (more french ebooks please !) but i think a better idea would be to create tags for the languages but keep all languages together in the appropriate categories. for 2 reasons :
1. if we make a category called "french" and all the french books are in there, that means fiction will be mixed with horror will be mixed with romance and it will be chaos (much like the current single french thread which is for talking about everything, as long as it is in french). unless we create a whole new series of categories, identical to the original ones, but for each language. this seems excessive to me. 2. if the books are categorized all together but *tagged* with languages, i can search for all books in french for example, or i can browse all the mysteries and discover that not only do we have Arsène Lupin in english, but we also have those books in the original french ! yay ! (we don't yet actually, as far as i know, but i plan to remedy that...). other than that, several suggestions have been made since i last posted and they all seem good to me. looking at wallcraft's list, it seems to me we could use the mobi subjects (the second line for each category) as tags. the only thing i disagree with is putting graphic novels with juvenile fiction. i don't know whether we could have enough of them to merit their own category, but i do think they're not automatically for children, and it's not a good idea to put them there. |
04-13-2008, 04:46 PM | #60 |
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OK, it still includes a few more than I'd hoped for, but this is what we got so far:
Biography Classic Fiction Graphic History Mystery Nonfiction Philosophy Poetry Reference Romance SF&F Short Fiction Spiritual Young Adult So, in total, 14 categories. Anything missing or redundant? Last suggestions? Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 04-13-2008 at 05:21 PM. Reason: Removed Classic, added Poetry |
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