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Old 01-05-2011, 07:40 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
If you group books by period (i.e., 19th Century), you can usually easily deal with this issue. Genre might work for more modern works, although it's more problematic for older titles which usually don't fall neatly within our genre conventions.
I can definitely see the logic in that approach, but apparently I'm not happy unless I can do "search math":

18th Century + Fiction + Gothic + Enlightenment = Wieland: The Transformation

That's why I love Calibre - it lets me overcomplicate things to a satisfying degree.

Fortunately, I haven't yet come across too many older works that don't fit into my genre/tagging system. That said, I realize most people don't (and wouldn't want to) use as many tags as I do. I just don't think I could find anything any other way. I even considered using the Dewey Decimal System for my non-fiction titles. (The LOC classifications make me twitch.)
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