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Alexander Turcic · 04-13-2008, 05:42 PM

Ahhh, it's really not easy, is it?

I picked Short Fiction because it's a well known genre. You're right, Poetry is important and has been added to the list.

Now, when you refer to essays, novellas, plays, it seems to me like a different approach of categorizing e-books. One is to categorize genres according to content; the other is to categorize according to type or style of writing. The difficulty here is that we're trying to mix these two which doesn't seem to work very well.

04-13-2008, 05:42 PM	#64
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Ahhh, it's really not easy, is it? I picked Short Fiction because it's a well known genre. You're right, Poetry is important and has been added to the list. Now, when you refer to essays, novellas, plays, it seems to me like a different approach of categorizing e-books. One is to categorize genres according to content; the other is to categorize according to type or style of writing. The difficulty here is that we're trying to mix these two which doesn't seem to work very well.