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Old 08-03-2013, 02:45 PM   #1
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Need help classifying history books

I just got a huge dvd of history-based ebooks and I am struggling with how to categorize them. Do you do it by category---like, Canada, America, British and so on? Or do you do it by century? By 'era'? What about historical fiction, do you put it in with the non-fiction, so that you can look at (for instance) everything about the Ancient Greeks all together? What about topical things---if I have several books about the Titanic, for instance, is that European History? 20th Century History? How can I sort everything so I can find the big groups (like the stuff about Ancient Greece) without getting bogged down in a thousand tiny sub-categories?

I welcome any suggestions. The dvd, which I am reviewing for Teleread, had almost 300 books on it. I want to read and enjoy them, but the nerd in me needs to sort everything into its proper spot first
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