Originally Posted by ficbot
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  |