[Daithi]

I hear what you are saying about giving Shakespeare and Dickens their own categories, and I can't say that I am real happy about it either. When I created my own lists I had initially put my Shakespeare entries in the classics category (pre-1800 category) and Dickens in the 19th Century Lit category. Here was the problem -- half of my classics category was Shakespeare and a third of my 19th Century Lit category was Dickens. So I had a choice of seperating them out into their own categories or allowing them to completely dominate a category. I thought seperating them out was the lesser of two evils, but I'd like to hear your opinions.

I have also played with different categories. At one point I had a 'Dickens & Austen,' a 'Hemingway & Steinbeck,' and a 'Faulkner, Joyce, & Woolf' category. However, I ended up putting these authors back into the regular categories because I could live with an author taking up 4 or 5 slots in a category (ok, Austen took up 6). But in the case of Dickens and Shakespeare they were taking up a dozen or couple dozen slots each (even after eliminating some of their not so popular works). So that's why I put these two authors in their own categories.