Thread: MobileRead 2016 Book Club CATEGORY Nominations
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Old 08-05-2015, 03:58 PM   #117
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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes View Post
I won't be supporting classics in the vote. Since inception in 2008, the bookclub has read 38 classic books in 82 months (46.3%). Even excluding the categories that were MR Classic and Classic the totals are 27 in 71 (38.0%).

38% of the time the bookclub has chosen a classic book when it didn't have to. The bookclub will continue to seek out classics due to cost and availability. I don't see that changing if we don't have a classics category. The bookclub members aren't going to suddenly forget that classic books exist if we don't have that category.
Point made, but many classic books don't fit into other genres or categories we have, even PCML. Something like a Drama category (not as in plays but as in book genre) could cover that gap but I'm now out of votes, and I like Classics anyway.
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