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haertig · 10-18-2017, 12:09 PM

Thanks for all the tips. I think I might make use of Genre-Author for some specific cases.

I'll have "Adventure", and I'll have "Fantasy", and "Thriller", etc.

Then I'll also have subcategories, but only for the authors that I have a lot of books for: e.g., "Adventure-Rollins", "Adventure-Cussler", "Adventure-Reilly", "Fantasy-Brooks", "Thriller-Gross", "Thriller-Crichton", etc. Books that fall into these high volume author subcategories would be left out of the main category (e.g., left out of generic "Adventure").

And I'd end up with smaller category/sub lists this way, so it would become more attractive to puts book into multiple categories - something that I tried to avoid before because I didn't want to bloat the number of books in a category more than it already was.

All the "Adventure..." categories/subcategories should sort next to each other in the category list, making tagging like this very workable.

I'll give it a shot. Y'all are great for bouncing ideas around, and making good suggestions. Thanks!

10-18-2017, 12:09 PM	#15
haertig Wizard Posts: 1,897 Karma: 31522252 Join Date: Sep 2017 Device: PW3, Fire HD8 Gen7, Moto G7, Sansa Clip v2, Ruizu X26	Thanks for all the tips. I think I might make use of Genre-Author for some specific cases. I'll have "Adventure", and I'll have "Fantasy", and "Thriller", etc. Then I'll also have subcategories, but only for the authors that I have a lot of books for: e.g., "Adventure-Rollins", "Adventure-Cussler", "Adventure-Reilly", "Fantasy-Brooks", "Thriller-Gross", "Thriller-Crichton", etc. Books that fall into these high volume author subcategories would be left out of the main category (e.g., left out of generic "Adventure"). And I'd end up with smaller category/sub lists this way, so it would become more attractive to puts book into multiple categories - something that I tried to avoid before because I didn't want to bloat the number of books in a category more than it already was. All the "Adventure..." categories/subcategories should sort next to each other in the category list, making tagging like this very workable. I'll give it a shot. Y'all are great for bouncing ideas around, and making good suggestions. Thanks!