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Originally Posted by Tarana
For adventure, I categorize Sea, Military, Spy, Survival, Epic, Pulp, European, Asian
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Ah interesting, I have an Adventure category and I also overlap some of your sub-categories, but for me they are top level. ie:
Adventure
Military
Spy and thriller
Pulp and noir
Crime (hard to distinguish from the pulp and noir sometimes so I am thinking of collapsing these two)
...all at the same level.
I think I tend to consider adventure to be about exploration and seeing new lands and things of that nature. So I have authors like ERB, H Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, Kipling, Sabatini, Jack London and so on filed in Adventure.
For the problem of categories with too many titles (for me that would be SF&F) I do the alphabetical split inside instead of sub-categories.
So inside SF&F I have
ABC
...
STU
Various or anonymous
VWXYZ
Then inside the letter categories, I do author folders for any author that I have more than about five books from.
(whoah, the Mac Finder says I have 7909 items in my SF&F read folder)
I don't like to split the categories too finely because I think that only worked for books from about the turn of last century to the beginning of this one. I find for older works (I guess before publishing and bookstores really became huge?) they can cross many of what we consider to be genres today. Then for newer works, there was an explosion of micro-niches this century and now writers are crossing them more and more so it is hard to classify many of the books.
So every time I move a book to my "read" folder and choose a category for it, I also add metadata giving the number of epub pages, and some tags (like YA, non-fiction, anthology, steam punk, paranormal, etc) which helps when searching too. I used to append these to the end of the file names (since that tends to work better cross platform) but I ended up deciding this made the file names too messy.