Separating genres from subjects/topics

ownedbycats · 04-06-2023, 07:47 PM

Do other people separate genres/book-types (e.g. 'science fiction', 'biographies & memoirs', 'cozy mysteries') from subjects/topics (e.g. 'cats', 'health & wellness', 'atlantic canada'), or keep them mixed together?

Sirtel · 04-06-2023, 07:52 PM

I only do genres, not topics. That's because 99% of my ebooks are fiction. No point in separating a handful of nonfiction ebooks into topics. If I had more nonfiction, I'd create topics as subcategories of my nonfiction genre.

theducks · 04-06-2023, 08:36 PM

Nope:

Tags are how I select.
But I really thin the supplied tags.
'fiction' is only part of Science Fiction (my library is 95% fiction)
I use hierarchical tagging:
Science Fiction.Military
Mystery.Cozy

Almost no tags with &. Those get corrected to the actual or broken into 2 tags

I feel no need to break Fantasy down by critter
Same goes for Mystery Sleuths by gender.

Bookstooge · 04-07-2023, 06:08 PM

I use tags for everything. So genres are just another tag to me.

ownedbycats · 04-22-2023, 06:47 AM

Here's what I did:

The genres are second-level tags under Fiction, e.g.
Fiction.Science Fiction
Fiction.Mystery

But the topics and subjects go under Fiction.Topics.Whatever, e.g.
Fiction.Topics.World War II.Holocaust
Fiction.Topics.Survival

It works well for the fiction at least.

04-06-2023, 07:47 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,412 Karma: 80995913 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Separating genres from subjects/topics Do other people separate genres/book-types (e.g. 'science fiction', 'biographies & memoirs', 'cozy mysteries') from subjects/topics (e.g. 'cats', 'health & wellness', 'atlantic canada'), or keep them mixed together?

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04-06-2023, 07:52 PM	#2
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 14,254 Karma: 244405943 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	I only do genres, not topics. That's because 99% of my ebooks are fiction. No point in separating a handful of nonfiction ebooks into topics. If I had more nonfiction, I'd create topics as subcategories of my nonfiction genre.

04-06-2023, 08:36 PM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,370 Karma: 62500000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Nope: Tags are how I select. But I really thin the supplied tags. 'fiction' is only part of Science Fiction (my library is 95% fiction) I use hierarchical tagging: Science Fiction.Military Mystery.Cozy Almost no tags with &. Those get corrected to the actual or broken into 2 tags I feel no need to break Fantasy down by critter Same goes for Mystery Sleuths by gender.

04-07-2023, 06:08 PM	#4
Bookstooge Member Retired Posts: 805 Karma: 2091358 Join Date: May 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis 1st Gen, PB Era	I use tags for everything. So genres are just another tag to me.

04-22-2023, 06:47 AM	#5
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 11,412 Karma: 80995913 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	Here's what I did: The genres are second-level tags under Fiction, e.g. Fiction.Science Fiction Fiction.Mystery But the topics and subjects go under Fiction.Topics.Whatever, e.g. Fiction.Topics.World War II.Holocaust Fiction.Topics.Survival It works well for the fiction at least.

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