The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

One possibility is that "Women's Fiction" is a general umbrella genre to indicate fiction that is specifically aimed towards a female audience regardless of the specific genre. Like with most genres* it is likely that it can include a wide range of different types of books.

To use movies as an example, "Gone With The Wind" might be considered "Women's Fiction" while "First Blood" (the first Rambo movie) could be considered "Men's Fiction."

*I checked on Wikipedia to find out how many genres there were and how they are defined so I could update my digital music library. There were literally hundreds of them with many genres very specific (such as Wonky Pop, Dream Pop, Death Metal, Drone Music, Lounge Music, Wizard Rock, and Psychobilly). It was so confusing I just went with general genres (such as Country, Pop, Jazz) and took my best guess.

Some of those so-called music genres are not real. That's just someone's made up genre. Wonky Pop, Dream Pop, Done Music, Wizard Rock, Phychobilly are all made up nonsense.

When you go to the books entry on Amazon. it comes up as a medical romance book. To me, the term Women's Fiction is demeaning. I've never seen Men's Fiction and if there was such a thing, romance would not be.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sadly many of the same devices that do not support pseudo classes and elements do not support media queries. Many of the ePub renderers I have looked at support ePub2 which did not have media query support. The easy to tell if the renderer has any ePub3 compatibiliy is if they don't display the ToC when only the ePub2 navigation document is present without the NCX file.

Yeah, I know that ePub3 has been around since Oct. 2011 but many developers have not yet caught up with that news.

We have a big player that has a program that's ePub2. The version of RMSDK Kobo is using old and possibly equivalent to some version ADE 3.

Yes I know that KePub is ePub3 friendly. But many people don't know all of this ePub2 vs ePub3. They just put the book on the Kobo and want to read it. They don't use calibre to convert to KePub. ePub3 eBooks should be as backwards compatible with ePub2 as possible.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Some of those so-called music genres are not real. That's just someone's made up genre. Wonky Pop, Dream Pop, Done Music, Wizard Rock, Phychobilly are all made up nonsense.

"made up nonsense"... well yes, because SOMEBODY had to coin the term in the first place. But more people use it and it's accepted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonky_pop

The BBC reported that the term "wonky pop" was both coined by and is owned by Mika's manager,[2] while The Independent reported the term was coined by Peter Robinson, founder of the blog Popjustice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_pop

The term "dreampop" was coined in the late 1980s by Alex Ayuli of A.R. Kane to describe his band's eclectic sound, which blended effects-laden guitar with dub production and drum machine backing, among other elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal

The most popular theory of the subgenre's christening is Possessed's 1984 demo, Death Metal; the song from the eponymous demo would also be featured on the band's 1985 debut album, Seven Churches.[75] Possessed vocalist/bassist Jeff Becerra said he coined the term in early 1983 for a high school English class assignment.[76] Another possible origin was a magazine called Death Metal, started by Thomas Fischer and Martin Ain of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. The name was later given to the 1984 compilation Death Metal released by Noise Records.[75] The term might also have originated from other recordings, such as the demo released by Death in 1984, called Death by Metal.[77]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychobilly

In the mid- to late 1970s, as punk rock became popular, several rockabilly and garage rock bands appeared who would influence the development of psychobilly.[4] The term "psychobilly" was first used in the lyrics to the country song "One Piece at a Time", written by Wayne Kemp for Johnny Cash, which was a Top 10 hit in the United States in 1976. The lyrics describe the construction of a "psychobilly Cadillac using stolen auto parts."[8]

The Cramps, who formed in Sacramento, California, in 1972 and relocated to New York in 1975 where they became part of the city's thriving punk movement, appropriated the term from the Cash song and described their music as "psychobilly" and "rockabilly voodoo" on flyers advertising their concerts.

[Quoth]

Ten Four, good buddy. I think we have a convoy.

Was that the craziest pop hit to be made into a Movie?

Even Norwegian Death Metal is a thing, though I have never knowingly listened to it.

I'm broader than the woman in the Blues Brothers:
"Ah, what kind of music do you usually have here?"
Bar Woman: "We have both kinds, Country and Western."

[DrNefario]

Years ago, I remember seeing some kind of interactive flash thing that had a tree of subgenres of what is now known as EDM - House, Acid House, Rave, Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, Jungle, etc - with examples and definitions. It was quite eye-opening given that I hadn't heard of about half of them.

If any kind of subgenre classification is helpful to someone then what's the problem?

That said, I do think there is a bit of ghettoisation involved with Women's Fiction (and I don't think it's the same as Chick Lit, although it might be a superset), like we can park this stuff over here and safely ignore it. The problem is with the name rather than the content.

I have certainly seen things (jokingly) described as Dad-Lit: Sharpe, Reacher, that kind of thing. It's not (yet) a recognised genre anywhere, I don't think.

[JSWolf]

the problem with a lot of this "so-called" genres is that when you do a metadata download, you get a lot of garbage for genre when all you want is the correct simple genre.

[John F]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

the problem with a lot of this "so-called" genres is that when you do a metadata download, you get a lot of garbage for genre when all you want is the correct simple genre.

For some subset of you.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

the problem with a lot of this "so-called" genres is that when you do a metadata download, you get a lot of garbage for genre when all you want is the correct simple genre.

tag mapper is useful for this

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

tag mapper is useful for this

map this silly tag into a real tag.

[JSWolf]

The book Mickey7 is the yet another book made into a movie to be replacing the good cover with a crappy movie cover.

[ownedbycats]

I'm glad Kobo Utilities lets me replace cover on device.

How about those fake stickers saying "now a netflix series"? Annoying enough on digital, but on physical I accidentally tore covers trying to get it off.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I'm glad Kobo Utilities lets me replace cover on device.

How about those fake stickers saying "now a netflix series"? Annoying enough on digital, but on physical I accidentally tore covers trying to get it off.

When I see those badges, I try to find the cover without if I can get one with a high enough resolution. It's not always successful.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

When I see those badges, I try to find the cover without if I can get one with a high enough resolution. It's not always successful.

Inpaint/content-aware fill works (with varying results), but I'm not sure if theres any tools for it that are free. I have a friend with photoshop.

[ownedbycats]

Aha, for paint.net: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/11...ll-2024-11-15/

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Aha, for paint.net: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/11...ll-2024-11-15/

Thanks. I've downloaded the program and the plugin. I'll give it a go when I have a need for it.