04-13-2008, 04:56 PM | #61 |
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I do not like classics. How do you know something is a classic? Is Sherlock Holmes classics? If it was going to catch the series Harvard Classics why not have a series category?
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You are right. And it doesn't say much about the content of the book. So putting Sherlock Holmes, to take your example, into Mystery would be more explanatory.
Without a Classic genre, I'd recommend to add Poetry to the list. |
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or, perhaps we could change "short fiction" to "short works" (or "short subjects" or something...). then, it could include : plays (where do they go currently ?), poetry, essays, short stories, novellas... and possibly other things which i am forgetting. what do you think ? or is it bad to mix fiction and non-fiction ?
[EDIT : in any case i do think it's important to have a category to put poetry.] |
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Ahhh, it's really not easy, is it?
I picked Short Fiction because it's a well known genre. You're right, Poetry is important and has been added to the list. Now, when you refer to essays, novellas, plays, it seems to me like a different approach of categorizing e-books. One is to categorize genres according to content; the other is to categorize according to type or style of writing. The difficulty here is that we're trying to mix these two which doesn't seem to work very well. |
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Perhaps it was suggested earlier, but maybe it would be easiest to see how book vendors (Sony, Amazon, B&N, etc.) classify them.
Sony has some plays under Classics, some under Humanities, some under Language, some under Arts,..... Okay, this is not helpful. B&N has no categories at all, just a search engine. Amazon...okay I think that's too complicated. Sorry. I will go away now. |
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no, really not !!
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The beauty of tags is that they are free to choose and can be added by anyone.
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Ok... Adventure could work in addition. I will prepare those prefixes and should we come up with any difficulties later on (something missing, ambiguity, ...) we can still change'em.
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Actually, instead of "Adventure" we should use "Action". "Adventure" is too limiting, and should better be added as a tag.
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There seems to be a genre called action adventure. From the Don Pendleton wikipedia entry:
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