[bksvol-discuss] Re: Categories
- From: Dasha Radford <dasha95@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 21:13:53 -0400
I'm going to pass this along to the wish list as well but there are two books I
would like to see in the collection. One is dark which rising It is the third
book in the Troy game Courtet by Sarah Douglas. The second One is in the same
quartet is the fourth one called Druids sword.
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Madeleine Linares <Madeleinel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Roger and Julia,
>
> Thanks for your suggestions. I'll pass them along. We most definitely agree
> that more categories are needed and we're trying to get that. Of course,
> since this involves engineering, it's never a speedy process. I'll let you
> all know more as I find out more.
>
> Best,
>
> Madeleine
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 12:59 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Categories
>
> Hi everyone.
> I haven't used tags very much, but I still like the idea of having
> different categories to start out with. I like to be able to browse through
> them, without needing to type a specific book and generate a list of tags.
> I guess I should go to openlibrary and see how they do things. Julia On
> 09/10/2012 3:52 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
>> Madeleine, I just read the summary of the phone conference and I noted
>> the last item about my having brought up the subject of categories. I
>> would appreciate it if you would pass on my suggestions that I will
>> make here. I have discussed this before, but it has been a long time
>> and I would like to discuss it again. The problem with the categories
>> is that most people think that there are not enough or that we need
>> subcategories. Personally, I am a big advocate of splitting the
>> science fiction and fantasy categories into both a science fiction
>> category and a fantasy category. However, if you do that then there
>> are even more subcategories that those categories could be split into
>> and I am sure that all the other categories could be split too.
>> Obviously, if all the splits that can be made are made then it could
>> become rather unwieldy. There is a solution though. Many web sites
>> have user created tags. You can find this at Amazon, Paperback Swap
>> and other sites. The site that I have in mind, though, as a model is
>> Open Library. At Open Library anyone who comes along can add a tag to
>> the catalog entry of any book. These tags can be a category or a
>> subcategory or a character name or the names of places mentioned in
>> the book or the time frame the book covers or virtually anything else.
>> Once those tags are added they are searchable. That is, when you are
>> in the catalog entry for any book you can click one of those tags and
>> you will be taken to a list of all books that have also been given
>> that tag. Many of those tags have been also generated by importing
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