That is exactly the problem. One can come up with a variety of categories and if we get enough categories to satisfy everyone then it would be entirely unwieldy. That is why I am going to offer a suggestion that I have offered before even though I don't feel like it has much chance of being acted on. There is a feature on a lot of sites called tags. I have found it at Amazon, Paperback Swap,Open Library and others. A user can label any catalog entry with a tag that may range from a category or subcategory to a note like "stored in my basement." When looking at a catalog entry the most popular tags would appear at the top and less popular tags might be hidden so that it would be necessary to click a tab labeled more to see them. If you click the tag itself you will see a list of all catalog entries that have received that tag and if you don't see the tag you are looking for then you could do a search for it and if anyone has ever tagged one or more entries with it then those would come up. If I sat here and tried to think of useful categories I could probably come up with hundreds. They might be really useful, but the category structure simply would not handle them and it would be a nightmare to browse through them. Tags would fulfill the function though. If Scott is reading this then I would like to suggest floating the idea to whomever handles things like that.
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Hi, Wanda, it sounds okay to me. Also, I'm of the opinion that diet books should have their own category to distinguish them from cookbooks which are primarily concerned with recipes. I suppose one can distinguish food fiction from the food and wine category (I hope so anyway.) There are some of us who think science fiction should be in a category by itself and that there should be a fantasy category so that sf readers can be assured they're getting science fiction and the fantasy lovers don't have to weed through the science fiction category to get what they like. Come to that, Wanda, you can have politics and government or public policy. I suppose you can have a category based on polemics which can be termed political argument or opinion. Heavens! One can come up with a variety of categories. Regards, Kim Friedman. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wanda Cochran Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 7:11 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Got the credit and a suggestion Hello. I got an email last night saying the book was approved and that I received the credit. Thank you for your responses. I'm happy to hear that this is not normal and this falls into the category of stuff happens. I wanted to make a suggestion that a new category of books be added to the category of books, called political or government. I just proofed the book "Searching for God knows what," and it was in the nonfiction and religious category. I read the book and there is discussion of politics and since this book is for people who are seeking a religious connection, I felt that there should be an awareness to a potential reader that public policy is being addressed in the book. It would irritate me to choose a book in the religious category and then get halfway through the book to find the author is using the book to inject their political point of view,right leaning or left leaning, I think I should know that politics is involved, especially if I downloaded a book for spiritual guidance. I like to keep my church and state separated. I know politics is a thorny issue, but perhaps any book that directly discusses public policy could fall into the politics category as an additional marker to the reader. What do you think? Wanda.
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