On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:04:55 -0400, "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote: |----- Original Message ----- |>From Kevin Handy <kth@srv.net> |Date Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:22:58 -0600 |To Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> |Subject Re: [gutvol-d] Re: Search by subject for ebooks? | |> Don't forget that some books will fit under multiple categories. |> Think along the lines of "The Klingon Singing Cook Book." I |> don't know if such a thing exists, but you get the idea. | |Which any decent library already takes into account when cataloguing, |which is why it would be easiest to catalogue under any and all pre- |existing catalogue headings as given in major national library |catalogues like LOC, AMICUS, British libraries, etc., etc., etc., |unless, of course, there is a patently wrong catalogue entry. (That |happens.) Which happens quite often in the real world. My local library catalogues Jean Auel's, Earth's Children books http://www.geocities.com/auelpage/auel.html as Science Fiction :-( IMO Would be better Historical Fiction, or Historical Fantasy, or Fantasy -- Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk>