Yes. I do perceive a need for something like this. In my searching for author information for the online catalog, I've run across plenty of sites which have their own list of selected titles from PG arranged, or tagged, or what-have-you, according to the interest of whoever put together the list. So, is it better to say, "let everybody make their own way of organizing what is of interest to them", or do we want to make some kind of categorizing availible on gutenberg.org? Not long ago, on this mailing list I mentioned different ways this might be approached, and what my preferred approach would be. Unfortunately, it turns out that, for technical issues, using mediawiki in the way I was imagining is not possible. Marcello has set up an example of the type of list that could be used here: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Detective_Fiction_%28Bookshelf%29 What do you think? Would you like to make more lists like this? A hand-edited list like this where you can specify the order and sub-grouping, and add editorial comments can certainly be useful in some cases. Andrew On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Jared Buck wrote:
Hey, would there be any way we could be able to create a system for searching by subject matter for books? I have a mind to create a CD of books about and by native american indians for a girl i really like and the search mechanism is just not robust enough, searching full text takes too much time either. Being able to enter a single term under subject should be able to bring up a whole list of books related to that subject matter. Like, searching for science fiction should bring up a list of books that ARE science fiction, not just books with the words "science fiction" in the title or in the text.
Jared
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