Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Andrew Sly wrote:
If it helps, I've assembled a small list of PG books that would fall under the heading of science fiction. I haven't done anything with it yet, as I feel it's rather on the small side, and surely misses many of the examples which we have.
Another catagory that could be of interest to some is cook books, of which there are now quite a decent number in PG.
You could add a subject "Science Fiction" or "Cooking" entry to all those books.
Is there a simple process for doing this? For historical novels, there's a book in PG, "A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales" (#1359) which lists hundreds of such, also listing their time and place settings: an ever-increasing number of the titles are in PG, so it would make an interesting project for someone with write access to the catalog data to go through the listing and add this classification to those titles. At present, there are only six titles in the catalog categorised as historical fiction. Distributed Proofreaders projects are classified under various headings (history, cooking, children's etc. ) when they're first started: it may be worth working out with DP a way of passing that data on to the catalog when the work is submitted. That only covers DP books, and probably doesn't match proper library classifications, but it should help in giving some information to the prospective reader.