..yes, I know it sounds terribly exciting. Essentially they'll be lists that I update as I come across relevant books. I've already planned and created three indexes: World War 2, The City, and American History. The index will have subcategories: WW2, for instance, will have War in Asia and War in Africa sections. More will follow, including one for The Great War. When I read a book, not only will I add it to the list, as I do my "What I've Read This Year" list, but I will link to the relevant list so that people whose interest is engaged can click through, and see related books without having to wade through page after page using the labels. The trick will be choosing topics that I read a lot of, and consistently, but which are not so broad that they'd rival the Talmud in length. There will never be a General History index, because that would be nuts.
If you actually read all that, bless you. Isn't organizing things fun? Look for the first couple this coming week.
Indexes are a great idea. I keep a general book index on my blog. I have considered setting up indexes for particular areas of interest also.
ReplyDeleteI tend to like lists.
Lists are one of the reasons I preferred Goodreads to Shelfari and LibraryThing -- they're fiction-heavy, though. For instance: the leading WW2 nonfiction list only has 190 contributors.
DeleteThis sounds like a great idea. I maintain a list of topics on my blog that is useful from time to time.
ReplyDeleteCan you direct me to that list? I've been poking about here and there with no result. The American history list proved....lengthy, even omitting most of the 20th century.
DeleteThank you! I've made some banners to go with them. Crude, but servicable.
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