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Engelbrecht
Posted 2012-07-18 7:34 AM (#3779 - in reply to #3758)
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I'm all for it.  For one thing, there are already a few in the database, thus setting a precedent.  But more importantly, it seems to me that it would serve the goals of the site.  WWE is a resource for readers, helping them to find and learn about great genre books to read.  Lists, "Stats at a Glance" (icons), reviews, blog links, all exist to help readers identify and learn about prospective reads of interest.  Additionally, and as a further aid to readers, the Resources area of the site includes a great amount of "ancillary" information on such things as conventions, podcasts, clubs, etc.  Why not give readers yet another way to educate themselves?

In fact, I'll go further and suggest that a special list or resource section be set up that is dedicated to nonfiction books.  To the best of my knowledge, there isn't much out there that covers this sort of thing.  It could be quite a unique draw for WWE.

Like DrNefario and valashain, I'd limit nonfiction content to such things as history, memoirs, biographies, criticism, etc.

A couple of thoughts on the existing nonfiction books in the database: Broderick & Di Filippo's Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 is in the database and is the basis for one of WWE's lists, however, Pringle's Science Fiction: The Hundred Best Novels and Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels are the basis for two other of WWE's lists but are not in the database, something that should probably be rectified.

Aldiss' Billion Year Spree (1973), 339 pages is in the database, but this book was expanded and essentially replaced by his superior Trillion Year Spree (1986), 511 pages, which is not in the database, again, something that should probably be rectified.

 


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