Fill In the Catalogue
Below you see two lists of subject categories for a bookstore and online bookseller. One is from an existing store's site (I am not connected with this place) and the other is a draft I came up with last night. As it reads in draft stage, my list thing is too complex.
Please help make the list useful to you and for any online search for books and documents.
There are two challenges I offer readers: 1) you can help refine these categories and 2) you can start filling in each category with suggested titles that can be purchase on the Internet.
The two challenges are related. A category for which no book is offered for sale is useless and should be dropped. Or, if the list of suggested books under a category grows so long that it becomes just a potpourri or grab-bag sans coherence. A category should be split if "priceless titles" run endlessly on and on.
Remember: basically everything is a sub-category of everything else. By using links and by putting in a 'See Also' as a cross-reference to related categories, we can avoid breaking this bookstore / library into an endlessly long series of subdivisions.
This is not an E-Commerce site. Please do not submit offers to sell here on Cheap Priceless Editions. You can enter an address (a domain name or URL) if a book you recommend is for sale on the web, however, as long as you describe the content and its importance.
Do Please give one to four short paragraphs describing your book choice. Tell why it can be termed a Priceless Edition. Give a range of purchase prices or links for consulting the content online.
As this site evolves, we will take up still greater challenges. One direction you might enjoy is to build a virtual library that holds titles ranging over a maximum of subject categories. Virtual could refer to Internet access to titles and could include material (visual and digitized sources) that are free to users. Where there is a membership fee charged, please include clear indications of how much users fees on a site amount to as well as the URL for downloading the document(s).
Another challenge we may take up in the future is to build 1) the least expensive hand-holdable library that covers the most categories and 2) the most expensive library for collectors of rare or signed editions. But at the core and until we all become connoisseurs (or rare book dealers), the biggest challenge for we the participants here on Cheap Priceless Editions is to build (or link to) the best selection of books, journals, broadsheets, periodicals and non-print images and materials we can find.
The owner of this blog, Cy Butterfield, reserves the right to drop categories and entries from the list without giving notice. Such deletions and 'erasures' are open for you to comment on, of course, and I will try to participate in any discussion about not including everything sent in. Just be warned: I will not suffer spam or tolerate political, racial or religious bigotry. We will not include every fanatical rag nor be a forum for any and every defender or assailant of causes or people.
The categorical outlines:
African American Agriculture Animals & Birds Antarctica & Arctic Anthropology Antiquarian & Rare Antiques & Collectables Archaeology Architecture Art & Design Aviation Biography & Autobiography Books on Books Business & Finance Chess & Games Children's Classics (Latin & Greek) Comics & Cartoons Countries & Travel Craft, Needlework, Handicrafts Crime Diaries & Journals & Letters Eastern Philosophy & Religion Economics Education Erotica Exploration Fiction Classic & Modern Film & Television Food & Drink French Language Gardens Gay & Lesbian German Language History Horror Humour Indigenous Peoples Iowa Judaica Languages & Linguistics Legal, Jurisprudence, Government Literary Criticism & Essays Magic & Occult Martial Arts Medical & Anatomy Military Miscellaneous Motor Vehicles Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance Mystical & Arcane Religion Myths, Legends, Folklore Natural History & the Environment New Age & Alternative Other Languages Personal Development & Self Help Philosophy Photography Poetry Psychology & Psychiatry Railways Reference Science & Botany Science Fiction & Fantasy Ships & The Sea Sociology & Politics Spanish Language Sport, Fishing, Hunting, Guns Theatre & Plays Theology & Religion Trade, Electronics, Mining Women & Feminism
FROM _ The Haunted Bookshop _ in Iowa City
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Cy's List of Proposed Categories
. . (Can the list above help in revising the one below ?? )
. . (For a list of less than 20,000 titles, is it better to keep the list shorter ?? )
Sports
Martial Arts
. Exercise
. Equipment
. Competition and Competitors
Photography
. Other Non-Print Content (See Below: Games, Podcasts, Links)
Video Games and Interactive Communications
Podcasts, E-Commerce, Blogging and Personal Computing Devices
Recordings: Digital, Tape, Vinyl and Hardcopy Text about Artists and Studios
Films and Filmscripts
Links Lists and Online User guides
Communication, Copyright and Privacy Issues
Outdoor Activities
Travel
Guides, Travel, Trails, Discovery, Living Abroad & Lodging
Alternative Medicine, Technologies, Sciences, Lifestyles and Consumables
Theoretic and speculative science, technology and cosmology
Popular Culture Studies and Pulp Literature
Pre-Modern
Modern
Post-modern
Occult and mystic or magical schemas
Applied science, technology and medical care
Home, Garden and Transportation
Kitchen and Dining Guides
Self-Help, Meditation and Inspirational
Reference Material
. . Encyclopedias
. . Dictionaries
. . General References Tools
. . Style and Grammar Guides
. . Specialized Reference Tools
. . Visual Reference Guides
. . Catalogues
. . . . (references online under each sub-topic)
Essays and Short Biographical or Historical Monographs
History and non-fiction narratives
Novels and Stories
. . Genres (romance, sci-fi, westerns, detective ... )
. . Childrens
. . Traditional
. . Speculative & New Journalism
Poetry
. . English. American, Australian
. . German
. . French
. . Spanish
. . . . In Translation
. . Other Languages
Music
Theatre
Plastic Arts and Museum Culture
Paleo- Anthro- Pre-historic Artifacts and Traditions
Classical Egypt, Greece, Rome
People of Colour
Religious movements today
. . . history of cults
Racism and discrimination
Secularism in ideas and institutions
North Americans
Europeans
Asians
Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, Phiippines and Indonesia
Africans
Central and South Americans
Polynesia and Australasia
Political, Sexual and Ethnic Reviews and Manifestoes
Philosophy
Psychology
Conflict, War and Ideology Studies
Military Matters and Munitions
Capitalism Studies
. . Early
. . Advanced
Studies of Socialism, Anarchism and Communism
. . Theory and History
Studies of Merchantilism, Colonialism, Global Finance
Studies of Fascism and Dictatorship or Neo-feudalism or Indentured Labour
Medicine
Education, Teaching, Language Acquisition, and Pedagogic Materials
Humanities
Sciences
Arts
Practical Subjects
Hygiene, Farming and Personal Finances
Physical Sciences
Mathematical Sciences
Biology and Botany Texts
Information Technology: Science, Technique, Tools
Urbanism: Studies, Architecture Critique
