Could LV maybe make some playlists of books/poems/etc to a certain theme available as a way to browse, as a sort of mega catalogue page?
Romantic poets, Victorian authors, stream-of-consciousness [have to wait for Virginia Woolf though], transcendentalists, romanticists, realists, etc.
Also possible, "Great Books" lists or more specifically [because that is pretty much LV] "Eastern Canon/Asian Classics" or "The Western Canon" [ridiculously huge list; split by country+era]? Could we maybe compile all the books on a Great Books college reading list and make a playlist of it, for example, though rather compiling it ourselves for PD reasons? this sort of thing: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtgood.html
http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtasian.html and anything else on that site really
Starting the American Library list of best books, maybe [though I'm sure not half are PD].
obvs. translation is a problem and not ripping off lists that are probably copyrighted [can you copyright a list of books that other people wrote?] but is that idea viable? It'd be a cool way to browse if it's not absolutely silly, and make it easier to find something else of the same sort if you've exhausted one author of a certain genre/period.
Just an idea!
Playlists
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress,
therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
Yes, I have seen those before, and they're pretty awesome. 
I meant something slightlyyyy different, like engineering compilations of books slightly more specific, eg victorian authors having books by charles dickens and lewis carroll and rudyard kipling + their contemporaries, in case someone was specifically interested in victorian literature, but I suppose having that is enough.
I meant something slightlyyyy different, like engineering compilations of books slightly more specific, eg victorian authors having books by charles dickens and lewis carroll and rudyard kipling + their contemporaries, in case someone was specifically interested in victorian literature, but I suppose having that is enough.[i]...the stoic Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it attempt to feed on figs.[/i]
[b]:thus spake sarah.[/b]
[b]:thus spake sarah.[/b]
I think it's something that would be available if we were able to tag projects as well as just label them by genre. In the meantime, a Wiki listing is the clunky but non-tech-requiring way of doing it ... anyone can start their own wiki page any time, and hang as many Suggested Listening For People Who Like ... pages off it as they like.
http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/
http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/
There's honestly no such thing as a stupid question -- but I'm afraid I can't rule out giving a stupid answer : : To Posterity and Beyond!
I wouldn't mind trying to start something like that, Cori. It'd be nice eventually to have a sort of super-catalogue page with links to the individual books instead of chapters, and a little description of the genre at the top. A wiki page is a super start though.
[i]...the stoic Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after giving his donkey wine, then seeing it attempt to feed on figs.[/i]
[b]:thus spake sarah.[/b]
[b]:thus spake sarah.[/b]