I think growing up on a steady diet of fanfiction made me hate traditional book genres. Like, I don’t care what the overall “theme” is. Gimme the tags. Is there character death? Sibling rivalry? Snarky best friend? That’ll do way more to get me into a book than slotting it into one of a dozen strictly defined boxes that tells me almost nothing.
Last time I was in a bookstore I was rifling through the paperbacks going “where the hell is the Content rating? is this ‘mature’ or are we in for actual funtimes here? And where are the Content Warnings? whatcha got here book? You gonna get weird on me?” So really, Ao3 has me spoiled.
This gave me a brilliant idea for book displays at the library. #angst #enemies to lovers #plot twist
You are a good librarian!
I only have flat shelves to work with but…. I did it.
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. YOU ARE A GOD AMONGST MORTALS.
I found a book in the library with content tags and suddenly I realised what I’d been missing all this time.
Is there a blog for that? Like a blog where people recommend books and like give them their tags? Because I feel like that would be AMAZING
Tempted to start doing this whenever I read/reread something.
Reblogging this version for awesome librarians!
Neat idea.
That should be a wiki so people can contribute. I would!
Oh that’s a fantastic idea! Accessible to everyone both to contribute and to search and compare to the selection at any library or bookstore.
And then libraries etc. could contribute and participate by posting the website on their door or something similar.
What do you think Tumblr?
I would so love a way to quickly find a book that pushes all my right buttons, but also has tags for anything that I might have an issue with (like killing an animal in a horror; seriously that’s cheap)
Does the dog die, crossed with a wiki, crossed with good reads. Anyone know if there is something like that already?
If you can get the ball rolling I’d be happy to contribute what I know and do what I can to boost it on social media.
*bounces up and down with armfuls of sparkly multicolored string* put me in, coach
OP here! If you lot wanna do this, I’m down to create some graphics for promotional purposes and the like! That’s about all I’ve got time for, but I’d be happy to do it. Just let me know!
LETS DO THIS
DISCORD SERVER IS LIVE. It is still very basic, but it is up. I started on this accidentally about five minutes ago, so gimmie a bit to get things settled.
If you are interested in contributing to the creation of a website for tagging books, please join this server!!!
