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In response to "I feel like it should be on a case by case basis. -- nm" by Krusty

You know what, I should retract some of this. There's actually a much better way to think of this. The 2 categories of texts shouldn't be fiction and -- (edited)

Posted by mara Jul 29 '16, 15:10

nonfiction. It should be nonfiction and literature. You're right, nonfiction is based on truth.

Literature are the genres of novel, short story, essay, drama, poetry, letters, journals, and speeches. (I may be missing some.)

What libraries do is put all literature in the Dewey Decimal System and shelve it with nonfiction (there are numbers for all of it, even fiction) *except* for novels and short stories, which they call the fiction section. And put the other genres in the nonfiction section with the actual nonfiction (which really should be called the Dewey section).

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Got it. I'm sorry for dragging this out but I was genuinely curious. Thanks for the detailed answer. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:16 2
- Heh, I was thinking of apologizing to ST, but *I'm* happy to talk about it. It's actually been helpful to me. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:17 1
  - Cool. :-) -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 29, 15:24

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