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[graculus]

I feel as though my HP recs page is getting unwieldy, mostly because the fandom is just too talented and/or prolific - it's certainly substantially larger than any other single fandom on there. Which is a good thing if you're an HP fan, but I'm wondering if there's a better way to organise it than my present version (preferably one that doesn't involve me bending my brain round mysql... *grins at xochiquetzl*).

So, let's pick your brains, good friends list people... share your thoughts on the subject with me!

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[rivier.livejournal.com]

Well, um... no more arbitrary than grouping by author or pairing or genre or date. They're all simply collating / clustering selection processes. Size has the advantage of mixing everything up - all the other determinants incorporate a kind of classification which does tempt potential readers into a narrower type of pre-selection - such as, I'm not reading anything written before the last book came out / after the last film came out. Or, I'm only reading in x pairing, or fic by y author.

But most readers don't make inflexible selections based on length of fic - that does tend to vary according to how much time you have to read, whether you're in the mood for long or short.

More complicated than your other options? ::shrugs:: I have no idea. I'm assuming all fic is fairly easy to run a word count / file size check on. I've certainly seen a couple of rec lists organised in that way, so it can't be insurmountably complicated.

But as they say in my Department, eh, whatever: I'm off to make a cup of tea!