So whoever was asking about the e-ink readers and lighting, B&N has come out with a lit version of the Simple Touch.

Okay, so I have kind of a thought experiment.

Say I currently have a web site with links. Many, many links. Currently it's in frames (shut up! it works fine!), with a drop-down navigation menu on the left and the links on the right.

If I were crazy enough to try and update it, what is there, functionality-wise? I would want something that enabled me to put the links into categories (fandoms), tag them (gen, het, slash), display them either alphabetically or by date...and possibly do some other stuff I haven't thought of.

database. Some predefined queries as some menu choices, some simple dropdown menus to let users narrow the predefined queries. If you really want to be fancy a form for user defined queries (within limits). Being vague because criteria is vague. For instance you could let user choose by fandom alone and by tag alone or by fandom and tag combined. Display order is easy, and you could also let user limit by date, or by stuff like "completed". You could also let user choose by multiple fandoms at once - and instead of having to posiively choose tags, let them eliminate tags - so everything OK except repe noncon and dubcon or whatever.

I think most fan archives do this these days.

Oy, Dana. That does sound crazy, and yet you'd be a hero. Maybe you could crowd-source the work?

I really feel like it ought to be doable in WordPress somehow, but maybe the scope is too large.

It's definitely doable in WordPress, although it would take a bit of custom coding and/or a good plugin to manage the shitton of metadata involved. The harder part is thinking through the structure of the information and how you want people to be able to access it.

After that, send in the fangirls!

(I can take a look at the available book review plugins when I get a moment at a proper computer - most of them have a bunch of overhead for pulling in ISBNs and amazon links and whatnot, but the basic structure of reviews, authors, genres, etc may be a good place to start if you can play with the categorization at will.)

That would be fabulous, whenever you have time. The other keyword seems to be "link directory", but I didn't even think of book reviews.

The harder part is thinking through the structure of the information and how you want people to be able to access it.

Yeah, but that bit is way easier to crowdsource, especially when we want to keep it fairly simple. Which I think we would.

(or your other open-source publishing platform of choice. I get a little WP Likes Carrots sometimes.)

Well, I'm already familiar with WordPress, and since both of us have jobs and lives and stuff, any minimizing of the learning curve is good.

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I just downloaded it.

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