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Part 2: The Definitive Book Category Taxonomy — 20 Domains, 150+ Subcategories, Every Classification Rule Explained
An exhaustively researched, 5000-word guide to categorising books for a lifetime reading library on GitHub. Covers every category decision rule, explains how libraries, publishers, and the BISAC system classify books — and provides the complete folder architecture for an unlimited-scale MDX book repository.
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- Part 2 Part 2: The Definitive Book Category Taxonomy — 20 Domains, 150+ Subcategories, Every Classification Rule Explained An exhaustively researched, 5000-word guide to categorising books for a lifetime reading library on GitHub. Covers every category decision rule, explains how libraries, publishers, and the BISAC system classify books — and provides the complete folder architecture for an unlimited-scale MDX book repository.
- Part 3 Part 3: The Automated Library Organizer — Category Limits, Folder Manifests, and a Production-Grade Agent Prompt A research-backed guide to re-evaluating category limits for a large personal library. Introduces the concept of Category Manifest MDX files and provides a massive, actionable prompt for coding agents to organize and validate a library repository of 5000+ books.
- Part 4 Part 4: The Personalized Category Taxonomy — Custom Shelves for Code, Capital, and Autonomy A highly tailored taxonomy designed specifically for an optimization-focused software engineer. Condenses standard humanities while expanding distributed systems, local AI, volatility trading, Indian tax structures, and homelab infrastructure.
- Part 5 Part 5: The Universal Book Classification Taxonomy — 30 Categories, 200+ Subcategories, Every Decision Rule Grounded in Library Science A 7000-word exhaustive guide to organizing any library from first principles. Synthesizes the Dewey Decimal System, Library of Congress Classification, BISAC's 54 major headings, Ranganathan's Colon Classification, and modern personal library research into a single, universal taxonomy anyone can implement immediately.
- Part 6 Part 6: The Exhaustive PKM Book Taxonomy — 33 Categories, 100+ Subcategories, and 300+ Sub-subcategories An exhaustive, three-level hierarchical taxonomy for book organization in personal knowledge management systems. Places learning how to learn first, merges philosophy and religion, and leaves no node of human knowledge unmapped.