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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1884635" data-attributes="member: 4400">Cthulhu's Librarian, I dunno about anyone else, but I have a pretty simple way to tell the difference between literature and fiction.  If I can roll rapidly through pages without having to stop and think about what's going on, it's fiction.  If I have to stop and think about what I'm reading and it takes me more than two days to read per 500 pages or so, it's literature.  Though by that definition most non-fiction and all poetry is also literature.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's not that I dislike literature, quite the contrary.  I'm not always in the mood for it, but when I am I like it to be lumped all together so I don't have to sort through John Grisham and Stephen King to find it.Oh, and Morrus, give the online bookstores a few more years and you could very well get your wish.  As a quasi-regular Amazon customer I'm always getting recommendations based on my past purchases and how I've rated them.  So far the recommendations are so-so (and absolutely horrible when it comes to game books), but as time goes on the system is bound to improve.  Eventually online bookstores may very well be able to have a personalized section of books you'll like.</blockquote>