I can’t find the banana book in my library system, but I picked up the salt book last night. I’m about halfway through it now; it really is excellent.
Thanks for mentioning it, Taomist!
I did a lookup in my distribution database. Here are the BISAC categories and Dewey Decimal System classifications for your three books:
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
- Music | Business Aspects
- Music | History & Criticism | General
Dewey: 384
Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
Dewey: 422
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
- Business & Economics | Industries | Agribusiness
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | General
Dewey: 634.772
The LOC (Library of Congress) categories are different.
Does that help?
In the “Narrative History” category, I enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel.
When travelling at see, determining longitude was much more difficult than determining latitude. But the difficulty of calculating longitude caused many deaths at see. The British Parliament in the 18th century offered a huge reward to the person capable of devising a solution to this problem.
What would the solution be? A better way to observe star positions? More precise star charts? Or would it be … a better watch?
Yes it did, thank you. I was hoping that there was something that could tie, at least two of them together. It looks like the only classification in common is “General”. No biggie; I was just curious.
If this happens all the time it’s likely a reading issue with you, but there are a lot of novel, that are badly edited or written, and this does become a problem.
If you’re reading a classic like “To Kill A Mockingbird,” you shouldn’t have this issue