I got my hands on a Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500 - you may have seen these in conference rooms, its a small Teams Room or Zoom Room device, based off their Tiny lineup, with a built-in touch display thats about 11" in diagonal.

https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkSmart/ThinkSmart_Hub_500/ThinkSmart_Hub_500_Spec.pdf

I left the 128gb nvme in there for now, and threw Debian 12 on it. Touch worked throughout the installation process, all I did was attach a keyboard, power, and network (along with the thumb drive with netinstall), now installed with KDE.

Considering the specs, the only part I'm surprised works well is the touchscreen, its otherwise just a generic lenovo tiny (which I have several of already, 6th-9th gen, as part of my tiny/mini/micro server stack). I could have chosen a different flavor, but I'm a long, long, loooonngggg time Debain user so its my go-to.

In terms of touch, tap, drag, and long press are all working. Video looks good with the UI set at 125% scaling, and to be candid its rather snappy and responsive.

I did this 100% for my own personal entertainment, so now for some thoughts for the community - what would be fun to use it for? A few of my thoughts....

• I could use it as a HomeAssistant kiosk. Neat, but.... overkill compared to the tablets doing the same job.
• Make it an emulation station, attach my steam controller and maybe my usb adapters for N64/GC/Sega/PS/etc.
• Use it to test a series of distributions to see how well they handle touch drivers for this silly thing (EndeavorOS is probably going to happen, I may be a long time Debian guy but I should spend more regular time in other things, and not just my arch VMs).
• I don't know, gcompris for my kids? They already have it though on an android tablet and an old mac mini (like, 2011ish) hooked up to the TV in the living room.
• Make it another proxmox endpoint for the cluster, install a DE anyway, and then let it be an always-visible display for grafana?
• Install OBS, let the hdmi capture have some purpose?

What about you folks, what would you find fun to do with this box?

TL;DR: How do you sort your books for your book server?

I'm thinking of reworking my eBook/comic/etc library, and I'm curious how other people structure things.

I don't want to separate fiction out by genre or anything since some can fit multiple genres, so I'm leaning towards Dewey decimal system categories personally.

I'm also planning a bit ahead since my daughter is now starting to read more than sight words books, so I'm thinking of separating kids fiction and adult fiction.

I also currently have a section for comics, manga, and LNs. Those are separated mostly for who goes to what, and what they do/don't want to read. So my library right now (plus the kids section) will look like:

• Kids Fiction
• Adult Fiction
• Comics
• Manga
• Light/Web Novels
• Non-Fiction

Simple for navigation, and searchable, but maybe not the best for browsing. So I was thinking maybe the Dewey categories:

• Computer Science, Knowledge, and Systems
• Philosophy & Psychology
• Social Sciences
• Language
• Science
• Technology
• Arts
• Adult Fiction
• Kids Fiction
• History/Geography

Nicely browsable, but some of those sections will be really light on books.

What method of sorting do you use? Any librarians out there with thoughts on better approaches than the Dewey decimal system?

EDIT: I really like what @thayer@lemmy.ca mentioned, which I've currently adapted to:

• Instructional (How-to, manuals, gardening, etc)
• Tech (Electronics reference materials, programming reference books, etc).
• Equine (all my wife's horse stuff)
• Kids Fiction
• Kids Non-Fiction (I've got some geography books and such my daughter likes, I'm sure it will expand over time)
• Adult Fiction
• Adult Non-Fiction
• Comics
• Manga
• LN/WN

I can easily allow the kids accounts to have access to the Kids section, not include the comics/manga/tech my wife has no interest in, etc.