[Categories] A new book category for Mooks/Magazines

Description of your request or bug report: How about a new category for magazines and Mooks?

Hi everyone,
Recently we have started a book club for the literary magazine GOAT and we were a bit unsure about adding it to Natively, because while the bulk of the magazines are short stories, many people do read it for the interviews, discussion pieces and essays that are also heavily featured.

Other popular magazines in this category are Harta (WaniKani club), which basically does the same thing for manga, and ユリイカ, which mixes contemporary and emerging authors, with subcultures and cinema

Other famous ones are the classic: 文藝新潮文學界 and 群像

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Also, I think entries in that category should be excluded from grading because difficulty will vary wildly not just across volumes, but inside a given volume as well. (Also, typically people don’t read those front to back, just the parts they care about, making it even harder to gauge difficulty)

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Yes, definitely excluded. For example I have some amazing Yurucamp Mooks, but even among those from the same series, the difficulty is completely different, either they are telling you about an amazing product, a side story of the series, or guides to go to places.

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