User blog comment:Zathronas/Author's Advice: 1st or 3rd person?/@comment-9090085-20140201013509

Your definitions of 1st and 3rd person are... different then the definitions I was given in textbooks; namely, that 1st person refers entirely to stories where "I" is used for the POV character, while "3rd person limited-omniscient" is used for 3rd person where we know only what our POV character thinks/knows, and "3rd person omniscient" for when we know what several/all characters in the scene think/know. (they had no name for when you don't know what any character thinks/knows)

Then again, your "1st person" sounds a lot like the "3rd person limited-omniscient" that I usually see in novels.

I have also seen 3rd person(the "you don't know anyone's thoughts" version) used for things that read more like a historical record.

Well, I am still leaning these things, and what things are called(I also haven't read a writing textbook in years, so I may be totally off).

(oh, for anyone else, POV = Point Of View)