Organising a bookcase
Emmeline Westin
10 years ago
I'm quite fussy when it comes to my bookcase, I like to organise my books after genre! Other people display their books by colour or alphabetically.
What's your method? Snap a pic of your bookcase and share your ideas.
What's your method? Snap a pic of your bookcase and share your ideas.
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Luciana
10 years agolast modified: 10 years agoMine are automatically organised after 'last read' by Kindle.
His... there's a whole system: first edition, some autographed & worth more than any average salary - in his office, on the right, away from harmful UV rays and (hopefully) any source of water, fire, visiting kids with sticky fingers, 'friends' who want to borrow something to read, etc. Some hardbacks and coffee table stuff - on the left.
In the loft - everything else, organised by genre after the year of release and then alphabetically by author and then alphabetically after author's books' titles. Ask him if you want more details... I have a headache already.
Maria Cristina Rigo
10 years agoI organise my books by author... and then I've all italian authors in a wall and the foreign ones in another wall... in the third one I've ancient books. That was my husband's system and I try to apply it. In spite of my natural disorder!
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feeny
10 years agolast modified: 10 years agoLuciana
10 years agolast modified: 10 years ago
summilux
10 years agoWhen we did our 2014 remodel to accommodate our overstuffed bookshelves, we had the best intentions to organize on the subject/author by alphabet method. We used the lower shelves for the more often used categories and left the nosebleed sections for the stuff we don't use as often. We had the intention of providing space for expansion. Well, not quite 2 years later, the excess capacity for the more often used sections is gone. Seems as if organizing by subject/genre with room for expansion is the mainstay, then one is almost destined for major re-organization periodically. Don't see a way around that. I thought we would be adding more shelves to the North wall in 4-5 years, but it might have to happen this summer to allow for expansion. We also have 5 satellite branches (DW's office, my office, cookbooks, oversize books, my novels/lit/philosophy section to the main branch/library-music room. I love having first world problems. When I was a kid, I dreamed of having a house full o' books.
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