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Hobologist posted:Nah. I remember an essay by Lin Yutang about why libraries shouldn't be organized: "Organizing a library is a science, but disorganizing it is an art." You look for a volume high and low and left and right, find half a dozen other books you also want to read while you're searching, and when you find the book you've genuinely found it, as opposed to merely locating it, or you wonder if you lent it to someone or got rid of it. Your library should be like a great city that always has a street you've never been down before and you never know what you'll find there. This is a very romantic attitude, I agree. But drat, if I'm in a hurry and need to find a particular book, I'd prefer our current method! haha 
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lending books is "based"
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Libraries are like fish tanks. You can't just keep adding water; you have to drain and replace some of it eventually
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Famethrowa posted:lending books is "based" I lent a guy a book and he moved to Helsinki with it.
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Major Isoor posted:drat, with all the people simply having unsorted piles of books, we really need a goonproject for everyone to overhaul their sorting methods! you say unsorted, i say emergent organization based on use
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I'm a school librarian so I'd love to say I follow rules that make sense with my own books at home, but size is always gonna win out with personal collections... The best I have is a shelf that is almost entirely Junji Ito manga, but there wasn't enough for the whole shelf, so there's some random novels around those, but then my edition of Junji ito's Cat Diary and his artbook are way too tall and both ended up on two other shelves nowhere near eachother. I have another manga shelf going and I keep changing my mind on alphabetical by title, alphabetical by author, or trying to group by era. I've been doing the last option because it works out nicely having it go in a vague decade order since half my collection is old stuff like Tezuka, Rose of Versailles, etc. and then some new stuff.
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Right now I'm down to one bookshelf with one shelf being mostly nerdy tabletop wargame rulesets, a second shelf of mostly nerdy reference books (Haynes manuals on spaceships and tanks, a book of things cut in half by a water jet, etc), and the third shelf is just random crap. Back in the day though as a weird kid I had all my Calvin & Hobbes and Farside books arranged by publishing date and all my Star Wars and Clive Cussler novels sorted by when they're supposed to take place in their respective timelines. Once I get some more space, I'll probably just chuck books in however I feel at that moment.
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I used to be a pile, but I organized into genre a few weeks ago and I'm loving it. nonfiction/politics, fantasy/scifi, cookbooks/textbooks, manga/graphic novels, western "canon" lit, and international lit. fun when I'm having a different mood to go between sections
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Famethrowa posted:I used to be a pile Ugh, that's a pain in the rear end.
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First by genre/topic. Second by author. Third by date of publish. Then, when I inevitably run out of space in the bookshelves, wherever the gently caress I can stack them.
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i have shelves for my arkham house/gnome press/sword & sorcery 1st editions, art books get their own shelves by genre, then s&s paperbacks, rpg, occult, then just misc old editions or cool bindings. i pretty much only display my collection or related books, not everything is valuable but it's all interesting to look at on a shelf. normal books i read i just read on kindle and dont usually buy physical copies.
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May 4, 2023 02:49
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 I do keep all my Penguin Classics on one shelf
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do you have two editions of don quijote, or is it just split in two unnumbered volumes? also some real chaotic poo poo placing another book between karamazov 1 and 2
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I have two Don Quixotes. I have not reaphabetized them in a while and I always grab these editions when I find them in thrift stores so they're a little random
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May 6, 2023 00:47
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It appears you actually have 3 don quixotes dude
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I guess the abridged one in the portable Cervantes counts
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Dons Quixote
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Arrhythmia posted:It appears you actually have 3 don quixotes dude the sex ghost posted:Dons Quixote
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The first bookcase visitors see if they are foolish enough to enter my apt is for the ones with leather/"leather" covers, so it looks impressively snobby until they read the titles. The rest of the fiction books are alphabetical by author, then by title for the stand-alone novels, then the series are in order of occurrence. If the author wrote multiple series, they are by length of series (short to long). I only sort by size if I'm packing boxes for moving. . . . yes, I do like being able to put my book away without turning on the lights.
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The bookcases in the study hold the books I've read, in alphabetical order, following the following rules: - If it's a part of a series, by series and then by series volume if it exists, by author if the series doesn't use numbers - If not, by surname of author or first author (not counting vons, des, vans, etc.) - If the author(s) are not listed on the cover or front leaf, by title, not by editor(s) - Original language before translations, and translations in following order: Finnish, English, Swedish, others who knows - Numbers in numerical order before letters - Other symbols before numbers and letters (so the first book is one from the !-series) - Large books go in the Expedits, in same order - W gets alphabetized as V where appropriate (e.g. Waltari goes in the Vs but Wallace goes in the Ws) The bookcases in the living room hold the books I haven't read: - One Kallax for English-language books I've bought, received as gifts, or otherwise acquired with intent, organized by size - One Kallax for Finnish-lanauge books I've bought, received as gifts, or otherwise acquired with intent, ornanized by size - One big Expedit with books I've inherited, organized via Tetris Other: - Swedish-language books go behind other books (Kallax and Expedit are both deep enough for this), same with German and French (until I manage to read them) - Donald Duck's Pocketbooks and Tex Willers also (after I've read them) Reference works have their own small bookshelf in the study Goal is to use the living room shelves for other storage as well. Optimist that I am, I bought some cabinet doors and drawers to go in them already, ready to install as I read more books. Also have some unassambled Billys at the ready for the study. It's all very sane.
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Mostly by 'what shelf do they fit on', but my housemate legit uses Universal Decimal Classification, but she also has a shitload more physical books than I do.
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May 7, 2023 20:32
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Tallest to shortest, a display book cover forward, then shortest to tallest. Non-fiction on the left, fiction on the right.
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Doctor Yiff posted:Mostly by 'what shelf do they fit on', but my housemate legit uses Universal Decimal Classification, but she also has a shitload more physical books than I do. Wow, your housemate is dedicated! drat, I'm kinda wishing I had the drive to go that far with my sorting scheme!
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Usually by genre and then author but not in alphabetical order.
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chainchompz posted:Usually by genre and then author but not in alphabetical order. I used to organize roughly by genre but there are way too many outliers.
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Heath posted:
The almost-but-not-quite-alphabetical order is physically painful
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Enfys posted:The almost-but-not-quite-alphabetical order is physically painful I'm gonna fix it!!
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