I recently got new bookshelves for my room, and I’m just loving them. Spent the afternoon putting up my books and sharing it on my blog . One of my friends asked a question and I thought it would be a great BTT question. So from Tina & myself, we’d like to know “How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on?”
I used to have a system when I had enough space for all the books I owned. I have two bookshelves in my room at my parents’ house. One is my mass market paperbacks, which are shelved two books high in some shelves and always two books deep, if that makes sense. The other one is meant for trade paperbacks and hardcovers. Needless to say, they are both crammed with books. My preferred system is alphabetizing by author and within that, publication date. I used to be very organized about this, but I have too many books now and there’s no way I’m moving them all around just to get a book in its proper place, so everything is a bit haphazard.
When I finally live in my own house and have a full-time job, I plan on having many more bookcases. I’ve decided to try shelving by genre, or at least keep separate the few genres I really like, and alphabetize within that. It will be a long time before my collection is all together and before I have enough money to actually house them all nicely, but when that happens I’m glad I already know exactly how it will be done!
I have my books organized by how I got them, because almost all of them are to be read. Most of the books I’ve already finished are on loan to someone.
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It’s good that you can plan on the future. Happy BTT. Here’s my answer:
http://bookcritiques.blogspot.com/2009/02/booking-through-thursday-storage.html
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I alphabetize by author, too.
Good luck on organizing! I’m a total failure.
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I’m still waiting for that one place where I’ll be able to have all my books out of storage and on the shelves. I’ve been waiting for nearly 25 years now, but I’m still hoping to make it happen someday! Hope you don’t have to wait quite so long.
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Oh god, shelving books… I’d have to say something about this topic, as I’m often referred to as having OCD when it comes to books and stationaries. When I moved a couple years ago, I spent days just packing and unpacking my books. I have 3 bookshelves, and tons of books, here’s my little OCD-system…
First, I separate everything by language (I read books in 3 different languages), and then by type. I’ve a lot of manga (Japanese comic books), so they go together, novels also go together, magazines and then other non-fiction books, with a special section for cookbooks/cooking related books.
And then, I organize them by height. (Yes, height… and yes, OCD…) The taller ones will go on the very left, and the books will descend in height as they go to the right side of the shelve. They are also organized by author, and series. So if I have books of different sizes of the same author, I get into trouble.
My solution? Buy the same size books from the same author. If I started off the series with Mass Market Paperbacks, I will not be buying hardcovers…
Yes, OCD.
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Fiction – alpha by author
non-fiction – by subject
TBR – stacked on the floor. At one point they fit on the shelves, but they’ve run over now.
Yes, it’s good to have a plan for “someday” …
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