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Seeing some other posters in the SBF made me wonder how you all tend go sort your books in your bookcases. Some of my family like to organise theirs by colour or size, however from my perspective, that's a dark path I'm unable to go down. Personally, I exclusively sort by author, then arrange each of the authors' books in chronological order. Even if this means having a zigzag of book sizes, which my family hates seeing whenever they visit 
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Apr 19, 2023 07:16
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I don't. I stuff them on the shelves and have stacks sitting around on the floor
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Apr 19, 2023 07:35
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Right now, in a box. Before, with the spines toward the wall and the pages pointed out. Eff everybody. I ain't letting anybody know what I have.
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Apr 19, 2023 07:36
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I don't. I stuff them on the shelves and have stacks sitting around on the floor This!! We have a nice bookcase with some first editions and hardback copies of our faves but otherwise my IKEA bookcase didn't survive the last house move and the books on it are load bearing at this point
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Apr 19, 2023 10:26
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Size and then author name. Some level of height consistency is necessary for me unfortunately
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Apr 19, 2023 12:41
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We have a handful of books we keep in the living room for aesthetic purposes, largely based on color of the cover. The other books we organize roughly by genre.
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Apr 19, 2023 12:48
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right now my physical book collection is small enough that my primary sorting is by genre - I have a shelf for general fiction, a shelf for CS nonfiction/reference, a shelf for old textbooks, a shelf for general nonfiction that doesn't fit into other categories, and then a few shelves for comic trades. the comics are the only ones that get sorted more in-depth than that - they get sorted by series/publisher
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Apr 19, 2023 16:37
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I have loose, ad hoc groups by topic and try to keep very closely related works or works by the same author together, with fiction and non-fiction on separate shelves. Easy enough to find things, I guess.
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Apr 19, 2023 16:59
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I don't. I stuff them on the shelves and have stacks sitting around on the floor
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Apr 19, 2023 17:09
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that's not true actually, recipe books go in the kitchen
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Apr 19, 2023 17:10
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...organize?
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Apr 19, 2023 18:35
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Really though in general I order my books using a few different criteria, in order from least to most important: size, topic, author, vibes. I keep all of my trade paperbacks together regardless of topic. I have a shelf of Buddhist and yoga books that's sort of a general Eastern spirituality shelf. Everything else is just sort of wherever.
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Apr 19, 2023 18:49
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I divide them by fiction or nonfiction, and generally sort them alphabetical by last name. if there's a massive book in the letter range on a given shelf however, I'll shove it all the way to the left for practicality's sake.
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Apr 19, 2023 20:51
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I totally organize by size because I have a very nice bookcase, and it'd look all weird if the thing looked like a roller coaster. I'd love to organize by genre/author, but it looks terrible. I tried it. No go 
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Apr 19, 2023 21:29
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My books are double shelved at this point. The ones in the back are more or less sorted by genre and subject matter, and the ones in the front are piled mostly according to size until room opens up for them at the back.
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Apr 20, 2023 00:06
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Aspirationally: sorted primarily by fiction/non-fiction/chess, with books by the same author kept together In practice: in a number of piles around the house based on when I last used that book
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Apr 20, 2023 00:07
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By binding. Mass market paperbacks together, same with trade paperbacks, same with hardcovers. Tall and heavy things live on bottom shelves as stabilizers. Mostly theory though. In this place, books live anywhere they drat well please.
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Apr 20, 2023 01:27
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I have weird shelves where the top and bottom aren't parallel, so that informs a lot of how things get put on the shelf. Honestly even if all my shelves were normal I wouldn't sort my books. The only collection of phizical media I've bothered sorting is my records.
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Apr 20, 2023 03:08
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There's the reference bookshelf, for language books and books in foreign languages, music books, crafting, electronics and programming books, etc. Then the graphic novel shelves, a bookshelf of dumb nostalgic stuff like gifted and borrowed books and yearbooks. Then there's the fiction shelf, and a smaller shelf with our record player, LPs, and poppier paperback fare that people like to borrow. Then there's a shelf of random favorites that are arranged by color in a nice pleasant rainbow. RPG sourcebooks go on two more shelves in the basement game lounge, art reference books go on the bookshelf in the studio. ...and then there's everything else everywhere (from where I'm sitting, I can see seven art books, six RPG source books (nine if you count Kill Team rulebooks), six music books, several language books, some Calvin and Hobbes, and Absolute Final Crisis. I need to clean so bad.).
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Apr 20, 2023 04:32
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By genre, authors grouped together. Same for non-fiction, graphic novels. reference books etc. I can never remember where I pulled a book from so when I put it back I just mash it in where there is space. So in practice, chaos. The books eventually get sorted every time we run out of space, seems to happen every two years or so. Exception being the cookbook shelf since it gets the most use. E: not books but years ago I worked at a dvd rental store and spent a quiet afternoon sorting the new releases by surname of the Key Grip. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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Apr 20, 2023 19:52
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In my cabinet. Big to small Whatever library book I'm reading stays on my bed
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Apr 22, 2023 17:12
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Books I like on the top shelf. Books I didn't like on the bottom shelves.
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Apr 22, 2023 17:25
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in theory: alphabetical by author, alphabetical by title. currently in boxes and piles because my bookcases are not set up.
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Apr 23, 2023 09:36
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:I have loose, ad hoc groups by topic and try to keep very closely related works or works by the same author together, with fiction and non-fiction on separate shelves. Easy enough to find things, I guess. I do this, though size and binding are also factors I also have shelves for particular authors or imprints if I have enough to justify the space
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Apr 23, 2023 14:14
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I've got a bunch of mismatched, slowly collapsing bookshelves with sections for: -Trashy easy reading -SF and fantasy -~Literary~ fiction -Poetry -General non-fiction -Illustrated stuff from the Atlantino Storico to Calvin and Hobbes, definitely not cos they're all awkward shapes and sizes -Job related technical poo poo -Hobby related technical poo poo -Stuff I won't read again, to take to charity Each organised by era/subtype or author surname and constantly degenerating into Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:stuff them on the shelves and have stacks sitting around on the floor
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Apr 23, 2023 15:26
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i put them in big stacks on the floor with the intent to sort them into some kind of intelligible order "at a date to be determined later."
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Apr 24, 2023 00:22
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uber_stoat posted:i put them in big stacks on the floor with the intent to sort them into some kind of intelligible order "at a date to be determined later." What's ur av from
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Apr 24, 2023 01:27
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verbal enema posted:What's ur av from https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/vashtar.html
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Apr 24, 2023 01:38
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thaanks d00d
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Apr 24, 2023 17:07
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Fruits of the sea posted:E: not books but years ago I worked at a dvd rental store and spent a quiet afternoon sorting the new releases by surname of the Key Grip.  Seriously, alternative indexing and taxonomies that cause you to look at a data set in a different way are totally my jam.
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Apr 25, 2023 17:16
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I don't. I stuff them on the shelves and have stacks sitting around on the floor I wish it weren't this. But it's this.
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Apr 28, 2023 05:11
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drat, with all the people simply having unsorted piles of books, we really need a goonproject for everyone to overhaul their sorting methods! Ah well - it's much better to have many unsorted books, than no books at all!
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Apr 28, 2023 05:31
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Fruits of the sea posted:By genre, authors grouped together. Same for non-fiction, graphic novels. reference books etc. I do this, with some care to make it look nice in terms of size (so authors won't be in alphabetical order) Organised bookshelves make me feel really happy and comfortable with my living space, and I wish I had a bigger place to have more bookshelves in more rooms for more good vibes.
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Apr 28, 2023 11:57
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I brought my Drake posted:
It was weirdly satisfying. I have a family member who works as a production team lead and there's so much to that job that I think they deserve some recognition. Unfortunately most credits tend to list them all as "production assistant" for that to be a viable way of indexing. It's way more than an assistant when they are responsible for procuring animals, booking accommodation and transportation etc. Thinking back, sorting films by length in each genre would have actually been useful. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Apr 28, 2023 |
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Apr 28, 2023 12:45
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Post pics of your shelves if you have them
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Apr 28, 2023 14:49
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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! 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.
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Apr 28, 2023 20:06
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rollick posted:Post pics of your shelves if you have them are we going to do the classic goon "clean your house" bit or can we just post shelves? because mine are dusty AF as the youths say
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Apr 28, 2023 20:57
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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. I've got a job dude.
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Apr 28, 2023 21:02
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Hobologist posted:wonder if you lent it to someone or got rid of it ???
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i've got poetry shelves alphabetically arranged by author and the rest is a big sign saying Good Luck. My spouse sorts by rough chronology, and all of my prose and NF is just kind of arranged roughly by theme and how much i want to remember they exist
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