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[fajrdrako]

From February 20, 2009: How do you arrange your books on your shelves? Is it by author, by genre, or you just put it where it falls on?

Two methods. Large books, hardcovers, and graphic novels have to be shelved where they will fit. As much as possible, they are grouped by subject. Groupings include the following:

• Doctor Who and Torchwood are together by the bathroom door; with library books and borrowed graphic novels on the bottom shelf.
  
• poetry, cookbooks, classics and Shakespeare are in the shelves by the kitchen door, along with borrowed books
  
• Dorothy Dunnett hardcovers have their own shelves
  
• Reference works, dictionaries (I have quite a collection of dictionaries now: besides Chambers, which is the best, and Mirriam-Webster, which I keep for the etymological dates, there's the dictionary of slang, dictionary of myths, dictionary of medieval weapons, illustrated dictionary, science dictionary, and so on.
  
• Esperanto books are together
  
• Latin books are together
  
• history and biography loosely grouped by subject/period

Then there is the paperback fiction. Shelved alphabetically by author, but seriously in need of being done all over again, as some of the books are disordered now.

I have a new spot in my DVD shelving for "newly acquired paperbacks".

Comments

[filkferengi]

Sounds logical enough. 17catherines would love shelving the cookbooks with the Shakespeare!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Seems to me that poetry, Shakespeare and cookbooks should go together. Some groupings just seem appropriate. Or maybe it's a case of favourite things together?

[filkferengi]

Birds of a feather? What do your roomies have to say?

[chirp, chirp.]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

They say: chirp twitter twitter cheep. Interpret as you wish.