busy91 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I do have a method, but it only makes sense to me. I have an 8 foot tall, 2 column book shelf. I think there are about 7 shelves on either side. Each shelf is organized by similar genre. One shelf will have religious/spirituality books, one will have memoirs/bios etc... I have one shelf of TBR books. Sometimes there is overlap and maybe 2 genre's per shelf. Some of the shelves are 2 books deep. to the untrained eye it is a mess. But ask me for a book, and I will be able to find it in under a minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shnnntam Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 i organize my shelf by genre (fiction, non-fiction, mystery/thriller, etc) but i'm also looking for a new way to organize them because some authors books get separated this way =( like my alice sebold books, the lovely bones and the almost moon are on the fiction shelf but Lucky is on the nonfiction! -SIGH- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Genre first, then by author, not alphabetically, but similar types within the genre are together. Right now I'm happy as a clam with my new built-in shelves in the study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmo Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I try to arrange mine by size and group authors together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Chaos Theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catwoman Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have booksleves all around my house. Textbook and reference books are kept in my office in the garage. I then have a couple of bookshelves in the dining room and one makeshift and one sided bookshelve in my room. I have no real order apart from keeping authors grouped together and if books are in a series like Karin Slaughter's Grant county series then I have them in order. As for books that are yet to be read they are scattered around my house including the corner at the top of the stairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mia Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have too many books to arrange in a proper order. Lack of space and too many books kinda doesn't leave many options. I agree! I do have three bookcases, two of which are in my lounge. One is pretty neat, with books grouped together by author. The other is shared with DVDs, but all my Pratchetts are on the top two shelves! Hardbacks always go on the bottom shelf, as they are heavy and my bookcases are Argos specials and not that sturdy! The shelves tend to bend if piled up with too many books... So really, I tend to group books by author, and will try and put them in order of publication. It annoys me that I have the odd hardback and these have to be separate from the rest of that author's books. Size matters! I try and keep the same size books on each shelf, as this makes a nice level surface to cram more books horizontally on top of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have a lot of series books so they are all stored in chronological order whether or not I've read them all, along with books by the same author. I have a shelf for other books to be read and all my hardback books are on the bottom. Other than that any other books I've read are stored by size and depth . There's nothing nicer than seeing a row of books all by the same author with the matching covers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyvek999 Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I organize my shelf every time I clean my room. I put them my most favorite first and my least favorite last and if some are tied i just stick them in the place in any way. When I am not organizing my shelf I just stick it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peacefield Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I've always tended to sort my books by genre and by author. It also has to do with size, since the shelves on the bottom hold larger books and the top shelf smaller ones. I also only have one bookshelf in my living room right now and that's reserved for the 'pretty' books . The shelves in my bedroom hold the oldies but goodies and are arranged by genre and author. Hopefully my collection will eventually be built back up to what it used to be and I'll have to resort to having random stacks everywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewell Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I just put them on the shelf as they come in. I don't keep a lot of books so it's not diffcult to keep track of them. I know most books i won't read again, so i keep the ones i like for display, such as my favorites, really old looking books (coz i love the look and smell of them), collectors books, and books i know i want to read again at some point. Overall i don't really keep a lot of books. The rest just go to the charity shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I put them where ever they can fit! I do try and keep series together though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genevieve Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 By size and series and author. I have this silly thing though, that I like continuity in color and texture, so I am going about bookcovering all in brown leather and gold lettering. what next I wonder, no I must not even think about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I throw them anywhere. I have no space left. I've taken up 4 shelves with my books. I try to arrange them by colour, but I suck at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 I've posted some pictures of the new built in shelves on my profile page, sorry, it's with a camera phone. I wasn't able to post all the shelves, but you can get an idea anyhow. It's so wonderful to have almost enough space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexiepiper Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Looks amazing Pontalba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
future_perfect Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 At the moment they are arranged by genre, size and how much i liked them. I do regularly change the order though (it's a good stress reliever!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollie Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Mine are by author but not in alphabetical order. My favourites are in the middle of the book shelf. Not so favourites get relegated to the ends. I've no idea why I do that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 The books in our house are shelved in no particular order. We have several bookcases/shelves dotted around the house and most of Andrew's books are upstairs while mine are downstairs.I tend to keep all the books on my to be read list together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontalba Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Looks amazing Pontalba Thanks. It was a lot of fun getting the books out of stacks on the floor, and scattered about the house. The back wall is solid mysteries, and I keep sci-fi together as well. The lower on the wall the literature section, the more favored they are. I just wish I could have them all in one room. Next house maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Oh! I forgot to mention that I have a separate shelf for my text books. It houses all my police procedure books and my Canadian Criminal Codes. I try and keep this shelf really organized and neat so I know where something is when I need to refer to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I've somehow managed to buy so many new books that I have to rearrange my bookshelf and my little bookcupboard. I started this weekend, took out most of my books and did a little arranging, though now I'm just clueless as to how I'm going to arrange them and I'm a bit panicky. There are books everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikkititi Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I try to keep my books arranged by size and colour, but I'm so hopelessly out of room that they mostly just get chucked in wherever there's room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadya Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 I don't really have any rules or tics about that. Well, at least I can't stand it if a large book is between the smaller books, large books of a genre first, then come the smaller books of a genre, but that's not a tic, is it? I try to keep books of a particular genre in one place, but sometimes I just put a book anywhere. I don't have enough book-ends, so occassionally I use a book as a book-end, so that also causes many of my books not to be very organised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andibody Posted August 8, 2009 Share Posted August 8, 2009 Where they fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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