This week’s question is suggested by Kat:
My books are generally arranged by genre/theme. For example, all my non-fiction books are grouped together, but then my NASA books have their own grouping within the non-fiction books. I also have an "India" area, where all my books about India reside, but these are sub-categorized by author (Rushdie books together, Jhumpa Lahiri books together, Indu Sundaresan books together, etc.) So I guess I can say that my books are arranged by genre and grouped by author.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?”
That's my living room bookshelf. Now, the bookshelf in my guest bedroom/reading room is arranged three ways: there are the books I need to review, the books I haven't read, and the books I need to find a new home for. There's not much arranging beyond this, in terms of genre or author. And there are definitely books I haven't read out in the living room, but generally once I know I want to read them soon, I move them onto the other bookshelf.
Whew! To me it's simple, but when I spell it out like that it seems much more complicated!
10 comments:
I think anyone elses system would seem complicated and confusing to others. I know mine would. I am pretty much the only one who can find books in my home, but I know just where they all are.
I like the idea of keeping the TBR books separate from all the others. I'm trying that this year for my challenge books. Yes, I guess everybody feels at home with their own system, no matter how chaotic it might seem to someone else.
I don't keep a lot of books once I've read them so all three of my bookshelves are TBR.
As long as you know where they are, it's a good plan. My response is here:
http://bookcritiques.blogspot.com/2009/02/booking-through-thursday-storage.html
I guess you don't have stacks anywhere like I do.
I need to work on my organization. i like yours though!
Storage
It does sound like you're quite organized though. That's more than I can say for myself.
I shelve by author and/or genre.
You are way organized than I am. You make me feel I am very lazy :)
My TBR stacks are a disaster, but the rest is organized :)
My desk, on the other hand ... I know where everything is, but there's no "system" that I could explain to anyone.
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