I try to keep books by the same author together. Otherwise my organization is mostly based on whether I'm reading that kind of thing (for various values of "that kind of thing") much these days and whether it's one of the bookcases that needs heavier books on the bottom to keep it upright.
Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Calli - Aug 20, 2010 9:58:08 am PDT #12122 of 28342
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Scrappy - Aug 20, 2010 10:03:05 am PDT #12123 of 28342
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have our books organized by room, since we have bookcases in different rooms.
LR: Tall shelf, House, gardening books and McSweeneys. Small shelf, childrens lit, the few first editions we own, Childcraft and Book House sets. Shelves by fireplace: art, photogrpahy books.
BR: favorite fiction, Heyers, magazine collection
Guest room --books by friends on one shelf. Music/guitar books on one wall, other wall is more fiction, also humor books.
Office -- reference books, biographies, car/motorcycle books, movie/theater reference.
Steph L. - Aug 20, 2010 10:09:24 am PDT #12124 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My books are primarily organized by how often I want to reread them.
This.
And, to a lesser degree, by size, because I can't stand seeing tall-short-tall-short-short-short-tall-short-tall-tall-tall, etc.
Fred Pete - Aug 20, 2010 10:10:03 am PDT #12125 of 28342
Ann, that's a ferret.
People organize their books?
brenda m - Aug 20, 2010 10:11:14 am PDT #12126 of 28342
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My books are primarily organized by how often I want to reread them.
And, to a lesser degree, by size, because I can't stand seeing tall-short-tall-short-short-short-tall-short-tall-tall-tall, etc.
This is me.
-t - Aug 20, 2010 10:12:08 am PDT #12127 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Currently, the only organization in my library is separation into piles of books that I mean to read and piles of books that I have already read. Some of the piles are on shelves.
It's not a good system, but it suffices. Sort of.
Kathy A - Aug 20, 2010 10:14:11 am PDT #12128 of 28342
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The books I've got on stack on the floor or tables are only there because I haven't had time to rearrange my shelves to put them into place. If they're on the shelves, they must be in the proper order, damnit!!
Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2010 10:15:39 am PDT #12129 of 28342
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
My books are arranged exclusively by height.
Steph L. - Aug 20, 2010 10:19:02 am PDT #12130 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dang, Scola, that is a thing of beauty!
juliana - Aug 20, 2010 10:27:02 am PDT #12131 of 28342
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Scola, that is awesome.
My books are separated into: plays, anthologies of plays, books about theater, screenplays, books about movies, fiction (with a subdivide of cyberpunk/Adams/Gaiman/Pratchett), humor, spirituality (those are shelved next to each other), comics, history/sociology/biography, art/design.