Dang, Scola, that is a thing of beauty!
Angel's lame. His hair goes straight up, and he's bloody stupid!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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."
Steph L. - Aug 20, 2010 10:19:02 am PDT #12130 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2010 10:36:17 am PDT #12132 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My books are arranged exclusively by height.
You don't have Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour ? Also, that is totally cool.
My books are not very well organized. My comics are organized by title.
Tom Scola - Aug 20, 2010 10:38:00 am PDT #12133 of 28342
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You don't have Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour ?
Photo was taken 2½ months ago, before it came out.
sumi - Aug 20, 2010 10:40:41 am PDT #12134 of 28342
Art Crawl!!!
My books, cds, etc are currently in no order. It's sad. I used to have them alphabetized in each shelf and had kind of a rough sort of which book went in which shelf - generally by size. I have a couple of shelves that can only work with mass market paperbacks and some books that are tall enough, etc that they can only nr placed on particular shelves. But, currently, it's complete book anarchy.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2010 10:42:34 am PDT #12135 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Photo was taken 2½ months ago, before it came out.
Explanation accepted.
-t - Aug 20, 2010 10:45:20 am PDT #12136 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What I like to do is fiction by author and non-fiction by broad topic (I like to have religion and physics close together, for example), but I have been buying books a lot more rapidly than I've been organizing them and the system has totally broken down. So, piles.
Polter-Cow - Aug 20, 2010 10:53:52 am PDT #12137 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh yeah, I have lots of piles right now.
Strega - Aug 20, 2010 10:59:26 am PDT #12138 of 28342
My books are grouped into comics, fiction, and I guess "other" (non-fiction, poetry, anthologies, textbooks), and then they're in order by author/title.
Once upon a time I did organize more by genre or subject, but I had considerably fewer books in those days, and plenty of shelf space. I do still clump all the Sherlockian books together because it seems silly not to, though. And I guess I may do the same with the Faction Paradox books when I finish reading them, actually.
DVDs are broken into movies & TV shows, mostly for space reasons, and then sorted by title. With the CDs I still have, I think soundtracks & anything with multiple artists is on one shelf by title; everything else is artist/title.
Beverly - Aug 20, 2010 11:02:41 am PDT #12139 of 28342
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm with Scola--everything by height. In fact, we're finalizing plans for the wall o'shelves in the living room, according to however many of whichever height, plus dvds. the ultimate goal? Everything out of boxes and on shelves all at the same time. We've never managed it before.
We do try to roughly group by subject (kids' books, fiction, photography, etc.), but height is the primary factor.