Hee. I go alpha by author & then chronologically regardless of its progressive nature or lack thereof. For fiction. By topic for non-fiction. Although, I have a ton of books I bought from library cast-off sales, so I keep threatening to go Dewey.

But this move, the SO set up the shelves for me, and I so deeply appreciate his work that I have yet to change his ordering. But I have to at some point, because he left no room for expansion. And I must have expansion.

My sister in Sherlockiana! Nothing makes me happer than to have my two-volume Annotated Holmes next to the books written by modern authors.

Heh. My Baring-Gould is in kind of sad shape. But I got it cheap at some huge used book sale in Chicago, so it's not my fault. Well, not entirely.

Hey, you might know -- is the old HBO production of "Sherlock Holmes" on DVD anywhere? I search for it every so often, but I don't have the patience to dig through 50 pages of results.

I had comics separated until the last reorganization, but then I merged them in with everything else because that was leading to all kinds of silliness, too.

I covet these shelves. They're narrow and they're modular and they're expensive, naturally, but I want them so much. So much!

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These are a nice alternative, Strega.

Emmett's mom has the ones Aimée linked to -- I've never liked Ikea much before, but that unit is incredibly sturdy and holds her metric assload of books (and photos and other tchotchkes) very nicely.

I'm still in love with Monstro, though.

You can have it.

The man comes with, though.

Hmmm. The apartment's kind of crowded, but another pair of hands to help with diaper-changing would be nice. Think he'd be willing to sleep in a pup tent in the backyard? We'll give him extra blankets and a bottle of booze to keep him warm.

I mainly order by topic, then author. But I have 3 cases I haven't read (we're talking 150+ books, people.I WANT to read them. Just have to catch the mood.) I got behind, those are haphazard. When I catch up, I'll likely reshelve. ( when in the zone, I'm pretty much 1 book/day + whatever book I'm reading over the week.)

The romance novels? I'm not talking about the bags and bags and bags I need to take to Goodwill or the used book store.

Oh, thanks for the tip! But I think that's actually deeper than the bookcases I have now -- I should have been more clear; the narrowness is a big part of the appeal with the Smartshelves, because I'm basically lining two walls of a rather small room with them.

I'm short a bookshelf, easy. My main problem is comic storage. Cannot work out how.

He probably wouldn't mind that at all, JZ.

ita, would the shelf I linked to above help? Maybe it could be solely comic storage. I assume you do the cardboard thingie and bag. You could maybe put the comics in handy dandy baskets. Almost like drawers. With little labels like:

X-Men 1-eleventy billion

X-Men eleventy-biilion and 1 - twenty brazillion.

Or something.