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.

The short shelves are very appealing, but it looks all shiny and newfangled compared to anything in my apartment.

Then you need all new stuff!

magazine holder are for comics

essays, mixed author shortstories, children's books and humor are in the guest bedroom.

Tech and reference are in the office.

the only thing that is wrong like a wrong thing is the LPs in the office. but they need a spot in LRoom.

TBR books 150- 180 piled haphazardly on my shelves next to the bed

Then you need all new stuff!

Heh. No, I think I've hit my stride with the old dark wood. Love. This is going to be my next book support purchase, I think.

magazine holder are for comics

Way too many comics for that.

My books are reasonably haphazard, and not just because I'm short a bookshelf. Most of the fiction goes in the living room, mixed in with the non-fiction (which predominates by far), stored by author and series. The non-fiction is loosely thematically arranged--weapons here, martial arts there, computer books here. But I have books of all those sorts in the bedroom too.

Ooh, thanks for the link ita, because I'm looking for something like this [link] that was pictured on the same page.