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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."

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Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 11:29:49 am PDT #23240 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

So do y'all shelve Young Adult books together or by category? I've been putting them with children's books, but the children's book shelves are overloaded, and books like Code Name Verity seem more comfortable with the historical fiction. But then there are Madeleine L'Engle's books, which are all interlinked, though some are SF, some are non-SF young adult and some are adult.

I'm so confused. Also, I barely have the spoons to do the stuff I have to do, and suddenly rearranging the bookshelves seems like a fine idea. What are you thinking, brain?

Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2015 11:47:03 am PDT #23241 of 28333
brillig

All fiction by author, if I have the room. Non-fiction by category.

Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 11:50:36 am PDT #23242 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

It would be easier if I had a long run of identical bookshelves, like a library. What I have is different bookshelves with different shelf heights.

Sue - Apr 20, 2015 12:04:04 pm PDT #23243 of 28333
hip deep in pie

Uh, I shelve by colour.

Sue - Apr 20, 2015 12:04:31 pm PDT #23244 of 28333
hip deep in pie

And a little bit by publisher.

-t - Apr 20, 2015 12:10:33 pm PDT #23245 of 28333
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

All my books are currently in boxes or stacks on the floor. If they are on shelves it is pure happenstance where they might be.

Well, not quite all, but the vast majority. I can't pretend to have a system in place, even a theoretical system.

meara - Apr 20, 2015 12:27:53 pm PDT #23246 of 28333

I used to shelve by science-fiction-y (including young adult), non fiction, children's, and then an unorganized pile of romance and thriller. These days they are all electronic, so I can sort them however (i admit, I dislike, especially on the kindle. I can't find a way I like)

Ginger - Apr 20, 2015 2:01:56 pm PDT #23247 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

One reason why I'm pondering my shelves is that I'm trying to get rid of books, but I have so many books piled on the edges of shelves and in odd places that I don't know what I have.

Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 20, 2015 2:11:02 pm PDT #23248 of 28333
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I tend to shelve by subject matter, with Science Fiction and Fantasy shelved by author within that. However, the order of hardback subject areas gets shuffled around depending on which books are the heaviest/tallest, and thus should go on the outer edges of the shelves so I can fit smaller books horizontally across them.

While I think it would look neat to shelve by spine color, I would never again be able to find anything to reread if I did that.

sj - Apr 20, 2015 2:20:20 pm PDT #23249 of 28333
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Right now I have many of my YA books in the bookshelf that is in what will be the baby's room along with other children books. However, I'm probably going to move them to make room for more books for ltc. Where I'm going to move them, I don't know. All of my bookshelves are maximized and I still have quite a few books in boxes, including several boxes of writing books from a bookshelf I had to take down to make room for the new china cabinet.

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