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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:33 PM Original message |
How do you organize your library? |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. by subject |
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enigmatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. By subject |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. alphabetical... by author. they are all mine. i know them all. i go to last name. nt |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:55 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. gotta kinda change answer. i have an area just for the fiction. then i have other shelves, other |
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Doc_Technical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. Nietzsche says, |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
6. By subject |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
7. By subject and size - solely in an effort to optimize shelf space |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. How many field guides do you have? |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. only a couple |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. About seven dozen |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I haven't heard anything about it |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. This year I would have watched a birding show since the live one hadn't started |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. thanks everyone |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
9. Subject, then either alphabetical or region |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. Subject. FDR/ER/Ickes/ NewDeal/RussianEcon/ USN/Submarines/ Film/Tracy/hepburn...etc. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. By hair color |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. i do it by genre, then author within each genre |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. by subject matter, sometimes by author name, sometimes by ...size |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. The National Library of Peru used to sort books by the color of the binding |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I tried that once |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Yes, that is why I have special paperback book size shelves |
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Capn Sunshine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
20. Dewey Decimal system |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Mine are boxed by subject and rarity. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
23. I just explain to the books the benefits of being in a union. |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
25. Subject |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. Stelae by empire, scrolls by scribe's name, codices by binder's name. |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
27. Organize? |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
28. I have separated my nonfiction and fiction onto separate bookcases. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
29. Dewey Decimal |
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Pendrench (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
30. Are you familiar with Librarything.com? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
32. Subject, THEN alpha by author, if fiction; chrono, if history; etc. |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. By age. |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
34. if you have plenty of bookshelves |
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Rising Phoenix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-12-09 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
35. who had something so vile to say about organizing books that it got deleted |
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