How do you arrange your books?

Half-organized, half random.

I gather all the books of an author I have in the library, and arrange them chronologically.
Besides this, the authors aren't arrange in any specific way. Yet there is an outlined "section" of literature, philosophy, physics compendium (my parents are physicists), "children's corner", art and so.

Genre --> Author (Alphabetically)

Edited by Man Erg - May 16 2007 at 08:48

You're lying, Lee!  I saw a book on your coffee table, as well as another out of order in your bookshelf!

Geck0 wrote: You're lying, Lee!  I saw a book on your coffee table, as well as another out of order in your bookshelf!   As for me... not very well... I still can't find two of my Borges' editions!

You saw one bookshelf. Our bedroom has a couple of bookshelves too. I probably only have a 10th of my books on display.The rest are in boxes in the loft.

Mrs Erg (Evelyn) has been using a lot of my books for research into Society in 17th and 18th Century England.
She is not the tidiest of people.

Edited by Man Erg - May 16 2007 at 09:33

I have thousands of books,which is a constant source of irritation to my wife.I like mine to be arranged by genre,then alphabetically withing the genre itself.

my books are in piles that are mixed in with my cd's and they aren't really organized at all

I combine the criteria, so I'd better name the shelves. The most important is the shelf with my essential Romanian authors, the books I can be defined by (poetry, prose, essay). Then there's a shelf for philosophy; another one for aesthetics; one for the literature of the Renaissance (all countries), one for 19th century literature (mostly French), and another one for the literature of the Greek and Roman antiquity. One growing corner is that for classical era literature (centuries 17&18). One more shelf is for Romanian prose - the left half for the pre-war era and the right half for the post-war era. The "professional" shelves count one shelf for Romanian literature on art and a several other with art history & theory books from other cultures. And finally, there's the shelf for art albums.

Unfortunately, now I live far away from the place I lived before and where my library still is.  Here's a picture of me in front of a slice of my bookshelves:

In a pile.

Random pretty much, half-assedly arranged by my dad by genres.

Random