How do you arrange your books?
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Topic: How do you arrange your books?
Posted By: Vompatti
Subject: How do you arrange your books?
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:35
| I've got my books pretty much in random order, and I'm trying to think of a good way to arrange them. Any ideas? |
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:38
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:42
| Usually in a pile. |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:47
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Genre --> Author (Alphabetically) ------------- 
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:49
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I do the random thing, but they do tend to end up in height order by some magical process I've yet to determine.
However, the arrangement by colour looks interesting - I did that with my CD's for a while until shuffling them along to make way for a new one became tedious. I think I might try that for books so I can have a rainbow of colour across my bookshelves.
Unless they are Mr. Men books of course, then you have to arrange them in the correct order to get the big picture across the spines.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:49
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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! -------------   
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:50
  those are so quintessential to me, buddy, I sticked them high front, to look at them every single moment. -------------
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Geck0 wrote:Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:53
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. -------------
Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb. |
Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 08:55
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I've got mine in genres:
- music
- travel (including space travel)
- comedy
- sports (cricket, football and rally)
- artificial intelligence
- philosophy/religion
- genealogy
- novels
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 09:55
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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. -------------  |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 10:21
I do too!
and it looks more like this:
Music
Geography/geopolotics/History
Pleasures of the earth (other than music that is) >> food and stuff
Bego-French Bande Dessinées (this could be called hard cover comics) Fiction
Travel/Economy/Discovery/Science
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But I supposed the original question was that he talked of fictions (at least I suppose)
As with Cds and Vinyls, I generally avoid the alphabetical orders and it next to impossible anyway due to the incredible change of format. So it mostly random, and I don't even bother with languages.
But when possible I will separate by genres, then chronology, then authors, then chronology inside an author's oeuvre.
But it's safer to answer Random. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 10:23
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my books are in piles that are mixed in with my cd's and they aren't really organized at all
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Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 10:27
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Alphabetical order of writer's names, and if I have more than one book by the same author, I place them in chronological order of release. Same thing with my albums. ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 11:08
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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: http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2005andulactualzahariapag2.jpg">  ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 11:31
Yes, I was mainly talking about fictions. My non-fiction books are in an order similar to yours: Music, movies, literature, philosophy, religion, sciences, computers, etc. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 11:54
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In a pile. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 12:26
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Mine are arranged by how I put them on the shelf when I took them out of the box, after I moved. So basically it is random, but all the works by the author are together. Or by Genre. Or subject. Or color. Anyway it is a random set of random groups. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 16:35
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Random pretty much, half-assedly arranged by my dad by genres.
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Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 17:06
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They are all piled randomly across the floor of my room.
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RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 17:35
| Random |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 17:41
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sort of by genre, but I still have things eventually fall into this entropy depending on what I'm reading (or have read) most recently ------------- 
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 20:13
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I have it in height order to as accurate as possible. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: May 16 2007 at 20:25
| Alpha by author and multiple works by the same author chronologically. Same with by albums. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 18 2007 at 12:08
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Randomly. I referrence them too often, and I have to put different sized books on different shelves anyway due to my bookcases, so organizing them would be a bit too difficult. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: May 20 2007 at 07:47
| Currently, my books are randomly arranged. I'm going to sort them by genre or alphabetically by author one day, though. |
Posted By: Electrick Gypsy
Date Posted: May 22 2007 at 20:55
| In a large pile in the corner of my room. I keep my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy right by my bed though because I'd die if I lost it in the pile |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: May 23 2007 at 22:34
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Alphabetically by authors... it's more easy for me to find what I'm looking for in that way... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 03:49
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Fiction Author A-Z Non-Fiction Read: Genre - Author (A-Z) To Read: Genre - Author (A-Z) |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 04:02
i have been arranging loads of books recently, most of them have been arranged down at the local charity shop 
seriously, do people still get time to read books? with the amount of info on the web i rarely read books these days...and i need the space.
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Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: May 24 2007 at 07:39
| Prefeably by genre, but often I have to arrange them by size, to use the space better. |
Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: May 27 2007 at 19:46
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Arrange them by height!! ------------- 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 27 2007 at 19:53
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arranged by postion on which they land on the floor after being
finished.. my bookshelves are full of prog albums... priorities man.. priorities.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 27 2007 at 19:55
| By my estimation of their burning time. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 27 2007 at 20:01
that's why I told you to not join the College Republicans  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 22:23
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either on the shelf for books
or on the floor nearby
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: May 28 2007 at 22:28
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I don't arrange them; THEY ARRANGE ME!
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: May 29 2007 at 03:20
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Completely randomly for me, but that's mostly due to the fact that I don't own too many books. I read all the time (2-5 books in a month), but most of them come from the library. I would guess I have around 30-50 books in my "collection".
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