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dolorosa_12Today's Friday open thread brings you a prompt from dhampyresa that resonates deeply with my librarian heart: How do you arrange your books/comics/etc in your home?
It will surprise none of you to know that I arrange my books thematically (according to an idiosynchratic personal idea of what constitutes a common theme: a theme could be 'super formative childhood books that I always reread,' or it could be 'autobiographical nonfiction'), and within each of those themes I arrange the books alphabetically by author surname. I have been doing this since I was a small child, although it was a lot easier to do when I lived in Australia, where my bookshelves were a) a lot more uniform in terms of shelf height, and b) not shared with Matthias.
Our current bookshelves are a mishmash of secondhand items donated to us by various friends and relatives when they were either leaving Cambridge, or trying to get rid of clutter, and as a result that are all manner of shapes and sizes. Some have very low shelves, so my taller books couldn't be stored there. Matthias and I for the most part keep our books separate — sometimes they're on the same bookcase, but never on the same shelf. This is handy, because he has a completely different organisational system!
If we ever move, I want our respective sets of books to be more clearly separated, because I much prefer my organisational scheme. I also live in hope that we'll end up somewhere with many more built-in bookshelves, so that I can finally get my six cases of books shipped from Australia, where they've been sitting in my mum's flat since 2008.
How do you organise your reading material? (Bear in mind, if you say 'by colour', I may have to flee to the hills in horror. /joke)
dhampyresa that resonates deeply with my librarian heart: How do you arrange your books/comics/etc in your home?It will surprise none of you to know that I arrange my books thematically (according to an idiosynchratic personal idea of what constitutes a common theme: a theme could be 'super formative childhood books that I always reread,' or it could be 'autobiographical nonfiction'), and within each of those themes I arrange the books alphabetically by author surname. I have been doing this since I was a small child, although it was a lot easier to do when I lived in Australia, where my bookshelves were a) a lot more uniform in terms of shelf height, and b) not shared with Matthias.
Our current bookshelves are a mishmash of secondhand items donated to us by various friends and relatives when they were either leaving Cambridge, or trying to get rid of clutter, and as a result that are all manner of shapes and sizes. Some have very low shelves, so my taller books couldn't be stored there. Matthias and I for the most part keep our books separate — sometimes they're on the same bookcase, but never on the same shelf. This is handy, because he has a completely different organisational system!
If we ever move, I want our respective sets of books to be more clearly separated, because I much prefer my organisational scheme. I also live in hope that we'll end up somewhere with many more built-in bookshelves, so that I can finally get my six cases of books shipped from Australia, where they've been sitting in my mum's flat since 2008.
How do you organise your reading material? (Bear in mind, if you say 'by colour', I may have to flee to the hills in horror. /joke)