NP - How do you sort your books?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Alphabetically? Hardly! I create nests along genre, color, nationality 
etc. To prevent this from becoming too sterile I place a good deal of 
book completely illogical and add some more or less meaningful 
installations  like, for instance, putting Ratzinger's book on Christian 
mysticism ("Schauen auf den Durchbohrten") in between an introduction to 
Voodoo and a photography book by Nobuyoshi Araki. One effect of this 
practice is that I fear removals (it always takes half a year to 
reorganize the library). Another one that my wife seldom finds a book 
without asking me. But that's OK: I need my personally designed library 
order to feel - at least a little bit - at home in this world.

On 12.08.2012 10:21, Kris Williams wrote:
>
> I start with genre, then alphabetically, then they get re-read, then I 
> cross reference, after that I spill wine on some pages...next thing 
> you know, Hemingway is sleeping with Platt, and Poe watches through a 
> window.  Then I start over with genre...sigh...
>
> On Aug 12, 2012 12:34 AM, "Prashant Kumar" 
> <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com <mailto:siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I've had to reorganise my collection recently and was idly
>     wondering how plisters do it (if at all), and why?
>
>     P.
>

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