NP - How do you sort your books?

[Prashant Kumar]

I ask because I'm in the middle of a move.

Kai, this resonates.

At the moment our book collection is sitting uncomfortably: Ice T's "The
Ice Opinion" is sandwiched between Gleick's Feynman bio "Genius" and the
same's bio of Newton. Also Erich von Daniken is sitting next to William
Shirer.

Something must be done.

P.

On 12 August 2012 19:19, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>wrote:

>
> 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>
> 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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