NP - How do you sort your books?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Colors are very important to me. That's why it always takes so long to 
reorganize. Actually you have to live surrounded by your books to 
recognize the fitting patterns.

On 12.08.2012 11:19, Kai Frederik Lorentzen 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 
>> <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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