NP - How do you sort your books?

[John Bailey]

Walter Benjamin's thoughts on unpacking his book crates during a move
might be relevant here.

http://townsendlab.berkeley.edu/sites/all/files/Benjamin%20Unpacking%20My%20Library.pdf

"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion
borders on the chaos of memories."

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On 12.08.2012 11:19, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
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> 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.
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> On 12.08.2012 10:21, Kris Williams wrote:
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> 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...
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> On Aug 12, 2012 12:34 AM, "Prashant Kumar" <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I've had to reorganise my collection recently and was idly wondering how
>> plisters do it (if at all), and why?
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>> P.
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