NP - How do you sort your books?

[Monte Davis]

Similar principles (OK, habits) at work here: a few hundred in the (small)
house at any one time, exchanged back and forth with 3-4000 shelved in the
(large) storage shed out back. For the latter: prose fiction by author,
poetry & drama ditto in their own groups, non-fiction by categories as few
and broad as possible. Whenever they proliferate beyond history, mythology,
current affairs, natural sciences, social sciences, and
criticism/belles-lettres, I spend more time puzzling where a new book
belongs (or where I thought an old one belonged many years ago) than I would
searching for it.


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Subject: Re: NP - How do you sort your books?

Because I sometimes actually have to go and hunt for a book,  and because I
have several thousand books,  I try to keep my organization simple and
useful.   I have three rooms of books - one room for fiction, , one for
non-fiction and one for both but these are newer.   Fiction is organized
alphabetically by author,  non-fiction by subject-matter.   Each room has
its own set of books and is arranged separately - the books in one room go
from A-Z and in the next room from A-Z - no split in the middle - the M - R
section is not in a separate room.  (heh) .  Non-fiction is by
subject-matter - old history is in one room and the rest is in the shared
room for newer books.  Books get rotated into the old book rooms (stacks?)
as the new book room (office/den?) fills up (over and over