NP - How do you sort your books?

[Prashant Kumar]

Exactly what I'm trying to mitigate against.

I over-think because I am. The spreadsheet thing is fun for me. I want to
write some code on top of the database which will let me do statistics:
e.g. calculate the net worth of the collection using online data. Then I
can cycle out the crapper stuff, actually find things etc. Alls I have to
do is enter the data when I get a book. Of course, this is complicated by
age, and so I'll have to work in real terms when calculating value...like I
said, fun!

P.

On 13 August 2012 01:09, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Bekah
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:16 AM
> To: Kai Frederik Lorentzen
> Cc: pynchon -l
> 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
>
>
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