#book organization

[neonwizardheehee]

Reblog for a larger sample size :3

(I am fascinated bc ppl have so many different ways for this and I'm curious!!! They all make so much sense tho which makes the whole thing even more interesting :DD)

[mangotalkies]

organised all my books today - a day well spent

[midnightlibrarymouse]

Alright Booklr, I'm moving soon and I need your help deciding...

Thank you so much for your help!

(please reblog for bigger sample size)

[augieinthemachine]

This is my shelf of books that i bought this month. There's no other connection other than they were all bought this month. Once I get another proper bookshelf I'm going to turn this into my tbr shelf so that I don't have to constantly worry about finding something to read.

[highladyluck]

None of the book organization polls I have seen are adequate, so I made this one. I look forward to your commentary.

[laziestgirlintown]

#me

[libertyreads]

Still trying to figure out the best way to sort my books. This is an alphabetical shelf of completed series

[thunderous-aesthetics]

It’s time to unlearn how to hate your body.

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[bashsbooks]

Controversial Bookshelf Organization

I have seen many discussions about the best ways to organize a bookshelf: whether it is better to organize by author or title, to ignore "the" or not when shelving by title, to shelf more broadly by genre, to create an aesthetic when shelving by book color, shape, or format.

I do not do any of these. My bookshelf has five tiers. Each tier is its own category of book.

From top to bottom:

Most important books. Most of these are entire series, but I have one or two singles. They are not my favorite books per se - one of them, for example, was the first Christmas gift I got from my long-time partner. The main series (Skulduggery Pleasant) that takes up the shelf gave me 10-year long brainrot but I wouldn't call it my favorite series or recommend it to most people.

Books to-read. This is pretty self-explanatory, I think. This shelf is further categorized by left-to-right placement; those further left are higher on my to-read list.

Academic. I have an English degree; most of them come from that. (Many of them specifically pertain to my undergrad thesis; these ones are altogether.)

Academic Two. I have a Creative Writing minor as well; these ones tend to be the ones I read for my writing courses. Generally that means they're more contemporary whereas the ones on the shelf above tend to be classics. However, there are philosophy books on this one, too. (I also have a collection of very tall cookbooks that are at one end of this shelf, stacked horizontally. They are their own special subcategory.)

Miscellaneous: I organized this shelf purely based on vibes and space. Some of them are my favs, some of them are just shaped weird and would work better on the shelf than in a box, and some of them are waiting patiently in line to be moved up to shelf #2.

[mx-lamour]

I organize my books partly by subject, partly by author, somewhat by aesthetic, a little bit by size, and mostly by intuition. And then sometimes I reorganize them, on a whim. Only I can navigate these shelves. Yes, I do remember where everything is. They're my books.

[cybrrat]

Despite the fact I’m moving in about a month, I am holding back the strongest urge to order more books, despite the fact I haven’t read all of the ones stacked on my nightstand.

[mangotalkies]

I saw your recent post on organizing your books and I was wondering how you sorted them. I'm cleaning out my bookshelf and I can't decide on a way to organize them

i first segregate them into groups of genres i’m more interested in reading right now -

indian history, non-fiction and fiction

asian and african literature

classics

everything else

and then i stack the books / line them up on the shelf in alphabetical order.

hope that helps!

[learning-towrite]

how does one organize the book writing process

[augieinthemachine]

I'm currently sorting my books and both of these stacks are anne mccaffery books.

[angelicgarnet]

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

[rebeccamcullen]

I have a weird personal library organization.

Bookcase 1 it's Shadowhunters/dystopian/other YA/tv tie-in novels

Bookcase 2 is fantasy/books by authors already on this bookcase that don't fit anywhere else (the two non-Twilight SM books+Christopher Paolini's space book).

Bookcase 3 is romance novels I found because of Twilight/the entire catalogue of one of those writers/crime novels that don't fit anywhere else.

Bookcase 4 is romance novels I found independent of Twilight/dvd's.