So I’m moving on Tuesday and while I was packing my books I realized that I’ve never organized the books on my bookshelves. I kind of haphazardly lump books together my author sometimes, but more often than not they’re in total disarray. I thought it might be time for a change. How do you guys organize yours? By author? Genre? Color?

So I’m moving on Tuesday and while I was packing my books I realized that I’ve never organized the books on my bookshelves. I kind of haphazardly lump books together my author sometimes, but more often than not they’re in total disarray. I thought it might be time for a change.

How do you guys organize yours? By author? Genre? Color?

Posted on August 22, 2010 at 11:27am with 33 notes

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  1. merdetete reblogged this from balltillifall
  2. seaofstatic answered: hardcover v paperback, size then genre
  3. peterwknox answered: Author. I’m moving this Saturday and books make up a majority of what I have to transfer.
  4. ladandy answered: By finished. I put the one that I just read, last. And at the end of the book I mark the date i finished it. So i would remember the order.
  5. booksarebetterthanboys answered: I organize by how much I like them. Favorite books go on the top shelf.
  6. palonka answered: genre then size
  7. enajyentihw answered: book height
  8. ppepperr answered: colour! it looks the best.
  9. robosheep answered: by snobbery. Difficult books in the front and center, guilty pleasures in the bottom corners.
  10. semantic-romantics answered: I used to arrange mine by subject, but now I shelve them by color… They just look so nice that way!
  11. distantheartbeats answered: My random genre allocation, then author, book size, and colour.
  12. -pacifictime answered: I organize by favourites. I love them all, but some I love a bit more, so they are higher on the shelf.
  13. sallypants answered: by genre (literature, poetry, non fic - with philosophy in its own section) then author. Cookbooks are also separated
  14. stephanie-lean-stephanie answered: non-fiction/fiction then dewey decimal system or by author. Biographies by subject matter.
  15. shecallsmeartemis answered: Author and then size :)
  16. jamesnord answered: color for me
  17. murmurandshout answered: Usually by broad genre (fiction, nonfiction by subcategory, comics, poetry, etc), then by author. But every time I move, I do it differently.
  18. annapocalypse answered: Genre first and then by author within each genre.
  19. chaplinnn answered: I organize mine by color!
  20. jasonsmithtx answered: Genre AND Author. You wouldn’t believe how often people will comment on it.
  21. cubicleparty answered: Genre first, then author as a subset.
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