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jackI've been cataloguing my books. I'm about half way through, and have shelved:
~100 very good books, on bookcase #1.
~150 good books, temporarily boxed while waiting for a final count.
~75 books I don't really care about, but found interesting enough to keep.
~25 books I haven't read.
3 books I don't want at all. (1 Jenny Colgan, blame Jane, 1 random horror, 1 random thriller.)
4 books I don't own. (Same Jenny Colgan, 1 Umberto Eco long-term loaned from Grandfather, Tristan Shandy from Katherine, Mathematics of Financial Derivatives from Justin.)
10 not fiction and poetry, not including textbooks which are packed with notes.
Doubling gives about 700 total, about 500 which it would be nice to display. I have just about that much space if I set up the new bookcase and empty the oldest one.
I've been sorting books into very good and good, in my opinion, and within that shelved by author. I've kept some authors together, when I've generally liked or not been too bothered about them, but split up some's books when some I've really liked and some I really haven't.
Fortunately, I've no co-authored books where I can't decide where to put it. I've never liked an Pournelle or Barnes, so all those go under Niven. Good Omens goes under Pratchett because I've only got Neverwhere of Gaimen's.
I'm slightly scared there's so many, though nothing to how many some friends have. And pleased by how few I don't want.
I should have done more cleaning instead, but I'm pleased I did this. Maybe next I'll sort through the drawers of useless tat and get everything labeled up! :)
How does everyone else sort?
~100 very good books, on bookcase #1.
~150 good books, temporarily boxed while waiting for a final count.
~75 books I don't really care about, but found interesting enough to keep.
~25 books I haven't read.
3 books I don't want at all. (1 Jenny Colgan, blame Jane, 1 random horror, 1 random thriller.)
4 books I don't own. (Same Jenny Colgan, 1 Umberto Eco long-term loaned from Grandfather, Tristan Shandy from Katherine, Mathematics of Financial Derivatives from Justin.)
10 not fiction and poetry, not including textbooks which are packed with notes.
Doubling gives about 700 total, about 500 which it would be nice to display. I have just about that much space if I set up the new bookcase and empty the oldest one.
I've been sorting books into very good and good, in my opinion, and within that shelved by author. I've kept some authors together, when I've generally liked or not been too bothered about them, but split up some's books when some I've really liked and some I really haven't.
Fortunately, I've no co-authored books where I can't decide where to put it. I've never liked an Pournelle or Barnes, so all those go under Niven. Good Omens goes under Pratchett because I've only got Neverwhere of Gaimen's.
I'm slightly scared there's so many, though nothing to how many some friends have. And pleased by how few I don't want.
I should have done more cleaning instead, but I'm pleased I did this. Maybe next I'll sort through the drawers of useless tat and get everything labeled up! :)
How does everyone else sort?
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Date: 2006-04-11 01:13 pm (UTC)I sort books into 'non-fiction', 'fiction-sf&f' and 'fiction-other'. I sort 'non-fiction' by topic and then alphabetically by author. I sort both sorts of fiction (seperately) by size (large or small) and the alphabetically by author. Most 'small' are double stacked on the book case.
Incidentally, breaking my own rules, my hardback (large) Prattchet is followed by Good Omens (small, oops) which is then followed by my (large) Gaiman books (Graphic Novels and hardbacks, I have no Gaiman paperbacks) allthough the paperback (small) Prattchet is sorted elsewhere because that shelf is Too Small. Largely it is organised this way because the only other sf&f 'large' books I own and keep in Essex are RJ and Years of Rice And Salt which fit on the end of that shelf nicely.
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Date: 2006-04-11 04:08 pm (UTC)Incidentally, breaking my own rules
I suppose in addition to the rules I mention, I also sort by size, and various sorts of books, genre and age I read it, and where it used to live on previous bookcases, and occasionally let some rules override the normal ones :)
Fortunately I have few enough that I don't have many awkward cases, if I were a library or a mark, I'd have to have a definite system for books of several authors, or books I really want next to other books, but aren't there alphabetically.