Do you put your books in order ..........
Posted 06-17-2017 at 07:57 AM by TamaraSavannah
............. and if so, how?
Say, the paperbacks.
Me, somewhat, but they are going to end up in patches of this order or that.
Patches of Doctor Who, of Star Wars, of Bond, of analogies (MagiCats! Dragons! Unicorns!, etc), Ballintine war history, etc.
And then, of authors such as Cook, Crichton, Asimov, Caiden, and the like.
Then, perhaps general subjecting such as mystery, war, sci-fi, maybe epic novels and such (ie, like The Name of the Rose)
And finally, the stuff that fits into no categories such as Color of Darkness, Amanda in Germany, Horn of Africa, Lisa: Bright and Dark, and things like. No category, perhaps it does have one but you don't want to admit it, or unknown category till you read it.
Sounds like a good system, yes? Especially for someone who has OODLES & OODLES of paperbacks?
There's just one catch.....not all paperbacks are the same size.
I found that when I was unpacking the first boxes and trying to maximize my use of space that often the standard paperback may differ from one another by about a half in or so in height. So on the small shelf are books of different authors, different subjects, the flip identification (ie, aircraft recognition) type, and so forth. Perhaps they could go elsewhere, but their ordering is decided by size.
AT LEAST, that is the plan but for right now, they are just put in order by size. As such, I only know where something is by what I can see on the spine.....if it isn't hidden by boxes and furniture.
As I was trying to fall asleep last night, I wished I had "Han Solo at Star's End" to review and up to about 2 minutes ago, didn't know where it was (just spotted it on a high shelf which, last night, would have posed another problem. It needs the 12 foot ladder to get to it and that ladder is in the bedroom when I was putting the stuffed animals up. One probably should not be moving a 12 foot ladder around the house when they are in a sleep shirt). Ideally, all the 1st trilogy & the like or at least the Corporate Sector ones should be grouped together, ...... but not yet.
No, as they came out of the box, they were sized and shelved like that. The small shelf gets decided by two functions. First, there is are shelves on the case that are not moveable, such as the bottom, the middle, and the top. Secondly, as shelves are moved to utilize space, it will eventually work out that there is a shelf of minimum space. Sometimes this works out okay like on the bolted galvanized steel shelves for the DVDs (in a different library). Six or seven shelves result as tall enough for DVDs but there ends up one very short shelf (ie, 6 hole spacing to 4 hole spacing); that shelf I use for CD storage. Or it works okay for the shorter paperbacks.
There are two problems with it working out "ideally". First of all, the boxes to be unpacked don't come in perfectly size order and are not packed the same either. Secondly, hard backs are even worse in being universal in size. So I have a Texas Civil War history next to North American archaeology next to a Dale Brown fiction with one on Kim Philby (Cold War) and the war on terror.
SIGH.......maybe I'll get it figured out someday.
WHAT'S YOUR SYSTEM?
(and if you say read and get rid of, there is a shelf for that, too! Ie, that shelf that is waiting for a cause to be bagged and donated)
Say, the paperbacks.
Me, somewhat, but they are going to end up in patches of this order or that.
Patches of Doctor Who, of Star Wars, of Bond, of analogies (MagiCats! Dragons! Unicorns!, etc), Ballintine war history, etc.
And then, of authors such as Cook, Crichton, Asimov, Caiden, and the like.
Then, perhaps general subjecting such as mystery, war, sci-fi, maybe epic novels and such (ie, like The Name of the Rose)
And finally, the stuff that fits into no categories such as Color of Darkness, Amanda in Germany, Horn of Africa, Lisa: Bright and Dark, and things like. No category, perhaps it does have one but you don't want to admit it, or unknown category till you read it.
Sounds like a good system, yes? Especially for someone who has OODLES & OODLES of paperbacks?
There's just one catch.....not all paperbacks are the same size.
I found that when I was unpacking the first boxes and trying to maximize my use of space that often the standard paperback may differ from one another by about a half in or so in height. So on the small shelf are books of different authors, different subjects, the flip identification (ie, aircraft recognition) type, and so forth. Perhaps they could go elsewhere, but their ordering is decided by size.
AT LEAST, that is the plan but for right now, they are just put in order by size. As such, I only know where something is by what I can see on the spine.....if it isn't hidden by boxes and furniture.
As I was trying to fall asleep last night, I wished I had "Han Solo at Star's End" to review and up to about 2 minutes ago, didn't know where it was (just spotted it on a high shelf which, last night, would have posed another problem. It needs the 12 foot ladder to get to it and that ladder is in the bedroom when I was putting the stuffed animals up. One probably should not be moving a 12 foot ladder around the house when they are in a sleep shirt). Ideally, all the 1st trilogy & the like or at least the Corporate Sector ones should be grouped together, ...... but not yet.
No, as they came out of the box, they were sized and shelved like that. The small shelf gets decided by two functions. First, there is are shelves on the case that are not moveable, such as the bottom, the middle, and the top. Secondly, as shelves are moved to utilize space, it will eventually work out that there is a shelf of minimum space. Sometimes this works out okay like on the bolted galvanized steel shelves for the DVDs (in a different library). Six or seven shelves result as tall enough for DVDs but there ends up one very short shelf (ie, 6 hole spacing to 4 hole spacing); that shelf I use for CD storage. Or it works okay for the shorter paperbacks.
There are two problems with it working out "ideally". First of all, the boxes to be unpacked don't come in perfectly size order and are not packed the same either. Secondly, hard backs are even worse in being universal in size. So I have a Texas Civil War history next to North American archaeology next to a Dale Brown fiction with one on Kim Philby (Cold War) and the war on terror.
SIGH.......maybe I'll get it figured out someday.
WHAT'S YOUR SYSTEM?
(and if you say read and get rid of, there is a shelf for that, too! Ie, that shelf that is waiting for a cause to be bagged and donated)
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