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So, a few things prompted this thread.  First,  I'm moving again.  I'd rather not elaborate but I've talked about it in other threads here at the Kin.  In every move I've ever made, I try to organize my humble library into something that resembles an ordered structure and, well, it's good to have them organized where they can lounge like beloved creatures in the morning sun.  It's also organizing month here at the Kin, so I thought, why not?  This is all your fault, Lor.
 
As I get them boxed, I'm getting them categorized and inventoried.  I lost three boxes of books by accident a few months ago - they were confused with a pile of discards meant for the thrift store.  It wasn't that big of a deal in hindsight.  There were four or five titles in there that I absolutely wanted to save but the rest, I guess, were bound for the thrift shop anyway.  I just hated having that choice made for me.
 
I won't be doing this all at once, so I'll post a new list as I get them boxed.
 
Let us begin.  *blows dust off a creaky book*
 
Medieval and Renaissance Lit
 

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I'll resume this later with Early Modern and Shakespeare and zoom into, um... more books, I guess.

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Early Modern (I guess this is a catch-all category for everything after Malory that isn't Shakespeare.)

 

 

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Shakespeare

 

 

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Religion - I'm not much of anything but you can see where my preferences lie.  I grew up with some pretty bizarro theology (Reformed Christian Calvinism) and it's taken quite a long time to unscramble my head.

 

 

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Philosophy - in another life which seems very far away, I was a philosophy major in a sleepy farm town.

 

 

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I think I'm done for the night.

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So, you're organizing them by topic in the boxes. Is that how they'll go onto your shelves, too? I organize by what I'm into, do I guess that is sorta topic-based. I reorganize my shelves about once a year, though. ;-)

 

And I'll happily take that blame, dude! Organize away!

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Awesome books. I know a kid named "Bede." I love to read about religion & history.

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Enlightenment and Modern Philosophy

 

 

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About half our books are packed away now, we simply don't have the shelf space to keep all up, so what's up now is favourite books that I want easily accessible. I've got three very small (barely a meter and a half tall) bookscases. So right now, they're grouped a bit randomly. One shelf is cookbooks and designbooks and coffeetable-type books, two are graphic novels and comic books, and the rest are sorted either in what belong together genre-wise (one shelf for more YA-type books, one for more epic fantasy, WoT takes up an entire shelf, and the last one is a bit of everything.) We also store all our boardgames in the bookshelf, so... That takes up an entire shelf too.

 

Eventually, when we get enough space, I'll probably just sort them alphabetically. Although that bothers me a bit too; I like my books to be neat, so it really bothers me when my books are differently sized within the same series, especially if the earlier books are smaller than the newer (or a book or two in the middle is differently sized. It's ok if the first one is biggest and they then get smaller). This will lead to me buying a boxed set of them eventually and getting rid of the mismatched sizes...

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You are a far better person then I am. All my books are all over the place stacked on top of each other etc. I did try and get them in order once and then bought a bunch more books and that didn't work out. LOL 

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My sister found a site:

Libib.com

 

It allows you to make a catalog of your books with a smartphone. Or you can buy a UPC scanner and it will record them. 

 

 

I haven't tried it yet. 

 

I organize by weird classifications known only to me and my husband. 
 

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I feel ya with the weird system only you and your hubs know, Moon. We have it that way with DVD's. It's an extremely logical system for us. Others wonder why Harry Potter, Tangled and Marie Antoinette are on the same shelf XD

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Omnibuses 

 

If I really like a series, I get the omnibus.  Thankfully, there is no WoT omnibus.  My poor back couldn't handle the strain.

 

 

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Poetry

 

This section really needs the most work.  I'm a huge fan of the American Imagists and you'll see that influence in my own work but I like anything that's a.) readable and b.) not a vanity printing.  Publishers will often combine pamphlets into an anthology, so any such work will just say Selected by So-and-So unless it has another title.

 

 

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