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My bookshelves are finally organized! They've been regurgitating books all over the house and it was really getting out of hand. Finally: all the books are sorted by type (art books, writing books, Alaska reference books, paperback series, graphic novels, etc) and stored in the shelves rather than reclining on flat surfaces throughout the house, including the floor. The "books to read" are now stored in a box, to be sorted into their appropriate shelf upon reading (or put into the box to take to the used bookstore for trade-in credit).
This is what my to-read pile looked like before I put it in the box. Plus a shot of the bookshelves themselves, in case anyone else is like me, and the first thing you do when you go over to a person's house is look at their bookshelves:
(The black book at the top of the pile that looks like the Metallica black album is actually Stephen King's "Carrie". Stephen King is one of a handful of absurdly prolific writers, also including Terry Pratchett and Robert Heinlein, whose books I am determined to read down to the very last one. Or at least start all of them, since I think Heinlein and King write approximately one goddawful book for every brilliant one.)
And the (annotated) bookshelves. The books are actually stacked two (for the hardbacks) and three (for the paperbacks) layers deep. I estimated I've got about a thousand books on there ... which is a LOT less than I would have had if I hadn't moved across the country twice in the last eight years. I believe the word you're looking for is "bibliophilia".
This is what my to-read pile looked like before I put it in the box. Plus a shot of the bookshelves themselves, in case anyone else is like me, and the first thing you do when you go over to a person's house is look at their bookshelves:
(The black book at the top of the pile that looks like the Metallica black album is actually Stephen King's "Carrie". Stephen King is one of a handful of absurdly prolific writers, also including Terry Pratchett and Robert Heinlein, whose books I am determined to read down to the very last one. Or at least start all of them, since I think Heinlein and King write approximately one goddawful book for every brilliant one.)
And the (annotated) bookshelves. The books are actually stacked two (for the hardbacks) and three (for the paperbacks) layers deep. I estimated I've got about a thousand books on there ... which is a LOT less than I would have had if I hadn't moved across the country twice in the last eight years. I believe the word you're looking for is "bibliophilia".
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And my books "cycle" depending on my projects. Right now, most of my anthropology books are tucked away in the back of the shelves, while my fiction-writing books (Bartlett's Quotations, a bunch of how-to books on writing SF, and such) are in the front. Two years ago, I was working on world-building a fantasy world so I needed all the anthro books where I could get to them.
[I also have that problem: buying books on amazon dot com which I later find that I ALREADY HAVE, tucked away behind something else on a shelf!]/i>
I know! That was one reason why I wanted to organize; I kept finding duplicates as I went through my books! Plus, I'd feel like I had nothing to read so I'd go back to Amazon, even though I had a bunch of books I hadn't read that were all mixed in with the ones I had read.
Books organization....
Love, mxm
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