As a few others have said, alphabetically within categories. But I make exceptions for really tall books, which are generally treated as a category unto themselves, because if I tried to shelve them in with all the others it would (a) look funny, and (b) mean I would be able to fit fewer shelves on any given set of side supports, because they'd all have to be tall enough for the tallest books. So in practice I usually have one tall shelf at the bottom of any given bookcase (where the weight gives it extra stability, and then everything else is sorted first by category and then by author within each category.
Except that right now only parts of my shelves are organized that way. Somehow in this particular apartment I never quite finished the book organization. Hopefully I will remedy that with my next one.
Some of my huge books can't be put on a bottom shelf either because they're expensive art books and I don't want cat fur all over them. Ugh. What to do, what to do?
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Date: 2012-01-11 05:21 pm (UTC)Except that right now only parts of my shelves are organized that way. Somehow in this particular apartment I never quite finished the book organization. Hopefully I will remedy that with my next one.
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Date: 2012-01-11 10:02 pm (UTC)