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[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Mine are loosely organized by interest and often internally by author, albeit not alphabetically. For example, all my old school textbooks and monographs are together by the classes I read them for. Thus, my environmental history class books are all together, but internally there is no system except aesthetic whim. All my Orwell books are together next to my Steinbeck books because they both wrote fiction during the same period. Huxley's Brave New World is next to Orwell's 1984 because it seems right. My Introducing _______ and ________ for Beginners books are all together. My Cartoon History of the Universe books bridge the graphic novel and history sections. Within this flexible system, I also consider color and height. My system is essentially "That seems right. I'll remember that's there."

[sabotabby]

I am at the point where I have too many books to remember my sorting system or where I put them. And the art books and comics are a nightmare.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I have a separate shelf for the big art books, just as public libraries have their special over-sized book sections. That shelving unit has no internal system. It's just where ever things will fit. But if a particular publisher has certain tendencies, the illusion of a system emerges because those books fit together better.