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11-29-2006, 07:41 PM
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Addict
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Female
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How should I arrange the books on my new bookshelf?
Yes, this post is slightly pedantic and stupid, but it is very important.
I am rearranging my room to suit my new-finished-high-school persona and part of that includes a new bigger bookshelf 
So...how should I arrange the books?
Should I arrange them in genres? (like short story anthologies, crime, nonfiction...)
Should I arrange it alphabetically?
Should I arrange them by books I have read and books I havent read?
Should I arrange them by size and colour?
So many options!
opinions?
Lani
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11-29-2006, 07:46 PM
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pliable
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Juneau, Alaska
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I have an idea: don't arrange them at all. It'll suit your personality better.
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11-29-2006, 08:07 PM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Mar 2006
Gender: Male
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I arrange my books by genre then in alphabetical order.
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11-29-2006, 08:21 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: West Virginia, USA
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I put my books on the shelf randomly.
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11-29-2006, 10:09 PM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Somewhere
Gender: Female
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By size and type of book, then by author, then by order in the series is how I arrange mine.
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11-29-2006, 10:22 PM
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Writer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Gender: Female
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My basement is my bookshelf.
This whole.. organization thing... I'm not comprehending.
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11-29-2006, 10:43 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Montana
Gender: Male
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Two works my friend. Size matters. I have all my hardcovers organized my biggest to smallest, then the paperbacks follow the hardcovers biggest to smallest.
Ty
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11-30-2006, 04:44 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne Australia
Gender: Female
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Mine are in no order. When I moved back home a month ago, I just threw all my books on the shelf. Most aren't even standing upright.
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11-30-2006, 07:01 AM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Nov 2006
Gender: Male
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At least you didn't have the option to burn them  Uh sorry, just being creative  destructive. Think of it though - ORGANIZED TO BURN! |
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11-30-2006, 07:03 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: That red dot on the map
Gender: Female
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Order them by disorder. ^^
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11-30-2006, 07:19 AM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
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For me, accessibility is most important. Those books which are used most often are at eye level or at the top of my bookshelves, such as reference books and favourite authors. The bottom shelves are reserved for dust-gathering volumes which are seldom, if ever read.
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11-30-2006, 11:05 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 252
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and the irish man says this with a bad stereotypical australian accent...
get a beer out of de fridge eh? put de books in a cannon yeh? aim de bitch at de book shelf! and let god decide!
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER
Last edited by Der_Parvenu_Meister : 11-30-2006 at 04:57 PM.
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