/lit/ - Literature

Dewey decimal.

by author

Categorical works best for me. Maybe if I had lots more books (100+) I'd start organizing alphabetically
>>16218587
Based

>>16218571
by publisher

>>16218571
by colour of the book cover

When I had less than 200 books and sufficient shelf space, I used to do region->alphabetical, but it's grown over 500 so it's all a clusterfuck now.

>>16218571
I face all the spines to the wall

I don't have enough bookshelves for all my books, so theyre kind of just stacked across my room as though I'm some madman

>>16218794
Get them off the floor to avoid possible water damage.

>>16218571

First, practical considerations. The OP implies a personal, home library without heavy-duty industrial shelving. Therefore, put your heaviest books on the bottom, and your lighter books on higher shelves. My bottom shelf is all heavy art books.

Then arrange sections in terms that make sense for each section. alpha author for fiction, chronologically for periodicals, and so forth. Tailor the idea-content of a section to your personal need and use, and adjust as appropriate.

>>16218571
size. I have my books from tallest to shortest

>>16218571
by how much you like the book

>>16218599
I've got around 300 and do them categorically(and within those by sub categories, only organizing alphabetically by authors last name within sub categories).

>>16218571
By colour so it looks pretty

>>16218806
>Get them off the floor to avoid possible water damage.
Not him but I don't have a similar issue however have no concern about water damage

first into fiction/non fiction, then into either topic or country

Mine are (roughly) sorted on purchase/acquisition date, which is fun, because only I know the logic behind my collection. I have about 200-300 books now (never really counted them), but if you'd ask me to get a certain work, I'd know where to look.

For finding a book it won't matter if you are the one who put the book there in the first place. Your lizard brain will handle that simple task.

>>16218571
>he has to order his books to know where they are
I have a reference shelf, and a manga shelf. Everything else goes where it fits.

>>16219495
If you have like 5 books, sure.

Category (depending on your personal colletion/interests) and then alphabetically within the category.

>>16218571
Alphabetical last names first. No categories unless I've got more than three bookshelves.

>>16218668
Big brain answer

>>16218571
By colours

from favorite to least favorite

>>16218571
I just do non-fiction/ reference (and within that by topic), apart from fiction (within fiction I sort by author, but not alphabetically, because that is autistic; I just put works of the same author next to each other). I have about 200 books, and this system works great for me.

Alphabetical by author by genre /thread

>>16218571
purchase history/read history
that way people can see how your progressed or rather recessed

>>16218571
Yes, I organize by how based they are

>>16218571
just randomly
the closest to organisation that i have is the order in which i read stuff. the most recent are in one place

>>16219882
>>16219282

These
>>16219855
Checked and based

>>16218571
Genre > Author > Year/Series order

>>16218668
A man of true aesthetics

>>16218571
My mother sorted them by color, but I don't sort them at all. I just remember where they are.

>>16218571

Randomly. Not just randomly, but the shelf must be randomized every now and then by someone other than yourself, so you must never know exactly where any book is.

>>16218571
By color and then by thickness

>>16220849
based and chaospilled

i just put them all on the floor in stacks around my bed

>>16219037
I have around 400-500 and categorical organisation is still more than sufficient for me as well.

>>16218668
Vain femoid detected

>>16218571
I do so by genre

>>16219927
How does this look?

By physical size: big and heavy books on the bottom shelf, pocket paperbacks on the top, left to right in order of height/length