/lit/ - Literature

(the post in OP is currently at the top of r/all on reddit)

broadly by genre/topic, then by size, decreasing from left to right

>>23175267
I don't, I just randomly put them anywhere when I finish them

>>23175267
Man that's a lot of bullshit books, good lord do not zoom in on those titles.
For general fiction, vaguely sorted by country and original publish date, poetry has its shelf as does history, philosophy and genre stuff.

I don't.

Years ago I went through a phase of organizing books by things like the sum of the numerical values of the author's first and last initials, just to see who was paying attention. Only two people ever noticed.

>>23175267
>lego for adults sets on top of the bookcase
those little houses go for like 300 bucks because they're 'made specially for adults' lol Jesus christ.

Organization is for women.

>>23175267
Organizing your bookshelf by color is fucking hilarious

>>23175267
I don't. When I moved to my new place I bought 6 meters of floor to ceiling bookshelves and now I just chuck my books in there randomly. Its fairly easy to find a book I'm looking for just by how it looks and remembering what other books I put it near.

>>23175267
It does look nice.

I have 3 Ikea Billy bookshelves and I used to sort them thematically, but now it's a mess.

I don't really organize, I just keep books by the same author together

I've just been throwing them up in the order I complete them. If I'm autistic enough once I move I'll ordering them through LoC numbers.

>>23175267
I don't have a bookshelf.

>>23175267
oh that's nice innit

I organise my shelf by publisher

>>23175267
firstly by literary fiction, fantasy and non fiction
then by language and when it was written
in the end it comes down to height and material

>>23175267
>organize
Why would I do that? Next time I think about something I'll pull half a dozen from the shelves and start walking all over the apartment leaving books on every table anyway. If they're organized today, they'll be disorganized tomorrow. On occasions where I try and bring some order to the chaos, I loosely group them by subject and personal importance.

>>23175294
I'm surprised anyone noticed. I find it highly doubtful I would have.

>superhero stuff
>ya romantasy/Sci fi
>ya romance
>star wars
>sports
>halo
>misc

>>23175444
Imagine if there’s a series or books by the same author but they’re all different colors so they’re all separated

>>23175854
Why are you always posting this cringe shelf?

cant afford physical books

>>23175267
Poorly.
Also I have way to little space for my books so I just put them wherever.
I just try to keep books by the same author together and also books by the same publisher, if they have similar designs, since that just looks neat.
Going to move to a new place soon and get a bigger bookshelf where I want to organize them better, but frankly have no idea how I'll go about it.
Maybe just keep my good looking and rare books on eye level and above put everything else below

>>23175267
Why? That's so inefficient.

>>23175267
i don't know why i am so negative and hateful but for some reason i feel like people who do this and people who use social media to get compliments in general should be put down. the thought alone of someone rearringing their boomshelf to look like this, taking a picture of and uploading it to the internet in anticipation of likes, upvotes and nice encouraging comments makes me want to step outside and break a stranger's nose

>>23175267
https://www.reddit.com/r/funkopop/comments/74jklw/collection_spent_the_day_putting_these_in_order/
why am i not surprised that this guy has an extensive funko pop collection. Jesus, this thread and that reddit user more specifically have ruined my day, my heart is beating faster by the minute and i am frothing at the mouth with rage. The thought of people leading a life like this and it being socially acceptable is terrifying.

I own around 1,700 physical books. I am not wasting time organizing them like a fucking woman. At some point you simply have memorized each book’s location from just sheer exposure

>>23177648
>At some point you simply have memorized each book’s location from just sheer exposure
That's the funny thing: people who organize by color don't actually read their books.

As human history is organized—chronologically.

>>23175267
Organizing books by color is the easiest way to tell me you haven’t actually read any of those books

>Pléiades rows
>Penguin classics row
>Favorites books/authors row near eyesight height
>Genre rows (philosophy, mangas, poetry, chess books, etc.)
>Disliked books rows at the bottom

>>23175267
Imagine forgetting whether you have a book or not and having to resort to looking through every single book you have because you don't know which colour your edition could be

>>23175271
(I'm trans btw)

>>23175871
reminds me of this
https://youtu.be/pYz8SSKsGOw?feature=shared&t=171

I have three book shelves:
1. Fiction read
2. Non-fiction read
3. Unread
Other than the unread shelf, which is just messily thrown there, the other two have authors together and, if there is only a book or two by an author, then somewhat by size in order to maximize shelf space.

>>23175267
By genre, then alphabetically by the authors last name. Duh.

1. Greek and Latin books (both translated, bilingual and the one Illiad in Greek I found)
2. Latinamerican stuff, roughly divided by countries
3. Euro classics (Russian, French and German mostly)
4. and 5. Random stuff I haven't organized further

I also have a pile with Medieval Spanish
and a pile with random stuff since I ran out of shelf space.

Been thinking of getting bookends and using the top of my bookshelf, but I always forget.

>>23177929
heh nobody tells him

>>23178148
Yes, yes, very good. But what if an author has both fiction and non-fiction books?

>>23178271
They get separated. There is no non-fiction on the fiction shelf, and vice versa.

>>23175267
I organize my bookshelves by topic. I have one bookshelf for books I have already read on topics I no longer find interesting, a bookshelf for textbooks and books on topics I'm interested in reading about (e.g., native Americans, books on writing, complexity + brain algorithms, etc), and I have a bookshelf for books on topics I find the most fascinating, primarily nature writing, outdoors-y stuff, and polar exploration

>>23175267
By topic,

>>23177644
i hope he bought shelves for these things

full pic

>>23177644
I disagree with what you do but I will defend to the death your right to do it.

>>23175267
Ok, librarian here. I do like the look, it is striking. But I know that there are series that are broken up, and it's making me itchy

>>23175267
That looks so fucking gay.

By genre - author (sorted chronologically according to the earliest book I have of theirs)

>>23175267
2 shelves. One for fiction, one for nonfiction. Within each, divided by subject and then by author's last name. I do, however, include secondary works on an author with their works because I don't see a reason to put a book about Foucault anywhere but with the Foucault.

>>23175281
I can't see shit because of the resolution, I spotted 'Out' by Natsuo Kirino which is good though I guess

>>23179203
ENTJ librarian here. IDGAF about lame color schemes in libraries. Organize shit by categorized information you nerds, and don't mald over petty junk like split series.

>>23175854
God dammit it's you again, are there only 12 people that use this Mongolian basket weaving forum???

>>23175267
>fiction/non-fiction
>geography/chronology
>author/genre
>interspersed secondary literature selections

Exceptions for favorites or particular study interest. Most history in storage, same for novels that aren't in the favorite corral.

audible sorts them for me

>>23179188
>The SCIENCE book
Stopped reading there

>>23179166
think of the irreparable damage done to the pristine boxed funkos unlucky enough to be sorted on the bottom row. no true funko enthusiast would allow this

>>23175267
By squares
>lit
>genre
>philosophy/religion
>bande dessinée/graphic novels

>>23179324
how is carmilla

>>23175267
>sort books thematically
>book is too tall to fit on the shelf

>>23175267
Some are in a bookshelf, some in a box, some in the space underneath a table, some randonmly lying around the house and the rest lying in a haphazard disorganized pile on my bedroom floor. In all fairness they're all different sizes so I don't see how they would fit in one bookshelf

>>23175496
That is what most normal people do. Makes more sense to clump up books that are by the same author or similar in themes.

By theme, unless it doesn't fit on my shelf properly. Greek historians/ancient go together. Late Roman, Byzantine, 14 century England etc

>>23175267
Disgusting...

>all poetry and plays
>greco-roman that isn't poetry or plays
>manga and comics
>british fiction
>american fiction
>east asian fiction (almost entirely japanese, desu)
>russian and other assorted fiction
>canadian fiction and non-fiction
>scifi and fantasy (pretty sure its almost all american)
>christian non-fiction
>all other non-fiction
>an oversized shelf
and a horizontal stack of coffee table books, where everytime I see it I wonder how much damage the spines are taking

>>23175267
Im giving this pic a pass because they made the gradient move in diagonal, unlike every other sort-by-spine colour shelf pic I've seen

>>23175267
idk lol

>>23175496
This.

>>23175281
Roasties unironically buy books just as decoration

I have a kindle

Alphabetically by writer, genre fiction and slop i deem second rate on the second lowest shelf, lowest shelf is full of cookbooks randomly organized by cuisine.

>>23182823
I haven't got to it yet, I'm slowly but surely working my way through the early influential vampire fiction so it's next up on my list after I finish my copy of The Vampyre.

I'd probably have read it by now but I got slowed down by my copy of Dracula's Guest including The Lair of the White Worm as a bonus. That was hard to get through.

>>23183299
How else are you going to get upside down copies of Monte Cristo for porn?

>>23181762
THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK
THE RELIGION BOOK
THE BUSINESS BOOK
THE FEMINISM BOOK
What the hell is all that shit?

>>23184414
stuff for people to not read. 50% of book sales are cover and spine art so normies can use them as decorations. The other 50% is porn for women

>>23175267
In this order:
>Biblical
>Political Analysis/Science
>Literatures
>General Histories (in order of North America, South America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Orient, Africa)
>Religion
>Memoirs
>Dictator Biographies
>Reference

>>23183063
Are those Penguin Classics unread... Mine got all white lines on the spine.

>>23185714
Because you handle books like an ogre

>>23175267
>pirate book
>load it onto phone
>read it
>delete it
>next

>>23185714
Only older penguins or small ones have that. Or maybe you just handle your books terribly

>>23180477
It’s 13, I’m back from my hiatus.
Captcha: AWMN

I'm buying my first home. I'm no interior decorator, but I'm thinking of going kind of "academic", at least in my home office / study. Does anyone have any book shelf recommendations?

>>23186347
>larp
Also milk crates

>>23186359
I've got books to store (and comics) to store. There's no reason to go uber utilitarian (aside from the dying planet). Got to be a good consoomer and prove that I'm a functioning human being through the mere expenditure of wealth.

I have an ikea bookshelf with squares, so I just try to keep the books in any given square within a rough theme

>>23186347
handstained hardwood, custom cut to cover floor to ceiling

>>23177969
Why keep the disliked books? I usually donate those or give them to people who are likely to enjoy them.

>>23182161
>>23186409
This piece of furniture is for storing records not books. The empty space above your books looks bad.

>>23187121
I still invested time, effort, willingness into reading them. Also I can dislike something and still find some good in it.
Never let me go, Ulysses, the republic, the sound and the fury are in my disliked books row, yet they dont deserve to be thrown away

In folders by theme, and inside that, by author if there's a bunch.

Physical books are only re-re-re-reads, reference, or ones where being printed on paper matters like with illustrations or appendix reference etc

>>23187283
What is this space, I'm so confused

I do genre and alphabetical order of author surname within genre like bookstores do. I need another book shelf though since I have a bunch of my books in storage atm.

>>23180477
There are less then 30 people who regularly visit this board for sure

>>23175267
I have sections for different genres, which are the sorted by author and date of publication

>>23187283
when i see newspaper spread out like that, i immediately think of fish

>>23175267
I organize my bookshelf by author's last name and then by publication date, keeping series together, with the exception of Douglas Adams as that was where I had room and didn't want to separate series which I would have had to do if I put him at the top shelf. I have a whole lot more books in a separate room that I hope to get more bookshelves for one day. Read a good chunk of these, haven't read some of them yet. But will get around to them.

>>23175267
Genre, then all the books by the same author in the order of release, books in the same series grouped up and chronologically.

>>23187135
maybe he only buys big books

>>23184354
Damn they have three copies of Count of Monte Cristo? They must really like the book. If I had to guess their favorite character from the book, I'd say Jim Caviezel.

>>23186409
I get the feeling that these books have not been read very much.

>>23175271
>23175271
How did you know it comes from reddit huh? You post there?

I just spend 20 minutes searching my shelves whenever I want to read a new book

>>23175267
The virgin organized bookshelf vs the chad ominous stacks

>>23183194
based social media users

Not very well. (Bedroom bookshelf)

>>23175267
by a mix of recent purchases and latest reads. it's a mess

>>23183194
fucking based

>>23183299
ye

>>23190279
I am a moderator on 6 subreddits.

>>23188791
>I organize my bookshelf by author's last name and then by publication date
The Silmarillion came out after The Fellowship of the Ring

>>23175267
>when the Adderall hits

>>23187190
Any reason The Sound and the Fury is on the disliked shelf? I’d love to hear your thoughts

>>23192102
women make fun of me for being autistic and then do shit like this

>>23178122
(Don't know it that matters)

>>23183063
>John Cena

>>23194883
There was one specific Finnish version of the Kalevala on eBay once, it was ideal to me. And like an idiot I didn't order it, and somebody else bought it. Haven't seen it again since. Next time I see one, it's mine, but I feel like I won't because old nice hardcover copy on english internet is rare. Maybe if I visit Finland I'll find one.
Very robust collection you've got, mate. I have not delved into philosophy, I am a pleb and I bow to you. Older scifi roolz, haven't been convinced by newer stuff yet. I love Tolkien, it's cool you can get into LotR.

>>23175267

>>23194183
You might be autistic if you don't assume that review from 2009 is taking the piss

>>23187283
Yeah I hate when my kindle shits all over my bookshelf too

>>23175267
>>23179188
can't think of anything more impractical, in terns of finding anything.
then again, i worked in educational publishing and even teachers who use a text daily will most often refer to it by colour or cover: "the geology book with the orange cover", "the poetry book with the painting of Shakespeare", etc.

>>23185714
I'm glad there are actual good writers on this board

The library does it for me

By topics, and inside each topic by original publishing age.

>>23195968
the big one is an illustrated version from 1985

>I have not delved into philosophy, I am a pleb and I bow to you
lol I haven't read even half of them

newer scifi has it's moments

>>23175281
I zoomed in

>>23196965
God I hate zoomers

>>23175781
Now this is insanity

Now that I have bookshelves on different floors, it's really driven home how impractical strict subject/author sorts can be.

I have a shelf in the living room that's books I've recently read or frequently want to loan/show off to people (basically books that are a topic of conversation.) These are just sorted by how recently I've pulled them off the shelf for any reason, when it's time to add new books, I retire the stuff that's migrated down to the bottom righthand corner to wherever else it might go.

In the bedroom I have a shelf of books I'm currently reading or that I keep telling myself I'm going to read soon. Again, ordered just by however long since I've picked it up.

Then I have several shelves of short story collections, poetry, and essays all together. And the non-fiction and reference books in my office. These are ordered alphabetically by author, no genre-sort. Borges broke me of trying to separate poetry from short stories, but it made everything easier really.

Novels get 2 areas: a closet full of novels I've read that I don't think I'm likely to want to loan to anyone anytime soon, and a couple shelves out of the way for novels I haven't read, for when I don't like anything on my "definitely going to read this next" shelf. These do get a loose genre-sort, just to make it easier to pick something based on my mood.

How do you guys deal with 2nd rowing? I dont have space for a 4th bookshelf. Which books are doomed to be put behind? Besides children's books you still own from back then, and the odd clickbait book you impulse-bought?

>>23197659
Honestly I'd much rather put stuff in a box when I run out of shelf space than have a second row. When you are trying to find something, digging around behind all your books is such a pain in the ass. With a box you can just tape a piece of paper to the inside flap that lists what you put in the box, then carry the thing down to the table and pull stuff out if you really need something in it.

Put books you have already read that you don't think you're likely to loan out particularly aggressively in the box.

>>23175267
Oh my Science! I'm having a tremoring transgasm in my fronthole right now! Blood and pus is flying all over my books!

I don't.

>>23184414
Its basically a 2-4 page summary of various thinkers in a field. It's like wikipedia in that its there to push you into looking for more.

First genre (e.g. history)
Then subgenre (e.g. English history)
Then author
Then order within a series

>>23175781
I expect this to be visually appealing as a publisher will use similar visual themes

>>23175267
I have one small bookshelf that has maybe 20 books on it. I love all of the books on it and plan on getting another small book shelf soon. I am restarting my collection because 90% of the stuff I had was total dogshit.

>>23199903
looks soulless actually