/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13714271]

How do you sort your books?
> Your humble OP sorts by genre first, then by subject, and finally by color
pic related: maximum autism mode

[Anonymous No.13714279]

>>13714271
I don't.

[Anonymous No.13714303]

>>13714271
>by color
truly the most autistic way

[Anonymous No.13714331]

>>13714303
comfy

[Anonymous No.13714386]

>not just downloading all your books from libgen

[卐 No.13714574]

>>13714271
Don’t bully plz

[Anonymous No.13714580]

>>13714386
I don’t get the whole libgen thing. It never has any of the books that I want

[Laura Numeroff No.13714613]

>>13714303
Why the pee pee?

[Anonymous No.13714645]

>>13714303
you got it all nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78oLAPZsDDw

[Anonymous No.13714690]

>>13714303
>squat rack / bed
>the berserk collection
Muh nig-
>the rest of the image
I hope this is b8

[Anonymous No.13714804]

Welcome to the next tier.

[Anonymous No.13715260]

>not sorting by color before turning them around

Seriously though, mine are sorted into religion (only Christian books ofc), poetry, non fiction, and fiction. Each section is in very loose chronological order for either the date they were written, or the time period of the subject (in the case of history books). My fiction section is grouped by author as well.

[Anonymous No.13715270]

Eh, i try to sort them chronologically

[Anonymous No.13715289]

>>13714804

[Anonymous No.13715299]

Arbitrary sections based on the author's nationality, or the type of work (epics, philosophy, handbooks, textbooks)

[Anonymous No.13715304]

>>13714613
maybe he fasts and drinks his own pee

[Anonymous No.13715567]

By genre and author. I have subsections of national, religious, avantgarde/subculture and mixed.

[Anonymous No.13715577]

>>13714271
alphabetical only you mong

[Anonymous No.13715607]

>>13714271

1) Practical/reasonable size/weight constraints: heavy books on bottom of shelf, lighter books on top. Helps a stable shelf and also prevents damage.

2) General subject sorting. Generally, either alpha/author or chronological or-by-series as it makes sense.

[Anonymous No.13715612]

>>13714804
>>13715289
Holy shit at first I thought they were just white books

[Anonymous No.13715677]

>>13715607
Did you really place the fridge between the libraries?

[Anonymous No.13715692]

>>13715677

I live in a hovel so the kitchen area is the only place the library can go. I used to live in a nicer apartment; when I did, the library was on the bedroom wall directly opposite my bed, in imitation of my father's library in his own master bedroom.

[Anonymous No.13715695]

>>13715607
I like your layout map, anon. My books are in a similar state. The upstairs library has a wall of literature/fiction A-Z by author + anthologies, then ancient classics, myth, philosophy, religion, medieval, early modern (anything Early Modern/newer than 1800 goes in the alphabetical fiction). Then books about literature, non-fiction by authors (essays, etc.), and miscellaneous non-fiction and reference. The corner has a skinny case of all poetry (A-Z + anthologies), and a case of children's literature (A-Z), then a case with drama, books about children's lit, art books, photo books, etc

[Anonymous No.13715716]

>>13715695
The downstairs library is less organized, and the wildly variable book size is a factor. It has all genre fiction (Fantasy, SF, Horror, Humour, Mystery) assembled roughly alphabetically by author A-Z, and then comic/graphic novels in very little order (and they've overflowed into shelves on the other side). It all needs better sorting, but I love the books. Box sets and oversized books tend to go on top of cases wherever I can find room, upstairs or down.

[Anonymous No.13715727]

I used to be autistic about it and sort by geographic region>author by date published

Now I just sort them into broad categories. My teddyk/linkola stack is next to some gardening and homesteading books I have on one side, which then goes from environmentalism to Urban planning type books and so on.

Next to my stack of ancient Roman books I have some fiction like Shakespeares Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and John Williams' Augustus, latero in the mist and so on. I mix up fiction and non fiction like this everywhere

[Anonymous No.13715736]

>>13715695
Part of the upstairs library.

[Anonymous No.13715782]

I have mostly history books so it's sorted by regions or specific time periods, then philosophy by year, then art/architecture/athro, and at the bottom nonfiction sorted randomly

[Anonymous No.13715795]

>>13715736
Sorry, wrong view.

[Anonymous No.13715861]

someone said its soi but i do it by size (length) so i can actually see every book

[Anonymous No.13715959]

>>13715861

This is practical esp. when there's a spot where it zig-zags too much. Dad does this (he goes by height) but I blend alpha-author (which usually controls) with space considerations. You don't want some huge art book right next to some tiny piece of ephemera.

[Anonymous No.13715997]

>>13715959
i meant by height my bad. my huge monet book and textbooks would totally obscure my small novels so its a must for me

[Anonymous No.13716264]

>>13715795
beautiful

[Anonymous No.13716274]

>>13714279
This desu

[Anonymous No.13716599]

height - my brother used to sort by category

[Anonymous No.13716684]

>>13714804
book in English tend to have shitty covers.

[Anonymous No.13716787]

>>13714271
Non-fiction continentals, psychology, fiction, politics, non-fiction analytics, history, ancients/mythology/religion

[Anonymous No.13716794]

I go alphabetical by the author's last name then the title, although I'm considering sorting them by release order. Not sure though.

[Anonymous No.13716810]

>>13715861
This, and then by genre and type if possible.
American Psycho with Blood Meridian
Women authors all in a row
2nd shelf is where the thicc books go + overflow, bible furthest left, not Muslim.

[Laura Numeroff No.13716815]

>>13715304
oh yea, duh
nvm

[Anonymous No.13716818]

>>13716810
Should add that most of my ”collection“ is online and sorted by author‘s last name. Most of these books are from my parent‘s shelves because they don’t read.

[Anonymous No.13716854]

Economics
Philosophy
History
College text books
Self help/hobby books.
Various other non fiction
Fiction

[Anonymous No.13716971]

>buying books

[Anonymous No.13717188]

>>13714271
Paperbacks should be stacked next to books of similar height to prevent spine damage. Especially if they've been packed tighter than they should be in the shelf.

[Anonymous No.13717490]

the books that I have read I put in the order that I've read them

[Anonymous No.13717501]

By topic and importance to me since I almost only read nonfiction.

[Anonymous No.13717545]

>>13714271
By author, publisher mostly, by genre and 'country' as second.

[Anonymous No.13717962]

>>13715607
This, categories are the way to do it. And interests.

Mine is
>SciFi and fantasy at the bottom
>Above that is politics and sociology
>Above that is philosophy and tales, fables and poems
>Above that is a plant
>On the left is religion
>On the bottom left is bioethics and history
>Against the other wall I put a shelf on the side and put my mango and bandes dessinées

Colors and chronological is retarded.

>>13715289
I'd kick her head in as well.
>I don't need to know what I'll read, I'll read what I pick up.
The Netflix mentality.

[Anonymous No.13718143]

>>13714271
First by gender of author, then by nationality, then era in which the author wrote.

[Anonymous No.13718159]

>>13714271
>sorting by colo[u]r
What a massively counter intuitive thing to do

[Anonymous No.13718164]

>>13714804
That's extremely based and alpha. IMagine someone coming over and asking why you have them like that and simply responding, "I know where each book is. Why, do you not do this?"

[Anonymous No.13718178]

Why yes, I sort by how good they smell. I give them a sniff every quarter to see if they need rearranging. How could you tell?

[Anonymous No.13718185]

>>13717962
I sort by genres but why is chronically retarded? It's easy to remember when book was published?

[Anonymous No.13718193]

>>13718185
*chronologically

[Anonymous No.13718237]

>>13714271
I only keep books I plan on rereading so have less than 50 physical books, most I read on my kindle since it's a lot easier here's how I organize physical books
>fiction
>learning
>nonfiction

[Anonymous No.13718277]

>>13718185
Stuff that was meaningful in 400BC is just as meaningful now.
Works for the cooking books I didn't mention, stuff from the 50s and microwave cooking are near each other. No problem here.

[Anonymous No.13718290]

>>13718277
Well I don't own cooking books. And I would separate fiction and noon-fiction, naturally.

[Anonymous No.13718658]

>>13714271
I sort them by what war or time frame is involved. Then there is a tiny section that is "faggot shit that doesn't involve warfare".

[Anonymous No.13719226]

>>13714271

By genre, and then if it's fiction in the chronological order the story goes, nonfiction in the chronological order of the time the book covers/when it was published if it's not a history or politics book