Ah, an organization scheme perilously close to my own at the moment. I thought that having a rule to only keep out the ones I'm currently reading would help with that, but apparently not.
Fiction is shelved alphabetically by author. I used to have all my nonfiction and reference works shelved by academic field and then alphabetically by first author or editor, but I got bored, so nonfiction is shelved separately according to LoC call number. Plays are shelved with nonfiction because I mostly use them for reference.
I can't imagine getting my shit together enough to shelve by LoC. Plus I'm pretty sure that if I did, I'd never find anything ever again, because when I worked in a library they were using the Dewey Decimal system.
I have pretty much every wall of my place covered in bookshelves. Some have two layers of books on them. The (small) non-fiction selection is all together, as are the text-books. Aside from that, I try to keep books by the same author together, series in order, and I have one shelf set aside for books I haven't read yet.
Oh, man. Two layer of books? How do you FIND things, when they're behind other things? (I say, as a person whose current filing system amounts to, "put it in a pile, no, not that pile, the OTHER pile," and a whole lot of profanity.)
Huh. I do that a little, but I still think if I couldn't see the books I'd forget they were there. Also, I suspect that if I tried to double the books up, S would start carting them out of the house in buckets. That would probably be an issue. *g*
I hate running out of space on the right shelf. I've been known to take every single book off the shelves and start from scratch, if there are enough that don't fit.
If you'd ever seen our book collection, you'd realize how horrifying Shannon finds the very thought of this happening again anytime in his lifetime.
My best-beloved authors go all on one book case, fit into the appropriate shelves per size, but kept all together in chronological order per author - internal chronology of the universe for books in a series, but if that's not relevant then publishing order. (Only real exclusion to this is Pterry, because he now runs well over one shelf and the fact the last, god, eight Discworlds?! have all come out in hardcover first made life Complex, shelving wise.)
Everything else gets arranged on other shelves in clumps with the rest of its genre nearby, in alphabetical-by-author order if I can manage it, but there's a lot of juggling to keep all the small-format paperbacks in the small-format-paperback-sized shelves and books and series that are trades or HB or Weird Sizes wind up on the other shelving.
Huh. We do a little of this with S's King books, but mostly we go for alphabetical for fiction. Although Conan Doyle drives me BUGFUCK INSANE, because I can never remember if it's C or D. As a result, all of our ACD books are stuck together on top of a bookcase all alone. Organization is evidently not as important to me as catering to my own neuroses. *g*
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If you'd ever seen our book collection, you'd realize how horrifying Shannon finds the very thought of this happening again anytime in his lifetime.
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Everything else gets arranged on other shelves in clumps with the rest of its genre nearby, in alphabetical-by-author order if I can manage it, but there's a lot of juggling to keep all the small-format paperbacks in the small-format-paperback-sized shelves and books and series that are trades or HB or Weird Sizes wind up on the other shelving.
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