I guess John is "busted" now if you two haven't reached an accord over how your books are stashed. I found the thread here. Here is the germane part:

LiK has developed a new method of organization, particularly for her more recent acquisitions. The newer books are generally placed near the top of a pile on the floor, with older ones further down - unless one of the cats (or dogs) have tipped a pile over, in which cases she uses the method where the ones closest to where the pile must be rebuilt generally end up lower down and the ones that landed where they're harder to reach end up nearer the top, or occasionally remain where they landed as the start of a new pile.

An orderly sorting into sub-categories results from the tendency for the stacks of books she's read in bed (most of them) are in stacks in the bedroom, which seems quite logical to me. The books she intends to take elsewhere "to share" are generally in paper sacks (often "shopping bags" - up to 3 or 4, although rarely as many as 5) by the back door, while the ones she brought back with her (from friends who shared) are in separate sacks and/or torn up boxes in the same general vicinity (some of her friends fail to provide truly adequat packaging).

(Many of the ones she brings back, that friends insisted she "must have," go directly to the "ready to go" stashes for re-distribution. She says some of her friends have "less literate tastes" than hers.)

The "Index" that I previously kept when I was really busy seems to have terminated some time ago at 2,127 titles, mostly mine. Since my "retired" lifestyle doesn't demand as much organization, I feel I have an excuse - but I don't know what her claims might be. She has her own index but I don't think she's kept it too well up to date. I would suspect that she has at least 2,000 titles "somewhere" but I'd have to count the stacks on the floors for an update to my guess.

Ultimately, the only surviving organization really is just into two categories formally referred to as "somewhere" and "elsewhere."

I know this system!

SRS