Hang in there, kat! We've got ours separated first by fiction and non-fiction, then by subject. We haven't got them alphabetized, but within each subject they're categorized pretty much by size to make good use of shelf space. We haven't cataloged them (probably should), but we can usually remember what's where. One thing that helps is that Barbara has worked for umpteen years in the Seattle Public Library.

Both Barbara and I are book nuts, and I don't know how many volumes we have, but most of the walls of our apartment could collapse and we wouldn't know it because of the rows of bookcases (not to mention piles on the floor). Weirdly enough, most of them we've actually read. When some people see our apartment for the first time, their eyes start to glow with envy. Other people think we're nuts!

Don Firth