BS: How organised is your home library?

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Schantieman
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 11:22 AM

Fiction in one bookcase (with a bit of poetry & drama at the end); songbooks, humour and stuff like that in another; one for reference, biography & history & one with sailing, other nautical/naval stuff, climbing (inc. guidebooks) & other sports. (Climbing and sailing are surpassed only by cricket in the quality of writing about them, and probably not by much!). Oh, and cookery books on the kitchen windowsill (leaving room for the basil).

There are always those that fit into more than one category though. What do you do with Chichester's autobiographical account of sailing round the world? Or historical stuff about the birth of rock climbing in the 1880s?

The problem is repeatedly having to find room for new acquisitions as I can't bear to throw away books. I have been known to rescue them from skips!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 10:42 AM

Hahaha! Hrothgar! That's what we've already done! We moved into this house and took the really small bedroom so that we'd have room for a "library/office" in the bigger one!*bg*

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 06:54 AM

It might be a good idea to move to a bigger house to have room for the books, but what if there are too many books to move?

And it's no damn good saying "Get rid of a few" because if I didn't want them, I wouldn't have bought them in the first place!

I don't think I'm in as much trouble as some people, though. All I have is about 200 lineal feet of books, and about 40 feet of LPs, CDs, and tapes. The big decision will have to come one of these days - instead of sleeping in the big bedroom, and using the small one for a library, I'll have to swap.

At least I have them sorted - fiction in alphabetical order, non-fiction by category (and even sub-category, as the song books are broken up into Australian, English, Scots, Irish, American, and other, as are the folklore and history).

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 12:52 AM

It used to be fairly well organized...music books here...spiritual/new age/yoga/and so on there...airplane books there...books about ships there...biographies there...

Oh, and the William Shatner wing, which of course was/is massive... (heh! heh!)

Lately it's not so well organized as before. That comes from living under 2 roofs, and going back and forth all the time.

Beam me a bookshelf, Scotty!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 11:56 PM

Did yall know that the Vatican Library is the best place to go for books about naughty things? The problem is they really don't let you come in and browse. It's interesting that an organization where nearly every employee is supposed to be celebate has the world's most extensive collection of sex books.

One thing my girlfriend and I are trying to resolve - she reads Horror and I read SF. We both read Fantasy, but radically different authors.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 10:16 PM

Blimey, I thought I had book problems! Small, as it turns out, compared to some of you lot. Mind you, the loose stuff in box-files is getting a bit out of hand, and my desk (nearly the size of a double bed) is pretty well invisible most of the time...

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 08:44 PM

Mine is organised to the extent that all the books are in one house.....

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 Aug 02 - 05:17 PM

I'd need at least another shelf, but by and large I know my way about my books! Far from realissing my dream of entering them ALL, with ALL particulars, including key words, into the database! (The d. is there - it can even distinguish between books, articles and magazines, and tell me who I lent all the missing books to ...)

Back to music:
Harvey, would you pleeeease post the rest of those lyrics??? They're the only ones missing from the sleeve of my Hypertension LP, and I'd love to have them.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 05:32 PM

Ask WYSIWYG when she gets back what my place looks like. *g* I'm down to 40 boxes of books I don't have room for on the bookshelves, but a couple of years ago it was 257, so I'm getting there. The subjects are starting to migrate to recognizable places. In a week or two, I'll start putting more stuff on the aucion.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 02:41 PM

MMario, try the Vatican Library. It includes pretty much all of the LOC and a lot of 'disappeared' materials as well.

I am considering moving so that I can have more wall space for my books and paintings. My current categories include: Maritime general reference, maritime history, maritime fiction, music, sea music, musical history, music magazines, religion and philosophy, classics, books that should be classics, science fiction [My collection of Analog/Astounding used to go back to the '50's], fantasy, mystery, John D. MacDonald, labor law and 'other.' The floor is almost full because there is a pleasand perversion in some areas of Brooklyn--when people are done with a book, they put it and its kin on the stoop so others can pick through them. Books don't get shelved until I read them and decide whether or not to keep them. I am so far behind I may never die.

Some stuff is still not unpacked from my last move, 6 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 01:26 PM

Masato, please know that I did not mean to offend you. It's just that you are so knowledgable and swift with answers to queries that I thought to tease a bit. Please accept my apology.

Thank you,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 01:03 PM

For my library to be organized, I would need a much larger room (rather rooms). Part of my books are in cardboard boxes in other rooms and the storeroom. Sometimes I can't find a book which I think I have for days or weeks, or even don't know whether I've got the one or not. All information is in my brain only. My room, from the eye of the ordinary people (my wife is one), is definitely "messy," which I'm not proud of.

~Masato

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:37 PM

LOL, I was just teasin' him, Nigel....you should see the top of my desk, er....if you could that is!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:34 PM

Kat: I don't know why you disbelieve Masato, Many people will have a messy desk, or work area, with everything piled on top of everything else (or vice versa), but if it stuff they use they will be able to put their hands on an item almost immediately.
"A tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind!"

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: MMario
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:22 PM

Just send me one of everything in the library of congress - it'll do for a start.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Ironmule
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:18 PM

If there's a twelve step program for bookaholics I don't want to know about it...let my heirs try to deal with the collection.

I suffered great trauma when I had to sell my library about fifteen years ago. I couldn't afford the freight to move from Oregon to Florida with more than I could pack into a Datsun pickup. Then I got a job as a bookstore clerk and the bookaholism previously contained by poverty, ran wild.

17 sets of bookshelves comprising 194 linear ft. About 20ft of LP's, tapes, CD's. 20 boxes of scruffy books, magazines to be clipped when I get around to it, clippings to be sorted and filed. Oh, yes, the mantle over the fireplace has 4ft of the books I meant to read next.

My first pass through the ERHamilton catalog this past month resulted in $600 worth of books I MUST have and my attempts to trim the order were interupted by the arrival last night of the new book catalog.

My name's Jeff and I'm a bookaholic.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 11:37 AM

I'm probably gonna get in big fat trouble for this, but do you guys know about Half.com? It's an ebay site. Lots of goodies and you can make a Wish List.....

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: MMario
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 11:31 AM

can you say "no organization whatsoever" - I've got about 5000 I haven't unpacked from the move 20 years ago - a couple of bushels of books sitting in the woodbin - three walls of bookshelves in my room - several garbage bags full in the closet - and maybe a hundred probably in the car.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Wesley S
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 11:07 AM

Yes - all of the music is alphabetical by style. The books are a little less organized but I know where everything is - usually.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 11:04 AM

Hahaha...Mister-At-Your-Fingertips-Masato, you expect us to believe that "messy" stuff?! If so, it must be a well catalogued messy! **BG**

DaveO, we used to have the same conversation. Now, I really am downsizing. I have piles to go to kids, to friends, to auctions, and to shelves. When I get done there will still be plenty on the shelves!LOL..

kat

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 10:48 AM

Like many other people, my Beautiful Wife and I are always overcrowded in our book storage.

From time to time I'll say, "We've GOT to get rid of some of these books!" And I'll name a number of them that we both know we'll never read or refer to again.

Her answer is predictable: "But THAT'S a CLASSIC!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 08:26 AM

but see Scorch, I'm still getting over being raised by Mrs. Earbore of Grosse Pointe. She has pristine white carpet in the ancestral condo.

On a happier note, I have been adding to my Gertrude Stein collection lately from E-Bay. What joy! I have "A Wife has a Cow" now with Juan Gris lithographs.......hg

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 05:26 AM

I'd rather read a book
You know I never tire
Of the feel and the look
Of a loved and treasured book
It's all that I desire
And if I have a dream
To which I could aspire
It's just for a little nook
Where I can read a book
Alone and by the fire

Chorus of "I'd rather read a book"

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: greg stephens
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 03:53 AM

Recently moved house. Music books are fairly neatly on one set of shelves, but unfortunately you cant get to them as the room is full of heavy cardboard boxes and a giant carnival puppet. My Patrick O'Brien's are however safely lying on the bedroom floor and accessible. First things first.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Kaleea
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 02:53 AM

I JUST moved, and all of my books, except for about 2 of 'em, are in boxes, unpacked cause the room has a very & tacky deep blue paint with some scary white sponge rollie thingie all over it and the landlady is supposed to paint it. Normally, I organise my library of books according to subject. When I have several books by one author, I place them together. I have very little fiction, except for just a few of the so called "classics." I used to have many more times the books, but after all the unusual circumstances which have had me galavanting across the country in recent years, I have had to let go of many, many favorite books. Sad, cause I love reading, & I love having favorite books around to reread, & rereread again. Now, when I shop in the 2nd hand stores & used bookstores, & see a copy of favorite book which I used to have, I just have to get it for my future reading enjoyment. I have about 3 bookcases with 5 shelves about a yard wide, mostly filled with books. This does not include my music library! That is all in my music studio, and the subject of a bit different topic.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 02:48 AM

Ah...little puss-pussy ...your library will be organized about the time you start harvesting your garden....the garden you longed for in late winter of this year.

How does that go?
About the girl...who wouldn't hoe?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 02:33 AM

Hey JIK, do I get to put in MY two cents worth?

The "scruffy" paperbacks in the basement include my lifetime collection of favorite authors: every John D. MacDonald book written, including his two sci-fi novels; some ungodly number of fantasy books, including the 1960s editions of the Tolkein books, well-read (maybe they DO qualify as scruffy); and more mysteries than I want to think about. I don't dare go down there; I'd be lost for days reading the ones I'd forgotten I had!

Upstairs are the (mostly newer) hardbacks, sorted by author name (at least on my side of the room). Until recently, I only had three authors I'd buy in hardback, but that's definitely changed.

Anyone who takes a quick scan of our collection(s) will be able to tell immediately whose is whose. John reads NO fiction; I read very little else. Both of us read too damned much, since neither of us can bear to throw or give a book away once it's in the house.

We desperately need a couple more bookcases to get rid of the ones piled on every flat surface (true story). Unfortunately, the blasted windows take up too much room in this house!

Is there a 12-step program for bookaholics?

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 01:37 AM

You're lucky in some respects, blackcatter. My cats think anything on a bottom shelf represents a litter box.......books, videos, knick-nacks.....etc. I totally forgot about the comparative religion, antrho & archaeology texts, herbals and gardening books. (I know what I have and where it's at---it's just the OldBrain not working!)

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Blackcatter
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 01:25 AM

Mostly in some sort of subject order - but I just moved and they're in less order than before, because it was important to get them up on shelves and out of the garage. I have several bookshelves in my office filled with religion, history, philosophy, music, art, mythology, folklore, poetry, fiction, literature (there's a difference in our home), general reference, cookbooks, biography, travelogues, archaeology, palentology, etc.

I have my "coffee-table" books on a high shelf now that I share my world with 3 cats who think the coffee table is theirs. My collection of SF & Fantasy short stories collections is in its own cabinet (14,000 + different short stories) as is my Orlando/Central Florida history collection (my job). They are all grouped, with really big books over out of the way, but not alpha-ed within the category.

I spent 3 years shelving for the Orlando Public Library (4 million volumes) so I cna be organized when I need to be. My girlfriend, with whom I just moved in is stunned by the amount of books I have. She's a reader, just not a collector. She's also stunned by the 600+ CDs (200+ Celtic), 35 mm & 2 inch slides, 8mm & 16 mm movies and dozen scrap books I brought into her home.

I love media...

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:46 AM

Of course it's OK. Alliekiwi has offered to ship me from NZ the British editions of Harry Potter.....she sent shipping prices but not book prices. Waiting to hear that......I do clear out once in a while to make room for new stuff but I am pretty selective about what I clear!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: harpgirl
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:43 AM

...my mother made me feel guilty ALL my life for saving anything, especially my books! You people have helped me HEAL! Halllelujah! I only have eight racks of five shelves each at home and three racks of six shelves each at the office...I love books! And it's okay!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Bert
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:35 AM

Ya know I'm beginning to like that John-in-Kansas guy!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:24 AM

John's post brings up an interesting question--how many book shelves and how much linear space do you have? I haven't measured the linear, but I have 8 book shelves, most with several shelves. No idea how many books......

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:18 AM

The ugly ones - or ones we're not likely to want immediately - go in the 28 bookcases in the basement. This includes old textbooks, reference stuff, and lots of paperbackes that have gotten rather scruffy.

Newer stuff, for general reference and current reading, in the 8 bookcases in the living room. Special sections for the music books.

Business stuff on a half-dozen 6-foot shelves in the office.

Total: 308 lineal feet of shelves, last time I added it up.

What doesn't fit in the bookcases is in piles on various flat surfaces (of course, just waiting to be put away).

Inventory of the more useful stuff (a little less than half) is 1961 titles (as of yesterday evening)

I keep a brief summary of the most recent 1500 or so clipped to the visor in my truck, updated about every third "acquisition trip" - for reference when we go browsing and can't remember for sure if we've already got one.

MY books would be a lot more organized if my partner would just get rid of some of her TRASH!

John

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Bert
Date: 09 Aug 02 - 12:16 AM

About 50%

The rest is in boxes.

The organized part has a full bookcase for music books and another for cook books and another for home improvement and woodworking stuff.

We have about 1/2 a bookcase for gardening and 1/2 for crafts.
Shelves are allocated for poetry, history, geography, needlework (which has it's own shelves, separate from crafts).

There is one bookcase full of fiction which is completely disorganized.
There are about a dozen boxes of books in the library which are partly organized. Partly meaning that all the non-fiction is organized but the fiction is still in boxes.

Upstairs there are twenty or more full boxes which we haven't got to yet.

Every week we declare a moratorium on buying books and then we go to Goodwill and _ Ah well, you know how it goes, there's this cookbpok for 25 cents and this book about something else and there's maybe a Dick Francis or a Hammond Innes that we can't resist.

WELL YOU DID ASK!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 11:58 PM

Let me put it this way -- how organised is a small town in Kansas the day after the tornado came through?

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 11:00 PM

Organized? Not at all. Messy is the word.

~Masato

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: maire-aine
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 10:35 PM

For what it's worth, shelf 1: fiction and poetry(mostly Irish) in the living room; shelf 2-3-4:Irish Art (1600AD+), history & politics, gardening-cooking-crafts and some misc. CDs, between the livingroom and diningroom; shelf 5: music and books waiting to be read in my bedroom where I keep my guitar on a stand; shelf 6-7-8: more cookbooks, Irish language, mysteries and leftovers from college in the spare bedroom. Most everything that I didn't care about went to the used bookstore when I moved. Now I keep a box for the friends of the library and I take that in about twice a year.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 08:42 PM

kat, I cannot help you with cataloging (katalogging?) your collection, but if you need more bookshelves, I can supply you with details of a modular system which I invented many years ago (probably been ripped off by now) involving threaded rod and plywood. ULTRA CHEAP and (IMHO) attractive (in a semi-industrial sort of way).

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 08:11 PM

when I was in college and studying, I had a real 'library', and did pretty well by subject matter...now only the SF and cookbooks and music books are 'together' (and Ferrara's art books and bird & flower books, which she uses for design)...

the rest are in boxes or shelves according to best fit!...Tedious!...old Philosophy texts next to guides to beer making and Erotic art...but it can be fun just digging thru and looking--I always find something I had forgotten about.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: artbrooks
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:44 PM

Paperback SF in the bedroom...about 50 linear feet...alphabetically by author. Hardbound SF (Anne McCaffrey dragon books mostly), mystery (Tony Hillerman) and adventure (Patrick O'Brian) in the living room, songbooks and histories (sorta grouped by era) in the den, cookbooks (3 shelves worth, in no particular order, only two books ever used) in the kitchen, craft books in Jenn's studio.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:44 PM

Ah now, books are my real passion. I have a room in our house which is my library. I group by subject for non-fiction and by author for fiction. I award each book I read a score of one to five, if it fails to make five (and there are five+ and five++ categories) it goes to a second hand dealer I sell to, except those fiction authors I collect, Hardy, Simenon, Gissing, Cheever, and Stanley Middleton.But fiction is only a quarter of my library. Favourite categories are music, history, current affairs and biographies and autobiographies of anyone creative in the arts. I've sold complete collections of others like Graham Greene knowing I'd never re-read them at my time of life! I have a record of every book I've ever read since 1973 and if they were still in the house we couldn't move, but the ones I love stay with me.An ideal day out is Hay On Wye, the book village here in Britain, but every town now has its charity shops and its remainder outlets and I'm amazed at what I can sometimes find for a pound or two. At the moment I have some 700 books I haven't yet read on all manner of sunjects. I love them as artifacts..the way they're made, printed, smell, feel.. I could go on, but true bibliophiles know what I mean! Sorry to go on, but it's a passion!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:32 PM

The general stuff is a complete disaster and we are currently cleaning it out.....If I haven't seen it in years, it goes. We love books but the general stuff is like books fo books sake and just ridiculous.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Deda
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:23 PM

I have all poetry in one place, all Latin & classics stuff in another (not in perfect order), all children's books in another room (a favorite topic), all bios & autobios together (except for what's with classics), general history stuff all together(ditto), spiritual stuff and whatever I'm currently reading on a bookshelf next to my bed. Adult fiction alpha by author, and everything else on one large bookshelf, pretty much in sections (Shakespeare & drama, foreign languages, dictionaries & reference books, etc.) When I was first confronted with this (when I was first divorced & living alone) I went to the library and got a handout on the categories in the Dewey decimal system, and used that to give me an idea of categories. If I had just done fiction/nonfiction, I would have had too much of a mish-mash. The basic set-up I did years ago has worked pretty well. Have fun! It's a luxury to be able to do this.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:20 PM

Cookbooks in the kitchen (of course!); Celtic Studies/Irish in one bookshelf (fiction and non fiction both--not alpha); SciFi in another, alpha; General fiction in the bedroom; Reference and biography in another in the bedroom; encyclopedia, Western History in the back room; atlas and maps under the TV in the back room. Library books on the music table (the music books are there too of course.) Dictionaries by the computer.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:17 PM

The books we use frequently, specifically music, art, gardening and Buddhist studies are well organized. Everything else is survival of the fittest. Haven't seen some of them in years.

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 07:12 PM

LOL, that's it for you lot! Here I am trying to reform and all I get...**BG**

Actually, Les, I think we are going to have to do some of them by size to save space, too.

And, Dave! That sounds about like what I've always had, except that for the most part, in our last bigger house, all of the bookshelves were in one large room. This house is so much smaller, I have visions of running shelves along the tops of the doorways and windows, etc. as I've seen done in some of the old New England houses, although their ceilings were a lot lower. I am going to ahve to carry around a step stool regardless.:-)

Night Owl as you may remember, lost everything to a house fire. She's been very encouraging based on her experience with the insurance company and not having an intact catalogue of her really incredible library to go by. If nothing else, take pictures of their spines, in your bookcases, and send them to a friend or put them in a bank box, just so you have some kind of record. There is also a place online which will let you build a catalogue online, accessible from any computer, for about $20 per year. I suppose if one was a bookseller or something that would be helpful.

Thanks a bunch!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 06:55 PM

"Organized"??? "Organized???" What's that?

My language-related and other reference books, like the ancient unabridged dictionary, the etymological dictionary, medical dictionaries, are in one book-stand in the livingroom.

Cookbooks (lots and lots and lots and lots) and a few historical type books are in another bookcase in the family room.

Computer-type books and manuals, along with yet more cookbooks, are in a bookcase in the room that serves as my office/computer room with the two computers.

Some more cookbooks and bound copies of years and years of Gourmet magazine, plus some magic books left over from when I was an active magician, are in a bookcase in the garage.

Miscellaneous music books, and juvenile books (quite a bit of the Oz series, as well as Nancy Drew, Wind in the Willows, and on and on) left over from when our grown kids were kids, are in what used to be my daughter's room.

Everything else is in some built-in bookcases in the family room, in no discernible order.

I may be forgetting some locations and some contents. Actually, it's more organized than I thought when I started to type this post.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: How organised is your home library?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 06:49 PM

I would love to have an organised library. I know all about organisation (honest). But unfortunately I have to organise mostly by size, to get the majority of my books on the shelves. The rest of them just hang about in odd spaces giving me nasty looks.

Do we Dewey? Here it's not so much Dewey Decimal, it's more Dewey Avoirdupois!