when the books are too big for the pile, I place them at the side or at the bottom, but in the same pile. I feel bad about it, but not very. The organisation is just for convenience, I'm actually at this point ethically opposed to it. Books should be a jumble. An undusty jumble. (Then it doesn't matter that the big books are at the bottom.)
This means that this weekend I will probably just dust everybook and put them in neat piles.
This means that this weekend I will probably just dust everybook and put them in neat piles.
But if they should be in a jumble, why put them in neat piles?
When I say neat piles, I mean, you know, if they are all tidily in one physical space. I am quite territorial over my books.
But when I say they are jumbled, I mean they are not organised. They are put in those piles in any order or category. The only order is a physical one, mandated by size and alignment. This is a useful order - physical volume and alignment - sicne it helps you put as many books as possible in a space, and also ensures that they are not falling out everytime you open a cupboard, and it also means that pages don't get dented. (all of these has happened to me.)
But Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic is miles away from The Colour of Magic. Right now it's lodged over Abha Daweswar's Babyji and under Don Delilo's Underworld. (Which last is a library book.)
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How do you organise your bookshelf?
24/11/2009 10:57:57 AM
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Alphabetically. Easier to find what I'm looking for.
24/11/2009 11:11:22 AM
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I always know where my books are in the system.
24/11/2009 11:13:34 AM
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I'm sure you do.
24/11/2009 11:15:14 AM
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Re: I'm sure you do.
24/11/2009 11:17:00 AM
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Yeah.
24/11/2009 11:27:09 AM
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K is law, KD is UK law, and KDC is Scots law. That's all you need to know
. *NM*
27/11/2009 02:35:34 PM
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Bookshelfs are an outdated concept.
24/11/2009 01:34:07 PM
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This has occurred to me
24/11/2009 01:42:01 PM
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You make it sound like I only have one
24/11/2009 03:59:38 PM
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Yes. I meant it as an encompassing word, not to restrict numbers.
24/11/2009 04:30:38 PM
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In answer to your questions:
24/11/2009 05:07:07 PM
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Re: In answer to your questions:
24/11/2009 05:23:51 PM
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Which Arabic dictionaries do you have, exactly?
24/11/2009 08:50:16 PM
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Re: I don't.
24/11/2009 04:13:44 PM
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Re: I don't.
24/11/2009 04:31:56 PM
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Re: It isn't always neat.
24/11/2009 05:17:25 PM
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Re: It isn't always neat.
24/11/2009 05:26:16 PM
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Re: Two different planes of organisation.
24/11/2009 05:38:15 PM
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Re: Two different planes of organisation.
24/11/2009 05:44:34 PM
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Re: why should they not be?
24/11/2009 05:50:16 PM
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Re: why should they not be?
24/11/2009 05:52:52 PM
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Well, they should fit together.
24/11/2009 04:28:20 PM
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Re: How do you organise your bookshelf?
24/11/2009 04:55:12 PM
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Re: How do you organise your bookshelf?
24/11/2009 05:03:20 PM
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Incidentally...
24/11/2009 06:22:28 PM
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Re: How do you organise your bookshelf?
24/11/2009 08:14:59 PM
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Re: How do you organise your bookshelf?
24/11/2009 08:47:38 PM
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Apparently I'm just very boring in this regard.
24/11/2009 09:28:08 PM
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Re: Apparently I'm just very boring in this regard.
24/11/2009 10:18:54 PM
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Star Wars gets one book shelf, everything else gets what's left......
24/11/2009 10:30:26 PM
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Re: Star Wars gets one book shelf, everything else gets what's left......
25/11/2009 11:06:12 AM
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Mainly by topic/genre
24/11/2009 10:47:37 PM
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The Pratchetts are in chronolgical order, and everything else is just fitted in wherever i will it *NM*
24/11/2009 11:16:14 PM
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My bookshelves are a mess. It started out alphabetical/author, then favorites, and now ....
25/11/2009 04:55:20 AM
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Mainly by series.
26/11/2009 02:31:52 AM
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Re: How do you organise your bookshelf?
26/11/2009 02:13:10 PM
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right now they're in stacks on the floor as i don't have enough shelf space
26/11/2009 11:57:44 PM
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Re: right now they're in stacks on the floor as i don't have enough shelf space
27/11/2009 08:34:52 AM
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Rebekah organises our DVDs like that.
27/11/2009 02:39:38 PM
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Re: Rebekah organises our DVDs like that.
27/11/2009 07:59:26 PM
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It is an A.
29/11/2009 10:19:50 AM
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No it is not. Sushi might look like pickled herring but it is not the same thing. *NM*
01/12/2009 06:01:07 PM
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By Genre, then world, then author, then chronologically
29/11/2009 09:26:36 AM
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Perfectly.
30/11/2009 04:47:34 PM
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Re: Perfectly.
30/11/2009 05:08:43 PM
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Re: Perfectly.
01/12/2009 04:51:17 PM
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Re: Perfectly.
01/12/2009 04:55:58 PM
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