How the fuck do you guys organize your bookcases?

>>9064933
I like to align the books vertically, spine out

>>9064933
I don't use a bookcase, I just leave my books lying around. My mom hates it.

>>9064933
A case for fiction, a case for non fiction then organise them loosely by favouritism. Who gives a fuck how they're organised, really.

I put all my everyman's together because I'm autistic.

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>>9064933
Upstairs library:
cases 1-2: adult prose fiction from 1800 AD sorted alphabetically by author's last name. Case 3 finishes that up with modern fiction anthologies, then children's lit alphabetically. Box sets and oversized editions are put on top, bottom shelf, or wherever they fit.
case 4: Classics and mythology, philosophy, folklore, occult, theology, magic, then medieval and post-medieval lit to 1800.
case 5: literary analysis, anthologies, essays, non-fiction, oversize, reference.
case 6: poetry.
case 7: Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian, print culture, etc.
case 8: children's lit analysis, drama, art books, photography, oversized.
case 9: music books.
Downstairs library is less organized:
Cases 1-5: Humor, genre fiction (SF, fantasy, horror, mystery, comics, graphic novels, film/pop-culture-related, gaming books.
Living room has one case of antique books.

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>>9064933
Why, how do you organize them?

Used to do so alphabetically. Now i put them chronologically

>Three bookcases of reference books about art, antiques, and jewelry roughly organized by subject. Recently used books are stacked on the floor.
>One bookshelf for fiction, roughly sorted by author
>One bookshelf for non-fiction, kind of sorted by subject
>A bookshelf of paperback scifi and fantasy books over the toilet in the bathroom

I need some more bookcases because most of the stuff I've got in the last year is starting to stack up on the stairs and it's becoming dangerous.

Realistically I should just haul almost everything besides the reference books to the used bookstore since I probably won't read it again.

>>9066978
>I need some more bookcases because most of the stuff I've got in the last year is starting to stack up on the stairs and it's becoming dangerous.

I also need to replace one of my reference bookcases. It's a cheap plywood bookcase and almost all the shelves are badly sagging from all the heavy ass reference books. I'm pretty sure it's going to collapse some day.

>>9065129
Lmao all those virgin spines

>>9065129
show me the drama case. i demand it.

>>9064933
>variety/purpose; eg, essays, fiction, poetry, home-improvement
>alphabetically by author
>alphabetically by title unless within a series

>>9064933
By their relevance to the mindstate that caused me to buy them. Usually it works and topics blend into each other sometimes it is non linear leading to discontinuities

>>9064933
Alphabetical, with graphic novels and folio size stuff at the end, and a hidden and disordered shelf of shame in my bedroom for shit I haven't read yet.

>>9067379
SHAME

>>9064933
Alphabetical

but got dayum >>9066942 I love the idea of chronologically. That's like some Borgesian literature stands on the shoulders of literature shit

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>>9064933

I just do whatever.

Seems spergy to "organize" them, and I am already plenty sperg enough, thank you.

>>9065129
What are the pages in the bottom-right?

>>9064933
what's a bookcase? i have a bookshelf.

>>9064933

In general: subject - alpha - author - title, with given subjects/types of books that bear some certain relationship with each other being organized closely together, or in an otherwise logical fashion. Big, heavy art books are grouped together on the bottom of the shelf for stability. Above these are science textbooks, the next heaviest items. Above there are some fiction - history - philosophy sections, all alike in that they are prose works in smaller volumes, and not directly related to the sciences. Next to philosophy is a religion/occult section, with the big abrahamic texts and apocrypha at extreme top left of the whole business.

>>9064933
Color.

>>9065129

that blue wall paint is really not to my taste

>>9066880
Lmao why the fuck would tattoo that on your skin?

>>9064933

In binary

>>9067192
Don't be ridiculous. Even if I was some filthy abuser of bindings, the photos aren't nearly clear enough for you to determine which books have been read.

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>>9067281
My drama section is tiny, really: just this one shelf.

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>>9067777
What? Nice quads, but that title is just painted on the spine of a custom vellum binding. The "skin" is calfskin.

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>>9067449
It's a display table from Ikea with some old manuscript/printed pages in it (Kelmscott Press, Doves Press, old German engravings, a hymnal). I can post details if you like.

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>>9067506
Sounds very similar to my system.

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>>9067701
Well, that's okay. You don't have to visit. Personally that Greek white/blue combo makes me happy every time I step in there.

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>>9064933
By shape because I'm a barbarian

Theme
Then by theme again
Themes whitin themes.

The themes is often nationality/or subject nation
(I have a bunch of books about china)
The ones I don't really care about I just dump them according to theme too

I also have a "big novels" section.
That has large books
Starting with russians,then czechs then hungarians,germans and finaly latins and spanish.

>>9064933
Poorly

>>9067601
This. Objectively best.

>>9070269
A system that requires you to recall the binding of any book you want to find, that makes it practically impossible for anyone else to find a specific book, that separates books by the same author, or on the same subject, that destroys browsing logically and makes no sense other than arguably aesthetic is "objectively the best"? From almost any sensible point of view, it's the dumbest possible way to organize books.

>>9064933
I actually rip aout all the pages from each book and organize them alphabetically by their first letter

>>9064933
>Non-journalistic non-fiction and religion/mythology
By Category. general history topics are done in chronological order, or close to it.
>fiction and journalistic non-fiction
Author last name; by release date for each author

>>9064933
For fiction, by country of author's origin, then by author's year of birth. No real sorting within the oeuvre of an author yet. Some that I want to read soon are separated off into the bedroom shelves.

For non-fic, still kind of randomly. I've got religion & myth, then philosophy, then travel fiction, history, cooking-related, hobby-related and art. Non-fic related to books and literary criticism goes in the bedroom.

Anthologies also go in the bedroom, no real organization atm.

Children's books are organized by reading level, with the easiest ones on the bottom row.

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>>9071556

I don't.

>>9064933
Separate paperbacks and hardcovers, separate by fiction, general nonfiction, philosophy, plays, and poetry. And then all sections alphabetized author - title.

>>9064933
Language, topic, chronological

>>9064933
Dewey Decimal System, of course.

>>9064933
Is that panel by kirby?

Also, philpsophy, religious texts, poetry, and novels.

>>9071606
>Is that a panel by kirby?
Yep. From a storyline in Thor's comic.

Dong length of author.

>>9064933

Chronological order

>>9064933
By topic/time period (Greeks, Romans, the Enlightenment, 19th century literature, etc.)

>>9073487
Nice b8. Subtle.

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I just alphabetize.