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mizarchivist+ the house is less dusty
+ the stacks of new books were put away
+/- this meant re-arranging the primary bookshelves. Who knew there really was that much room?
- Um, OW?! I went to bed feeling like I was catching the flu from the sore back and throat. However, really it can all be chalked up to dust and shifting the books
- The living room shelves are in need of its maker's attention, as Tolkien is holding up Gaiman.
+ M. and K. did a huge amount of work to make the house look pretty over the past few days, for which I am very grateful and happy.
+ When I take off work on Friday, theoretically I will not need to spend the entire day cleaning.
+ I started my own catalog on LibraryThing (under name DeadMuppetHouse).
? [rhetorical] Why did it take me 4 years to alphabetize the hardbacked novels?
? [ " ] Will I be satisfied with my own variation of Dewey for arranging non-fic? I have to work around space restrictions, but overall I'm grouping by subject area over alphabetic: mystical, religious, philosophical; histories by geographical designation and/or topic (ex: women's), memoir/biography (will be alphabetic- space permitting), Kaboom! (M's new collecting is mostly on sharp shooters and weaponry, proabably will be aplhapbetic as well).
Such-said books are all downstairs where the hard backs and interesting conversation starters live. Upstairs are mostly paperbacks in the guest room, as the shelving is fixed and for that size. Upstairs hall is pretty much everything else that's not terribly oversized, while the coffeetable books and the like are in the behemoth case in the computer area.
In a perfect world, I'd have more wall space for bookshelves and it that space I'd fill them with shelves that match the living room one.
+ the stacks of new books were put away
+/- this meant re-arranging the primary bookshelves. Who knew there really was that much room?
- Um, OW?! I went to bed feeling like I was catching the flu from the sore back and throat. However, really it can all be chalked up to dust and shifting the books
- The living room shelves are in need of its maker's attention, as Tolkien is holding up Gaiman.
+ M. and K. did a huge amount of work to make the house look pretty over the past few days, for which I am very grateful and happy.
+ When I take off work on Friday, theoretically I will not need to spend the entire day cleaning.
+ I started my own catalog on LibraryThing (under name DeadMuppetHouse).
? [rhetorical] Why did it take me 4 years to alphabetize the hardbacked novels?
? [ " ] Will I be satisfied with my own variation of Dewey for arranging non-fic? I have to work around space restrictions, but overall I'm grouping by subject area over alphabetic: mystical, religious, philosophical; histories by geographical designation and/or topic (ex: women's), memoir/biography (will be alphabetic- space permitting), Kaboom! (M's new collecting is mostly on sharp shooters and weaponry, proabably will be aplhapbetic as well).
Such-said books are all downstairs where the hard backs and interesting conversation starters live. Upstairs are mostly paperbacks in the guest room, as the shelving is fixed and for that size. Upstairs hall is pretty much everything else that's not terribly oversized, while the coffeetable books and the like are in the behemoth case in the computer area.
In a perfect world, I'd have more wall space for bookshelves and it that space I'd fill them with shelves that match the living room one.
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Organizing books in almost the first thing I do in a new house. Whioch was *insane* when I first moved to Atlanta - because Adam's books were in no particular order. And, well... you'll see how many books we have. We have a LOT.
I spent three whole days just alphabetizing, merging the libraries, and shelving. Not three days after work - three *whole* days. And it would've been longer, save that *I* pack *my* books in order (save for oversize hardcovers).
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We have The Library - the longer part of our big L-shaped living room - and that's fiction and graphic novels. The dining room holds anthologies and most of the nonfiction. The rest of the nonfiction lives in my office and Adam's office - save for Elayna's nonfiction, which is in her room with the rest of her books.
Mythology and folklore are packed for the move already.
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Then, given the urgency of packing the books for the last move, they were not packed in any real sense of order. And they haven't all been unpacked yet (some are still in storage). Of what has been unpacked, only paperbacks (thank you
I suspect I'm going to try to make more progress on it this week....
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And there is the matter of cataloging.
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Sharpshooters, Marksmen, snipers
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I only have two kinds of books, really: sci fi and reference. I have maybe 40 novels that I've picked up here and there that aren't sci fi, half of those being Agatha Christie mysteries from airports.
I usually don't have trouble with alpha by author, except for those annoying oversized paperbacks by authors that I already have several books by. (Sheri S. Tepper and Iain M. Banks are my most egregious offenders, and right now the two of them have their own shelf, while all the other paperbacks are in your archive boxes.)
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*headdesk*
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I agree that "trade" paperbacks are a PITA. I try to get my series in either all one size: trade, papber back, hard cover- Pref. on paper back for most fiction, except Harry Potter.
same brain?