Let’s see, Sci-fi on the top shelf, computer books, philosophy books, with math and physics books on the bottom. Well, that’s the way it should be but… Not quite.
In the order they were in when you took them out of the boxes and stuffed them into the bookcase after you moved. I don’t bother with a system. I just remember roughly where each one is. Yes, I can remember the locations of a couple of hundred books. I can remember the locations of a few hundred books in the Barr-Smith library in 1967. I can remember the locations of a few books in the Stockholm public library when I popped in for about half an hour in 1975. I can’t remember what my wife asked me to get from the shops today.
That means she took off the dust covers, which is plain wrong. I think Reese Witherspoon said in her autobiography that she does that. It’s stupid and means you don’t care about what books you have. They just become decoration.
In grade school we had a multiple choice test on the library. For “How are books organized in the library?” the obviously wrong answer was, “By size and color.”
Comics by title and original issue #, Nero Wolfe mysteries by publishing date, WWII aviation by theater of operation and alphabetic by title, Auto racing by era, and WWI aviation by size and colour.
I use the Dewey Decimal System (I have an MLS degree, though I am not and have never been a librarian) except for my science fiction collection, which is separated out due to its size. Otherwise, it would rather overwhelm the 800s.
Color organization would be a challenge. Going from left to right and down would be messy. Worse if you have more than one bookcase (and who does not have more than one bookcase?). I think that an ombre accross all shelves, Black to violet on top through the rainbow to red on the bottom.
Eight bookshelves of books on ancient Egypt, all piled to the ceiling. A lot are elephant folios = 24" tall, so they don’t fit on the shelves and have to be stacked in front of a bookcase.
I have faced the fact that I will never be able to move.
This has been a hilarious conversation!! Who would’ve thought the idea of how one sorts his books on a shelf would generate all this. I don’t imagine Pastis will even bother reading this stuff!
I’ve noticed that only Goat and Pig regularly date females, (I’m counting Pigita) I don’t want Rat to have anything to do with females, I’m afraid he might reproduce.
I actually do something similar to this very day. My music CD collection is separated by genre (alphabetically). Then, within each genre, alphabetized by artist. THEN, within each artist, arranged by release date.
Mr and Mrs Harwell in the British mystery novel “Thrones, Dominations” live in an apartment that’s pretty much a hotel. “The management even keep the cocktail cabinet fully stocked for us; we don’t have a large one, of course, just a very neat design in walnut with a built-in wireless set and a little shelf for books.” The people to whom they explain this convenience live differently. (It’s not mentioned whether the management supply the books. I can imagine it.)
Chapter one is given here.https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sayers-thrones.html
C over 1 year ago
A text book case of racism
BasilBruce over 1 year ago
I have to agree; everybody knows that books should be arranged by height.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Which also explains why she got fired from her job at the library.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
you can’t judge a date by their covers…
hariseldon59 over 1 year ago
At least she owns books.
DennisinSeattle over 1 year ago
Four identical panels. I organize mine by subject. I have a bookcase devoted to gardening.
carlsonbob over 1 year ago
Must be a reader with OCD
Qiset over 1 year ago
Let’s see, Sci-fi on the top shelf, computer books, philosophy books, with math and physics books on the bottom. Well, that’s the way it should be but… Not quite.
Robin Harwood over 1 year ago
In the order they were in when you took them out of the boxes and stuffed them into the bookcase after you moved. I don’t bother with a system. I just remember roughly where each one is. Yes, I can remember the locations of a couple of hundred books. I can remember the locations of a few hundred books in the Barr-Smith library in 1967. I can remember the locations of a few books in the Stockholm public library when I popped in for about half an hour in 1975. I can’t remember what my wife asked me to get from the shops today.
Uncle Kenny over 1 year ago
https://d2p7wwv96gt4xt.cloudfront.net/G/86C2EEB0/EAN-9789112136814
Cornelius Noodleman over 1 year ago
My brother’s books are full of teeth marks.
TheronStanford over 1 year ago
“The Last Bookstore” in Los Angeles organizes some of the upstairs shelves like that.
DamSkippy over 1 year ago
That means she took off the dust covers, which is plain wrong. I think Reese Witherspoon said in her autobiography that she does that. It’s stupid and means you don’t care about what books you have. They just become decoration.
Ermine Notyours over 1 year ago
In grade school we had a multiple choice test on the library. For “How are books organized in the library?” the obviously wrong answer was, “By size and color.”
Imagine over 1 year ago
Don’t judge a lover by their book cover.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 1 year ago
The main problem was that they were ebooks.
markkahler52 over 1 year ago
Pearl before Swine and Big Nate books on their very own shelves
Procat Premium Member over 1 year ago
What is a book?
Mugens Premium Member over 1 year ago
Since I have run out of shelf space for my books, I just stuff them where I can at this point, order has nothing to do with it.
Geophyzz over 1 year ago
Comics by title and original issue #, Nero Wolfe mysteries by publishing date, WWII aviation by theater of operation and alphabetic by title, Auto racing by era, and WWI aviation by size and colour.
mrwiskers over 1 year ago
You gotta draw the line somewhere. /s
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
HA! Obsessive compulsive..
James Deveney Premium Member over 1 year ago
Some ‘chapter’ of autism?
SALUDADOG over 1 year ago
That’s why “Print is dead” (Egon, Ghostbusters)
uniquename over 1 year ago
That’s an interesting idea actually. Think of the art you could create.
JoshHere over 1 year ago
Books are disgusting. That’s one of the reasons I prefer e-books:
https://howtomurderpests.com/bugs-that-eat-books-paper/#:~:text=Why%20Books%20Attract%20Bugs%3F%201%20The%20paper%20contains,in%20your%20home%20before%20they%20infested%20your%20books
Gameguy49 Premium Member over 1 year ago
She’s just a cover-lover.
brick10 over 1 year ago
The color of the hard cover or the dust jacket?
Goat from PBS over 1 year ago
OK, who does that? At the very least, sort them alphabetically by title or author or something.
If nothing else, it probably looks satisfying.
ladykat over 1 year ago
I arrange mine by author, and then series within the author, if applicable.
wongo over 1 year ago
I organize mine by number of pages.
PoodleGroomer over 1 year ago
Books should be arranged by the price paid. Use a storage tub for garage sale books.
Smith Grabholz over 1 year ago
If she organizes her books she’s ahead of me.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Word Salad Harris arranges hers by the ones she hasn’t finished coloring in.
rshive over 1 year ago
With adjustable bookshelves, that can sometimes be tricky.
SusieB over 1 year ago
I organize by author or genre. I actually don’t hold on to many books anymore. I either give to Goodwill or take them to a used book store
royq27 over 1 year ago
With or without dust covers?
samclemens over 1 year ago
I use the Dewey Decimal System (I have an MLS degree, though I am not and have never been a librarian) except for my science fiction collection, which is separated out due to its size. Otherwise, it would rather overwhelm the 800s.
NickelAlloy over 1 year ago
Book lovers know where each and every book is on their shelves- it doesn’t matter how we organize them.
minty_Joe over 1 year ago
At least she didn’t go Ray Bradbury on those books.
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
Relationships are for chumps, anyways.
CaveCat87 over 1 year ago
What’s so bad about organizing books by their cover color?
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
What happens with the multicolored ones?
TwilightFaze over 1 year ago
Genre and alphabetical. Maybe I’m OCD, but that’s how I like it (Plus…I don’t have that many books).
Radish the wordsmith over 1 year ago
Long books won’t fit the shelf.
T... over 1 year ago
But then she eats the book…
MoeyTehr over 1 year ago
I’m with Goat on this one. Breakuppable offense!
david.reichert over 1 year ago
Color organization would be a challenge. Going from left to right and down would be messy. Worse if you have more than one bookcase (and who does not have more than one bookcase?). I think that an ombre accross all shelves, Black to violet on top through the rainbow to red on the bottom.
hawgowar over 1 year ago
Makes more sense than the Dewey Decimal System.
SteveR405 over 1 year ago
I guess that Dewey didn’t know about the Roy G. Biv system (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
zeexenon over 1 year ago
Maybe Billy Goat is too horny.
JLChi over 1 year ago
Eight bookshelves of books on ancient Egypt, all piled to the ceiling. A lot are elephant folios = 24" tall, so they don’t fit on the shelves and have to be stacked in front of a bookcase.
I have faced the fact that I will never be able to move.
swenbu Premium Member over 1 year ago
This has been a hilarious conversation!! Who would’ve thought the idea of how one sorts his books on a shelf would generate all this. I don’t imagine Pastis will even bother reading this stuff!
bookworm0812 over 1 year ago
I put mine wherever I dogammed feel like!
Bilan over 1 year ago
Just because someone’s a book lover, it doesn’t mean they actually read them.
Bilan over 1 year ago
What color scheme did she use, RGB or CMY?
The Waffles are my friends over 1 year ago
I do a combo deal of height and genre
knight1192a over 1 year ago
I’ve got to come up with a system for my physical books.
Komix Lover over 1 year ago
Arranging by thickness is the only correct way.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Picky, picky.
AwelCruiz over 1 year ago
I arrange mine by odor.
sergioandrade Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’ve noticed that only Goat and Pig regularly date females, (I’m counting Pigita) I don’t want Rat to have anything to do with females, I’m afraid he might reproduce.
LilPeruna over 1 year ago
I actually do something similar to this very day. My music CD collection is separated by genre (alphabetically). Then, within each genre, alphabetized by artist. THEN, within each artist, arranged by release date.
wiatr over 1 year ago
My wife was always posing my books around the house to look fashionable. Now they’re on shelves here gathered by topics as I prefer.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Horrors! By color? How unthinking. I arrange mine by height….
Robert Carnegie over 1 year ago
Mr and Mrs Harwell in the British mystery novel “Thrones, Dominations” live in an apartment that’s pretty much a hotel. “The management even keep the cocktail cabinet fully stocked for us; we don’t have a large one, of course, just a very neat design in walnut with a built-in wireless set and a little shelf for books.” The people to whom they explain this convenience live differently. (It’s not mentioned whether the management supply the books. I can imagine it.)
Chapter one is given here.https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sayers-thrones.html
donut reply over 1 year ago
I wonder about people who are interviewed on tv sitting in front of a lot of books. If it isn’t your home, who’s library are you at?
Doctor Go over 1 year ago
Former librarian here – yes, it is true – the Color Wheel has replaced the Dewey Decimal system as the book classification tool in many libraries…
Flatworm over 1 year ago
But, if you put the big ones at the end of each row, you can save yourself the price of bookends.
Swirls Before Pine over 1 year ago
I arrange my books by weight-per-page.