Bookshelf etiquette

So I've decided to reorganise my bookshelf because I'm nerdy cool like that, but I'm not sure how best to do it. So I turned to Google for inspiration* and here are my thoughts:

* Although when I Googled 'How to organise your books' the top suggestion was 'How to organise your life' which worried me a little bit.




BY COLOUR

Pros: makes you feel like this gif, looks amazing, makes everyone envious

Cons: difficult to find books, nightmare to organise, sorry to break it to you but not everyone can carry it off

Verdict: love it in theory, but not sure about it in practice




BY HEIGHT

Pros: appealing to the eye, makes your shelf balanced

Cons: nigh on impossible to find books, difficult to organise, don't blame me if you're judged for this

Verdict: don't really get the point of this one




BY PUBLICATION DATE

Pros: original, keeps books from a certain period together, you can tell people that you're a time lord

Pros/cons: visually mismatched

Cons: can be difficult to find books, a pain to organise, pretty useless if most/all of your books are contemporary, a bit sad if we're being honest

Verdict: do people actually do this?




BY GENRE

Pros: a classic for a reason, keeps series together, easy to find books

Pros/cons: visually mismatched

Cons: space-consuming to separate books into genres, can be difficult to classify some books, not very creative

Verdict: is it a library?




NO ORDER

Pros: don't have this unnecessary stress, extremely easy to organise, shows everyone how cool you are

Pros/Cons: visually mismatched, results in some hilarious book combinations

Cons: inordinately difficult to find books, may stress out people with less chill than you*, doesn't keep series anything together

Verdict: *deep breaths*

*Like me




BY AUTHOR

Pros: series stay together, easy to find what you're looking for, easy to organise*, can't really go wrong with this one

Pros/Cons: results in some amusing book combinations, visually mismatched

Cons: not very remotely original

Verdict: I agree with Bond. I like to do some things the old-fashioned way.**

* I find that singing the alphabet song out loud helps
** Just when you were thinking I'd lost the plot entirely with my gif choice



What are your thoughts?*

*I meant on organising your bookshelf, but feel free to let me in on any other interesting musings too.