Best Way to Organise books?

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How do you organize your bookshelf? Height? Color?

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I tried to do by author, but that didn't last long. Now my organization is wherever it fits.

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Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but now it's just whichever way fits the most.
I need a new bookshelf.
Maybe two new bookshelves."

We have the same issues with shelving😂

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I do it by height.

[☕️hannah☕️]

i organize by genre and height usually

[Isabelle]

Genre and height for me, as well. I always group series together.

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Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but now it's just whichever way fits the most.
I need a new bookshelf.
Maybe two new bookshelves."

If you go by size and do taller books on a shelf and shorter books on another, you can fit more above them. I have learned this from experience.

[☕️hannah☕️]

same Isabelle

[Isabelle]

Concinnous wrote: "Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but now it's just whichever way fits the most.
I need a new bookshelf.
Maybe two new bookshelves."

If you..."

...Above them?

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Concinnous wrote: ".If you go by size and do taller books on a shelf and shorter books on another, you can fit more above them. I have learned this from experience."

but if you take a book out from under another book it''ll fall through and mess up the whole thing.

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Isabelle wrote: "Concinnous wrote: "Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but"

"...Above them?"

Yeah, like, sideways.

[Isabelle]

Concinnous wrote: "Isabelle wrote: "Concinnous wrote: "Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but"

"...Above them?"

Yeah, like, sideways."

This might be the topic I get snobby about

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Isabelle wrote: "This might be the topic I get snobby about."

Yeah same...

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Isabelle wrote: "Concinnous wrote: "Isabelle wrote: "Concinnous wrote: "Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but"

"...Above them?"

Yeah, like, sideways."

Thi..."

Well if I had more shelves I could fit them nicely. I, unfortunately, don't have the space for all 500 of my books.

[Isabelle]

Concinnous wrote: "Isabelle wrote: "Concinnous wrote: "Isabelle wrote: "Concinnous wrote: "Carsie Rose wrote: "Well I used to d it alphabetically by authors name, and then by title, but"

"...Above them?"

Yeah, like..."

5...500? Daaaaaaaaaang.

[Arianna]

My dad had to buy me another bookshelf and yet I still can’t fit them. Some are on the floor, some are under my bed, in my dresser, on my dresser, and whatever I can fit is are on my shelves

[Isabelle]

I think I might have 100. Maybe.

[Arianna]

Isabelle wrote: "I think I might have 100. Maybe."

I have roughly 300 physical books, but a lot of books I read online

[Isabelle]

Actually, I take that back. I just went and did a rough count, there were about 90 on my main shelf...and 3 or 4 boxes in my closet that I forgot about.

[Arianna]

Isabelle wrote: "Actually, I take that back. I just went and did a rough count, there were about 90 on my main shelf...and 3 or 4 boxes in my closet that I forgot about."

Lol

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Isabelle wrote: "Actually, I take that back. I just went and did a rough count, there were about 90 on my main shelf...and 3 or 4 boxes in my closet that I forgot about."

How do you manage to forget 3 or 4 boxes full of books?

[Isabelle]

Concinnous wrote: "Isabelle wrote: "Actually, I take that back. I just went and did a rough count, there were about 90 on my main shelf...and 3 or 4 boxes in my closet that I forgot about."

How do you manage to forg..."

I do not know.

[Book - Dragon]

Oh, I just stick them in my shelf wherever.....

[Hailey]

I organize them alphabetically, but sometimes I stack them from smallest (top) to biggest (bottom).

[Alison]

Book wrote: "Oh, I just stick them in my shelf wherever....."

Saaaaaame lol

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I'm a neat freak so I do alphabetically by the authors last names...

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⁓ Gracel ⁓ wrote: "I'm a neat freak so I do alphabetically by the authors last names..."

I tried to do that, but it didn't last long. My siblings borrow my books a lot and always put them in the wrong spot. Plus I have too many at this point to hope for any organization.

[Book - Dragon]

I used to have them organized by genre, but now....EXPLOSION!

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Carsie Rose wrote: "I only have around 100 books (my bookshelf is small and I only buy my absolute favorites)"

Only 100 absolute favorites😂
Every bookworm in the world!

[Isabelle]

And that's just the absolute favorites

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I need to get a real book shelve. I just moved so most of my books are in boxes....

[Carina]

I used to have three bookcases, but the third one took up too much room so now I have two. The larger one I use for fiction and I sort the books alphabetically by author, with one mini-shelf set aside for my Tales of Goldstone Wood series. My other, smaller bookcase is non-fiction, and I sort the top shelf alphabetically by author, the middle shelf is for notebooks, and the bottom shelf is for Bibles and devotionals.

A small percentage of my books are actually on my bookshelves, most of them are either in storage (which I’m planning on going through this year) or in a digital format.

Does anyone else when they’re watching a YouTube video with a bookcase in the background stare at it for the whole time and try to read the spines? Or is it just me? 😛

It would be so cool if we could post pictures of how we organize on here! But I’m not sure if that’s possible or how to do that, other than putting it on our profiles… 🤷‍♀️

[Isabelle]

Carina wrote: "I used to have three bookcases, but the third one took up too much room so now I have two. The larger one I use for fiction and I sort the books alphabetically by author, with one mini-shelf set as..."

Yep, it's interesting to see their collection and how they sort