On Booking Through Thursday this week:
How do you organize/store your books? Do you go through them often? Or do you pretty much just shelve them and then leave them alone until you need them?
The second. I roughly organize them by genre, anticipated time I will read them. So I have one shelf all fiction/classics and part of one shelf for cookbooks. I also put the knitting books away on my desk or with the cookbooks.
Recently, I ran out of space for my books so I put some of those that I have read in the closet. I think for someone who has read over 800 books, I really don’t own a lot of them. I do buy used books to read, but for the most part, a lot of my books are one I bought because I read them already and wanted to keep them for future rereads.
I will organize them when I get new books and shift them around when I need to, but in general, I don’t really organize them by authors or anything like that.
How about you?
10 Comments
Ann
I keep my books on my bookshelves, but don’t organize them in any special way.
athena
Hi Ann! I am the same. I’ll shift them for the queue, but not much else. Thanks!
Juli @ A Universe in Words
Most of my books are also those I’ve read and want to reread or books I thought I’d like and never actually got round to reading. I’m getting rid of the latter category now that I’m moving out! When I settle down somewhere in the next 10 years I will hopefully have worked out a proper organisation scheme! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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athena
Hi Juli! I am the same. I have a lot of books that look good but that I haven’t read yet. I also moved once and got rid of that category too. I hated that! I don’t like giving books away unnecessarily. ha. Thanks for commenting!
gautami tripathy
We all shelve books in our own way!
Here is my post!!
athena
Indeed we do Gautami. Thanks for the comment.
Tribute Books Mama
We all have our own way of doing things, if you have volume it’s hard to keep up.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/09/booking-through-thursday_13.html
athena
Hi Tribute Books Mama, it is hard to keep up, but we do it out of our love of books. Thanks for commenting!
Lizzy
700 books. I’m so jealous! I wish I had that much room.
athena
Hi Lizzy! I’m not sure where you got the number 700. I don’t even own 100 books, but I have read over 800 in my time. I wish I had that much room too! Thanks for commenting.