#book organisation

[saltwaterandstars]

JOMP BPC - 14th September - Shelfie

These shelves are really high up - I can't reach the top one without standing on a chair - which means I rarely look at the books there. Maybe I should finally get round to putting all the books in the house in some kind of order and then these books would end up scattered through whatever system of organisation I settled on.

[astairwaytobooks]

Making a poll on book organisation, because my friend, who just reorganised her books, asked me to share any book organisation poll I ran across and I thought "why not make one myself". Happy new bookshelf @raisedtokeepquiet!

[laziestgirlintown]

#me

[paintedcrows-caws]

Front row seat to Alex Hirsch's InMotion London Talk!! Aaaa!! (The high quality close up photos were taken by the wonderful @stupidlittlespirit! Who was sitting with me and had a far better camera, haha)

You can watch the full thing here, recorded by the brilliant Topaz Animation!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_O7CMM67A&t=137s

[inkyrains]

TINY BOOKSHOP demo (2024) dev. Neoludic Games

[laziestgirlintown]

Well since you ask so nicely 😊📚

I've been finding new ways of organising my books for quite some time. I'm a librarian = I want my books searchable and findable. But I also love asymmetry. (I know most people want all books of a series the same size and together etc. I do not.) To me, asymmetry is good for the soul like forest bathing or watching the night sky. I love my bookshelves and I would die a bit if they were straight and predictable.

To those ends I've tried many systems of organisation! For instance: (Note: This is all about my novels. Non-fiction is by subject.)

Alphabetically by the first sentence of the book - sooo much fun to do, to get to reread the beginning of every book. Kinda falls on the findability though.

By authors' or books' interrelationships - started, but it fell on impossibility of completion and the fact that many books would need to stand in ten different places.

By the number of letters in the words of the title - kinda worked, but where to go with subtitles? The Hobbit - or?! - The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again?

By conceptual trilogies - I grouped them into trilogies (duologies, tetralogies etc) based on some kind of kinship. This was an age and a thousand books ago, but to give you an idea, The Master and Margarita with Good Omens, Watchmen with The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, etc. Could slide into organising by sub-sub-genres and by intertextuality. But again, one book often fits into several subgenres.

Geographically, Chronologically ... so many further questions ...

By the amount of books I own by the author: too symmetrical.

42 books each by every system. Because don't panic.

I tried by colour once. The amount of pale blue books leeched all the warmth out of the room so I gave it up before I finished, and it would have been to symmetrical anyway.

The system I have now: Backwards alphabetical by title 🥳 Titles ending in A first, ending in Z (well Ö in Swedish) last. To simplify, Matilda to Wizard of Oz. Pros for asymmetry: not all books by one author together, not all series with titles starting with, e g, Blood, together. Pros for findability: as long as I remember if I included the subtitle.

Most of my experiments are here: http://asymmetric-library.blogspot.com/

I have a question

[coolnonsenseworld]

Everybody has voting power! I have my own preference, but I'm really curious what would you chose! Let me know in the poll and don't forget to share so we reach 40 bundles sales! We are not that far!! If anything is unclear just let me know <3 Also, I imagine the button pin would do great on a grocery bag, I think it would associate for me with the calendar bundle, and therefore remind me to take the grocery list (written on the Klance seasonal to-do lists XD) mmezzy.bigcartel.com

[j-ayne]

Separating my unread books from the books I've read

[chuckbbirdsjunk]

[parasolemn]

[Image description: In the first image, Harry Du Bois, looking at Gaston Martin's sandwich, fails the check to ask if he can have it. Rhetoric says, "A man so principled about his sandwich calls for a principled approach. Time to get political." Harry, seeing his options, asks, "These options seem awfully fascist or communist - what if I don't wanna say them?" In the second image, Rhetoric takes Harry by the shoulders and tells him, "Say one of these communist or fascist things, or fuck off." Harry appears shocked. In the background, Volition raises a finger and says, "um". End ID.]

skilltober 3!! please forgive the mistakes (see: the fucked up text in the first image) my hands are sooo shaky lately so I'm blaming that. hyperfocusing on one spot without taking into consideration the rest of the image is also my specialty. i figured out why the lighting was weird in the last one though at least!!!

more rhetorics + my cat who decided to jump up and run away with my eraser in her mouth as soon as I had everything ready to take the photo

[cherryblossomsatsea]

Can’t stop thinking about modern!Rilla who starts a skincare brand with Una Meredith and they 100% make it to the top.

(Bonus points for Persis Ford marketing them all the way to the moon!)

[davidmahlercomics]

Woah this is so cool, my mini comic Food Magik in the G:Zines vending machine at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre!!

G:Zines is tied for my favourite zine fair, it's a monthly swap sell organised by a group of local legends who are doing so much for small press, zinemakers and emerging artists. I have such a blast every time I attend, and have been missing it so much the past few months while recovering from foot surgery! I'm zine deprived I TELL YA!

[straight-to-the-pain]

I didn’t get the maths autism or the science autism or even the fandom autism. I got the ‘reads up on the legal frameworks for prosecuting torture at 3am then resolves to make a letterboxd list of films containing torture according to the UN definition’ autism

[laziestgirlintown]

This "article" pushed The Guardian even further down in my regard. It's clearly written by an illiterate dumbass and the only good thing I can say is: at least they didn't publish it under Culture.

[thedungeonbat]

Finally Re-Organised my bookshelf. I really need more space

[communistkenobi]

I really need to get more into marxist god-building. As soon as I started reading a review of Lunacharsky’s writings on how Marxism evokes religious emotion and is basically scientific theology it was like discovering what i had believed but didn’t realise it