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"While not answering prayers or sending plagues, God enjoys spending time in His garden. Besides writing, He is also well known for giving voice to donkeys and creating the world."
quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: My copy of the Book of Mormon is in between my Bible and my copy of the Koran (no offense) in the fiction section of my book shelves.
No offense to whom? I certainly don't take offense if you have a Book of Mormon next to a Koran.
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quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: "While not answering prayers or sending plagues, God enjoys spending time in His garden. Besides writing, He is also well known for giving voice to donkeys and creating the world."
quote:Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_: My copy of the Book of Mormon is in between my Bible and my copy of the Koran (no offense) in the fiction section of my book shelves.
No offense to whom? I certainly don't take offense if you have a Book of Mormon next to a Koran.
It was that I have it in the fiction section.
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When I organize my books, I organize non-fiction by subject; poetry by date; plays by country, then by date. I organize fiction into genre and then "literature" (written before I was born) and contemporary (written during my lifetime) and then alphabetical by author. There is also some organization by whether the book is hardcover or paperback to squeeze in more books.
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Didn't this thread used to be about the musical play "The Book of Mormon"?
I organize by fiction/nonfiction, then by genre, then by author. I have separate shelves for paperback and hardback.
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I'm reminded of that Stephen Wright bit where he claims that his socks match because he goes by thickness.
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quote:Originally posted by mr_porteiro_head: Welcome to Hatrack.
Thanks? You missed welcoming me by six years with this name, and prolly fifteen or so by my first incarnation.
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I just listened to the soundtrack, and honestly I came away from it with a higher opinion of Mormonism (or at least unchanged) than I had beforehand.
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I've gotten a decent sense of what Mormons think of (or don't think of) the play.
What do people who have lived extensively in Uganda think of this? (perhaps broadened to "anyone who's lived in extremely poor third world conditions")
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Organizing by color makes perfect sense. I buy a book, read it, and then put it on the shelf. When I want the book again, I picture it, and I therefore go straight to where it is shelved, because I can remember the color easier than title font or size, and it requires less maintance than organizing alphabetically by subject or author.
This only works when 1) the spine is the same color as the cover, and 2) I read all the books before shelving them, but that happens the vast majority of the time.
The exception are school books, and that's why all the classical texts and histories are on their own bookshelf.
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quote:Originally posted by Aerin: Organizing by color makes perfect sense.
To you.
To me, it makes roughly about as much sense as if you organized alphabetically by the first letter on the tenth page of each book.
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Sure. When I want a book, I picture the book. When they are by color, they are easy to find. Also, it looks better, and I am demonstrably happier when surrounded by order and beauty instead of disorder. The best part is the low maintenance - it takes very little to keep books organized by color, while it takes a great deal more work to keep them alphabetized.
If you don't remember what books look like or have lots of time or empty shelf space to enable subject/author sorting, then another method might make books easier to find for you. (Although less pretty.)
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Chalk me up as another "by color" person. I had no idea we were so numerous! I'd love to see pictures of other people's shelves. Do others also end up frustrated by the preponderance of red and blue and the distinct lack of green (true green; teal is very popular)? Or is that just a function of the genres I buy and shelve?
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I have a ton of blue but only a little red. I definitely have more green than red, which I am not sure why. I would imagine we buy similar genres - I don't know why I have more green then.
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quote:Originally posted by Aerin: I have a ton of blue but only a little red. I definitely have more green than red, which I am not sure why. I would imagine we buy similar genres - I don't know why I have more green then.
Well, I was a Japanese Studies person back in college, and I still have a lot of Japanese history and politics books, which almost invariably have red spines. So that's part of it. Wish I knew where you were getting the green from, though!
quote:Originally posted by kmbboots: But what about a series that had different colour covers? Would you split them up?
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One of the things I keep meaning to do on Goodreads, by the way, is to add "color--X" shelves to all the books I own, as an additional finding aid. But generally I don't have any trouble remembering where things are.
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Hardback series (e.g. Harry Potter) = split up
Paperback series (e.g. Discworld) = kept together in the ugly bookcase that I'm ashamed of in my bedroom (only because there is limited room in the living room bookcases, and SOMETHING had to give)
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Oh, I do have a separate set of shelves for books that can't be sorted by color (the ones whose spines are alternating green and orange stripes or whatever), and those, lacking any better system, are alphabetized.
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My uncolorsorted are organized roughly according to original publication date. Pratchett, Card, and Christie each get his or her own shelf.
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Alpha by author for me, then organized alpha by title within the the author (with series grouped together in order of publication, listed under the overarching name of the series). I've also done chronological within each author, and may do it again the next time I reorganize.
Kristy once had a shelving system that revolved around what she thought that the protagonists of the various books would think of each other. I can't imagine how that helped her find anything, but I'll bet it was fun to map out.
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I think I am going to re-organize my book shelf by the number of letters in the publishing company name, cross referenced with year of copyright. This is clearly more efficient than by genre-author-series.
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Okay, here is what you do, turn all your books around so the spine faces inward, and then organize them by thickness.
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Right away I can tell you that Wise Man's Fear will be at the thickest end of my book shelf. Rothfuss certainly doesn't make pocket friendly books.
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Do y'all genuinely not remember what color your books are? Quick - what's the color of your copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. I bet you remember.
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I really don't. It is either black and white or red. I am confusing it with Catcher in the Rye, I think. Even though I loved the first and did not love the second. But I got them at the same book sale.
ETA: Anyway, they are both on the paperback-written-before-I-was-born book case in the front room closet.
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I don't believe that. Just like we read by recognizing the shape of words before we read the letters, we recognize books on the shelf by the color before we read the spines.
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If I were looking at it, I would likely recognize it but I am not looking at it. I am not trying to recognize it; I am trying to recall it to memory.
And people process information differently.
And please stop calling me a liar. It gets tiresome.
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quote:I don't believe that. Just like we read by recognizing the shape of words before we read the letters, we recognize books on the shelf by the color before we read the spines.
Yeah, this varies heavily from person to person. I can't recall the color of numerous of my books, if I try to think of them. I can recall many other things about the books, but rarely the color unless the cover image was specifically striking to me (and most aren't), and not always even then.
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It's the "spine is one color, front cover is a completely different color" books that get me, every time. Dear publishers: please stop doing that :-(.
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