I had started to sort by color in our bedroom bookshelf, but then Susie decided to dismantle it for some reason. (It’s okay; I’d only ever gotten half-way done with it.)
I’d really like to come up with a better organizational system for our books. We don’t have a ton—maybe a thousand—but sorting them gives me mild OCD pleasure. There are programs out there like Delicious Library, but I don’t think I want to drop $40 on software just to index all my junk, especially since I don’t intend to engage in any book swapping. Library Thing is much cheaper, just $10 a year or $25 for a lifetime membership (and it’s web-based, which is probably better for this sort of thing), but typing in each book by hand, then trying to sort them into some sort of indexed array just sounds like too much trouble.
I think I’m going to go back to color—it’s about as good as any other system and much prettier.
reading rainbow [Magpie and Cake]
that’s a killer idea. the photo looks great.
Slightly off topic, but where is a place to obtain quality bookshelves? I’m looking to do some literary posing this spring.
We don’t have any hard-and-fast rules for our ~800 books. Instead, the bookshelves in various rooms have themes. Kids books are on one bookshelf, popular fiction another, paperbacks are kept separately, and non-fiction tends to be together.
We have some mixture or leakage, but overall it woeks fine. I generally know which bookcase (and often shelf) to go to when looking for a book.
Try getting a hold of some kind of barcode -scanner, or barcode -”pen”; -I’d guess you could just sweep over the books’ barcodes with one of those and just find some kind of software that knows how to recognize them; -perhaps even grab the IMDB/barcode -data from Amazon, or whereever..
:)
-Good luck, anyways..
..That should really read *ISBN*, naturally; (-IMDB can safely be left out of this project entirely, as you’d initially suspect..) ;)
A friend of mine, and an Author just set up his Library-Thing account. He used a barcode scanner to read in the info right into the program.
More info on how he did it: http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2007/03/19/library-thing/
Friends of mine have been very happy with Readerware (http://readerware.com/) over the years. Then again, they are extensive readers, with thousands of books, comics, graphic novels, etc.