Organizing Bookshelves

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]