How do you anons organize your books???I'm trying to organize my books by genre, but I have too many books to organize and it just feels like a total mess at this point...Should I even care if my books are organized? Am I just autistic?Also I want to ask how do you anons maintain your books/shelf. Do you do anything other than dusting to preserve your books? I'm trying to keep my books in the best condition possible, because I don't want them looking like shit.
>>25219108By colour.
>>25219111based
>>25219108Dusting them is good, yes. I'd also recommend getting some whole cloves to keep away any insects from eating the pages and keep the temperature of the room as "dry" as possible so the pages won't get permanently bent
>>25219108I went through that he'll a few weeks ago.Publisher, author, size, thematic. Don't stick to one method, is otherwise you will go crazy.
bro just put them wherever its not that deep lul
>>25219108Fuck this shit, I wasted my life rearranging my shelves over and over. I'm selling all that shit and getting a Kobo.
>>25219108Unironically I have them in genres by shelf. So depending how many shelves, I’ll put the religious works at the top and the genre fiction on the bottom shelves, second from top will be philosophical works and the like, below that non-fiction like history and biographicals. It helps if you’re trying to find something, it’s why libraries have a system based on genre
>>25219108Look up seriationYou could do worse than to start at https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/sorting/seriation/indexBasically minimize the distance between adjacent books
>>25219131How does garlic help?
I randomly throw the book I finished in the general direction of my bookshelf. It werks.
>>25219142Kot
>>25219108On top the collected works. The are usually bigger and it would look strange if they stand next to the others. Below random fiction books. Below that politics. Below that everything that doesn't fit in the other shelf compartments. Books I usually want to grab and read something pretty quick on the windowsill right by my desk. so I don't have to stand up. One random shelf with stuff I don't read anymore. Containing old self help stuff and other stuff, like Alan Watts, Stoics, Robert Greene, health and mindset shit. Everything that doesn't fit in any of those 3 places, I just pile on my dresser. I dust them from time to time. I stopped organizing the books in a more specific way. I am always annoyed when I would buy a new book and had to reorganize everything. Nobody but me uses these books anyway. And I can locate every book I own instantly. The only thing that really annoys me is when a very thin and tall book stands next to smaller and wider books. Huge sudden jumps annoy me very much.
