For those bibliophiles on my friends list

[madbaker]

...which is most if not all of you.

A bit ago someone made fun of me for how I organize my books. My method is that used by Chevy Chase in Caddyshack to compare against other golfers - by height.

Strictly speaking, I organize my books by (approximate) height and alphabetically by author. I do it that way not because I'm obsessive-compulsive (although to a degree I am, of course), but because it maximizes the number of books I can store on a bookcase. I have rarely had enough bookcases that I can shelve inefficiently...

So, a poll. How do you organize your books? I'm referring to intra-shelf organization; I have different shelves for my cookery books and my fiction, so "subject" doesn't count.

What I'm reading: Ursula Vernon, Digger vol. II

Comments

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

The last time they were organized (previous house) we did it alpha, but some were vertical (if large) and others were stacked horizontally (if short). This seemed to work very well.