My resolution this year is to organize my library. Most of my collection is nonfiction, so I’ve started working on putting everything in order by Library of Congress style. The number of books is probably in the low thousands - I think another mission might be to catalog them while I’m at it.

Any tips or suggestions? If you have a larger collection, how do you organize and catalog your books?

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In the past I used alphabetical order, when I was a book collector, I also used to sort them by publisher and year of publication. All of that is long gone.

I trimmed my collections to... the mere shadow of itself, and now organize them by their importance to me (the dearest are closest to me, easier to pick from either of my two usual reading spots), and by... affinity between books.

I would not want to mix authors and books that can't have an interesting conversation together (even if not always polite). And I like to think it makes good company for Woolf, Proust, Flaubert and Tolstoy to be sitting together when I'm not reading them. Or for Dick, Gibson, Stephenson and Rucker to keep company to one another ;)