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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[–] Pazintach@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm trying to sort them by languages first, then by genres. But I'm terribly at organizing, and not having enough space, many are mixed up. Also, I wish I have the space for more than one real shelf. Half of my books are in boxes.

Like, Sci-Fi in my native language should be in the back roll of the shelf, but some of them are here and there. Non-fictions should be in the front and lower roll of the shelf, but other languages are in boxes, bedside, and desktop shelf, so basically everywhere… And books by one author but in different translations are stored in different places, it's slightly frustrating. Now I thought about it, maybe I shouldn't separate them by languages.

[–] dresden@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

Depends on how you read, if your reading decision is based on language as well as genre, then separating them by language is a good idea, otherwise you can just mix them up.