Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BillGill Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [Meta] Wait, you sort your books how??? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:19:20 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 15:19:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a4c8644bf4217f8581d0adc9c76f8939"; logging-data="1359285"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18BlasH7QM/N3CuBoEExcx1JsPCoNhiH54=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jei/CO7GJoZl4YbbaClKyIEzMwA= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3090 On 7/15/2024 12:25 PM, Ahasuerus wrote: > On 7/15/2024 9:48 AM, Ted Nolan wrote: >> In article , >> Tony Nance  wrote: >>> >>> More signs of madness in this crazy world: >>> >>> I just ran across the results of a poll that asked 29,000 Americans >>> about their book-owning habits, and friends, I am shocked — shocked! — >>> to report that there are people who have absolutely no organizational >>> system whatsoever. Worse — worse, I tell you — there are some who sort >>> their books by color. Color! >>> >>> Here’s a link to the main source (published in October): >>> https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/47712-how-many-books-americans-own-and-how-they-organize-them >> >> I could read the link, I suppose, but I wonder how many people actually >> have a sufficient number of books such that they need to be organized. > > As a general observation, the viability of various organizational > systems depends on the number of books to be organized. What works > reasonably well for a few hundred books -- e.g. sorting by the author's > last name -- may be problematic for a collection with a few thousand > books and completely unworkable for a collection that contains tens of > thousands of books. Have you checked your local library lately? They do have thousands of books. They use a system that separates the books by class, first fiction and non-fiction. Then they separate the non-fiction according to the Dewey Decimal Code. The Fiction is separated into a number of sub classifications, such as General Fiction, Mysteries, Science Fiction, and of course Children's. Then within those categories they are sorted by the author's last name. I have a large personal library which I have sorted into 3 general classifications, General Fiction, Science Fiction, and non-fiction. The SF is the largest and the non-fiction is by far the smallest. Bill