firecat: hello kitty reading a book (reading hk)firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote,
@ 2012-04-22 10:02 pm UTC
Crossposts:http://firecat.livejournal.com/762282.html
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/03/bookshelf-heaven-awesome-containers-for.html

I discovered by looking at this post that I don't really approve of organizing books by the color of their spines.

Also, "a deeply comforting amount of books that we will never be able to read in its entirety in our lifetimes"? I saw maybe one image that had that many books.

I like the stretchable ones toward the bottom of the page, which are also discussed here:
http://gizmodo.com/5100849/platzhalter-bookshelf-splits-to-store-extra-books

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[personal profile] elainegrey
2012-04-23 01:45 pm UTC (link)
We have a "share books" bookshelf in the office, and i made the top shelf a gradient of colors one day waiting for lunch to heat. It has stayed that way a long time, so perhaps the next time i'm waiting alone for my lunch to zap, i'll jumble the books into a different order.

While my design mind likes many of those shelving units, most of my reaction is that what i really want is very dense but accessible storage.

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[personal profile] firecat
2012-04-23 05:50 pm UTC (link)
Apparently I think organizing one shelf by color is fine but organizing a whole collection that way isn't.

I organize mine by general category, then size comes into it because I can get more on a shelf that way.

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[personal profile] elainegrey
2012-04-24 03:09 pm UTC (link)
I decided i'd start organizing the office book-trade shelf by publication date. (It's always possible someone else will put it back in color order: i can't believe it's stayed ordered that way so long.)

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[personal profile] firecat
2012-04-24 07:58 pm UTC (link)
:-)

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