How do you organize you bookshelf?
By ISBN
Too poor to buy phyical books.
I save them in a directory on my computer named `books/`. The naming convention I use is: <author>,<title>.<file extension> and I use hyphens to represent spaces. I do not capitalize anything, due to it making finding content more difficult.
From there I can use `bash` to easily sort through my documents.
Need all PDFs? `ls *.pdf`
Need anything by Wilson? `ls *wilson*`
I backup this directory regularly to a cloud service that I pay monthly for, and I encrypt each book using GPG prior to backing it up. My GPG keys remain on USB drives that I carry on my person.
Isbn
>>7354471
every single time some wise ass comes in and posts about his digital books. every fucking time.
>>7354482
*raises paw*
Aside from 'maybe' the encryption, there is nothing too technical in what xir wrote as to be gibberish for someone who applies the least effort into understanding it.
If it looks cool I will put it there.
>>7354518
>Xir
>A person that thinks very high of himself due to his financial status.
My financial status is actually quite unfortunate. In spite of it I decided to amass a digital collection of books.
>>7354445
Date of Publication (or, date of creation, like Maurice wasn't published until 71 but it's in the 1910s) my collection is really a visual representation of literature's decadent decay.
>>7354445
5 shelves:
1) Asian: Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, Vedic, Chinese classics
2) Classical (Greek / Roman): Philosophy, Plays, Historical
3) Western philosophy, Existentialism, Philosophical fiction
4) Political philosophy, Political fiction, Occult and Egoism
5) Classical literature
Everything else goes into the trash.Just kidding. I put the rest into boxes for the attic.
>>7354445
by genre
-fiction
--prose/narrative
---novel
---tale/story/fable
---comic
---...
--verse/poetry
-no fiction
--prose/narrative
---collected letters/epistles
---self portrait
---memories
---biography
---text book
---articles/papers
---essay
----history
----psychology
----sociology
----law
----linguistics
----philosophy
----politics
----...
--verse/poetry
>>7354482
he is just showing off some sysadmin-data mining techniques everybody can learn from https://www.youtube.com/user/briantwill/playlists
The Dewey Decimal System
>>7354445
Some according to the publisher - there's a series of classics that were published in my country by the same publisher, uniform design so those are all on their own shelves.
Some by genre - history, plays, theology etc get their own shelves.
Some by origin - russian and my own country's literature have their own shelves as well.
It sounds like a mess but it's much easier for me like this than trying to organize everything by a single system. Sorting them alphabetically could work as well but all my bookshelves are in different rooms so that'd be very odd.
Each category sorted alphabetically:
>fiction/drama
>poetry
>non fiction
>general science/humanities stuff
>geology
Obviously those last two shelves are pretty specific.
Tallest to shortest.
I don't have enough books to order them by genre or author.
By how they look on the shelf; I've tried alphabetical but due to differing sizes it just looked odd.
>>7354445
By what I use them for.
4 shelves
Marxism/Socialism/Anarchism
Economics and Finance
History/Politics (Mostly theory on the existance of the state)
Entertainment (Memoirs/Novels)
Tallest on the side and smallest in the middle.
By colour.
>>7354445
Fiction/non-fiction split. Anthologies along the bottom.
Fiction is sorted first by country of author's origin, then within that by date of author's birth. I don't really sort within an author's oeuvre. Japan's my largest section.
Still don't know how I should do non-fic. I only have about 100 there anyway.
>>7354471
why do you encrypt them?
also, find second hand books on amazon and ebay. You're not too poor.
Aside from manuals and stuff that isn't for general enjoyment, I sort my books randomly. I think it's the best way for a book to have no association with the books around it.
>>7355758
This
Ordering by physical size is the best
How many books do you guys have?
I currently have about 200 books, maybe more, looking forward to building my own little private library in the future
>>7355976
~1,000 if comics are included, 850 if not.
Just sort everything alphabetically, first by author, then by title. I've got roughly a thousand books and I like lending them to people, so it's easiest finding them this way.
>>7356529
>and I like lending them to people
Get out.
>>7356541
Why?
>>7355957
>Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies
>surrounded in books from Japan
>cant wake up.jpg
>>7356550
Personal experiences, you will either not get them back, or get them back in such a state their undistinguishable from from eachother.
By topic on shelves.
Philosophy
Russian literature
Science fiction
Christian
Other
>>7355459
>tfw googling filetype:xls phone title first last "@gmail.com"
Three shelves:
1) Fiction, poetry and plays.
2) History.
4) Politics, Philosophy and Theology.
All by the author's alphabetical names, the history section being layed out by the events' detailed chronological order.
>>7356687
Do you not have broad histories or cultural histories that don't focus on a specific event? I'm worrying how to arrange mine.
>>7356693
If it's broad as in a history of Europe in the last three centuries, for examle, then put it as 1800 as it starts from their. Literally, the first relevant, indepth section of a book is it's starting place imo.
>>7354471
>too poor to buy physical books
>cloud service that I pay monthly for
http://monumenttotransformation.org/atlas-of-transformation/html/c/classification/brief-notes-on-the-art-and-manner-of-arranging-ones-books-georges-perec.html
