Shelf-absorbed: nine ways to arrange your bookshelves.
Whether you alphabetise your books, hoard them or make sure your most intellectual tomes are in sight for Zoom calls, these displays reveal a lot ...
Tim Dowling
Me.
Fiction
1. Genre.
2. Authors last name.
3. Series title.
Non fiction
1. Subject
2. Book title
Reference
1. Spine color
A lot of my shelving is determined by the length of the book's spine and the height of the shelf. I have some vague-ish sections for subject I have a lot of books about β Buddhism, math, etc. β but they're pretty sketchy.
I used to have a "business" section, but business is none of my business at this point.
I usually attempt to keep books by one author together, but it's frequently unfeasible. Buckminster Fuller's "Tensegrity" books are gigantic, "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" is a little mass-market paperback.
The largest single book I own is the "Codex Seraphinianus".
The largest single book I own is a pre-World War II, Websters unabridged international dictionary. It was my moms..
I also own the Oxford unabridged, in micro print.
I'm pretty sure the LONGEST book I have has got to be "Tensegrity", that's two 900-1200 page volumes. I only have three volumes of "The Art of Programming", those run more like 500-600 pages. Collectively, Stephen Wolfram is giving Fuller and Knuth a run for their money.
@corlin
We had that for some time, but it proved to be something of a doorstop, and didn't survive some move or other.
I've got the "Compact OED" now. More practical.