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bestcee

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So, today, in case you didn't know like I didn't know, is Library shelfie day. The idea is to share how you store your books at home on the shelf.

I don't do anything special. Mine are simply by height and by series. Series overrules, so sometimes there is one that is not by height. Oh, I also have kids books separated from adult books. So, there is a little organization.

What about you? Do you have an organization to your books? Or are they just thrown on the shelf in whatever order they fit?
 
By topic. Or where ever there's space to fit a book on a shelf! lol!

I can only find things if I sort by topic, especially all my sewing/craft books because I have a gadzillion of them. Then I microsort. So, for Historical Costuming I divide between centuries, eras or decades. I have a special section for Swedish crafts, many of them I purchased in Sweden. All our various Harry Potter books have their own area, also softcover fiction. It works for me!
 
For the books I still have (donated many to an local AAUW fund raiser several years ago), I shelve them by author.

One small bookcase that matches the bedroom furniture has 3 shelves. 2 of them are John Jakes, Sandra Brown and Danielle Steele. 3rd shelf that is not really for books but for figurines and it has a few miscellaneous hard back books and some of my favorite Harlequin romance books from my youth.

The large bookcase in the living room has a lot of books that my parents collected along with my Nancy Drew mysteries and all of my Janet Daily books. I belonged to the Literary Guild in my 20's so collected hard back novels back then. The ones that I kept are also on these shelves.

The bookcase in my office has a mixture of things. Genealogy books, DVD's, CD's, knitting books, Cathy comic hardbacks, Agatha Christie and all my Dave Ramsey and Matthew Kelley books.
 
Well... the books I have remaining in print are by series (but they have to match either all hardcover or all paperback) and then the rest are just thrown in however they fit, mostly by height. The most important shelf of books is my bajillion Shutterfly 12x12 books and those are in chronological order of course. :giggle

The majority of my books are stored on my kindle though... so I can sort by title or author. :D
 
OMG! Books, we have too many. Between books for Nolan and scrapbooks, my husband says our house is going to sink. They are sort of all over, where ever they fit. I say I need more shelves, husband says I need less books!
 
Like @Karen , I have a gazillion Shutterfly books which are stacked in several places. The 12 inch books are so big, they don’t fit on most shelves. I have gotten rid of hundreds of book over the past few years and have saved only the travel books as resources for scrapping. These fit nicely on a shelf in my husbands office, but not in any real order.
 
Karen said:
The most important shelf of books is my bajillion Shutterfly 12x12 books and those are in chronological order of course. :giggle
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My scrapbooks have their own bookshelf/storage area and no where near the "library" books. LOL
 
Right now, my books are in three different locations: antique bar in our entry, small stack in the living room on a side table, and then a leaning tower of books by my computer.

The antique bar has glass cabinets and most of my faves or antique books are stored there. It also has two closed cabinet doors and that's where all my thrift store, estate sale, or book store purchases go for me to read.

The small stack in the living room is because I can no longer fit anything in the bar.

The leaning tower of books is because I can no longer fit anything in the bar, or in the small stack in the living room.

Also, I have ten books out from the library right now, so I'm reading, but nothing is leaving those shelves yet.

I should have started my post with: Hi, my name is Cheryl, and I'm a bookaholic. LOL
 
My recipe books are next to the microwave and they are in height order.
My scrapbooking things are in my office space, lying flat. My reading books also a little stack next to my bed.
 
I have books scattered all over the house. Mostly my books are shelved bykid/adult books, series/author, then by type/height ... and then there are the books in the plastic bins ...
 
I don't really have books anymore since I listen to all audiobooks. The bookshelf in our house is mostly my husband's & kids' books. My daughter has her books in her room and rainbow organized & it's so pretty!
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I have amassed 800 books on my Kindle over many years. I have access to an unlimited supply, as well. Thus, we have very few books. I do have a lot of layout books, however. They're all on shelves, in a long hutch and are covered by doors. I love having all of them lined up together, and open the doors, quite often to admire them.

We have a few cookbooks that are in the kitchen. I have one main cookbook that's a family recipe book and we use it the most. We print a lot of recipes off from the internet and keep them in a folder. I also have a slow cooker book. That's about all we have, cookbook wise, anymore.
 
Oh my ... where do I start :giggle. I have 8 bookcases so it's a bit crazy in here. I sort by genre first, then author, and then series order. My authors are sorted weirdly because all my favourites are in the centre of the bookcase, none of this alphabetical order for me ... I need creative stacking ability because of sheer volume :giggle. This is my book nook and the other book cases are scattered around the place (equally stuffed!)
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My husband keeps building me new shelves because books come into our house at a much faster rate than they go out. I have an 8-foot shelf in the dining room that's all kids' books - fiction on one side, non-fiction on the other, with the quarto books (atlases, etc.) and my kids' current "project books" (we homeschool) in the middle.

Then there's another shelf of books in the little boys' bedroom, for the books they like to read the most at bedtime. And the older boys have their own books in their room. My bedroom has a 12-foot shelf, with all the curriculums, educational research books, my writing and art books, poetry books, and a bunch of adult non-fiction stuff (mostly nature, education, Christian living, and parenting).

The shelves in the living room hold classics, biographies, and most of the fiction stuff that isn't kids' books.

A small shelf in the bathroom, cookbooks in the kitchen, and we still have stacks all over the house that drive my husband crazy. :giggle
 
We have a big(ish ) unit on the landing. There they are sorted by Author,if we have a lot of the same,or by genre if we don't. All craft books,cook books,and reference books,are on the bottom shelves because they are taller.
In the bed room we have a shelf each with "must read some day " and out bedside tables have stacks,in order we want to read them......
Guess we are organized....sort of...
 
I have at least one bookshelf in every room in our house. Every wall of my living room has bookshelves and they are pretty much floor to ceiling! I have them divided into sections. History, science, biography, self-help, religious, picturebooks, kids fictional chapter books (these are also organized by author), classics, cookbooks, music books, etc...

We pretty much have our own library...but I've been homeschooling for over 15 years so I've had lots of time to collect and make a pretty good library for my kids...and myself. Not to mention we check out a gazillion books from the library every couple of weeks.
 
It would undoubtedly shock my teen self, but I have few books anymore. Maybe not even 100. Although I still have a lot of old books from my teens and young adult years down in the basement on a couple of bookcases. I don't even know anymore because I've pretty much stopped buying paper books, instead using the library, Kindle, and Audible.

I do have a little bookcase here in my office nook that has one shelf with the photography books I bought in the last decade, and my scrapbooks. I organized those books by height; the scrapbooks chronologically.
 
I have two bookcases in my lounge/living room. All books are thrown on in whatever order they fit, although have tried to keep books by the same author together. One bookcase holds my books and the other one has my husbands, mine is full with no space. I also have a small 3 tier trolley upstairs with books on. I refuse to purchase anymore books now until I have space, been considering swapping to ebooks as well.
 
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