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You make it sound like I only have one Tom Send a noteboard - 24/11/2009 03:59:38 PM
The organisation is as follows (all bookcases are full, tall bookcases unless otherwise specified):

BEDROOM

Bookcase One:
Russian literature in Russian, organised chronologically starting with Pushkin. Books on the top of the bookcase held in place by Metropolitan Museum of Art Assyrian bull bookends are contemporary Russian literature and pop fiction as well as Russian fairy tales.

Bookcase Two (tall but very narrow bookcase):
Russian poetry in Russian (shelves one through three), biographies of Russians in Russian (remainder of shelf three), longer works from Silver Age Russian poets (including novels) (shelf four) and historical criticism (shelf five).

Bookcase Three:
Classic fantasy and childrens literature - Tolkien (including the 12-part Christopher Tolkien series of his father's drafts), C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, A.A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Kipling's Just So Stories, the Arthurian legends, the complete Sherlock Holmes, the Arabian Nights in six huge volumes and the complete Calvin and Hobbes (among a few other books).

Bookcase Four (short bookcase):
Poetry in English (top shelf), philosophy (middle shelf) and contemporary English-language fiction (bottom shelf), with psychology on the top of the bookcase between Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian ramshead bookends.

LIBRARY

Bookcase One:
Classic literature in English (all shelves, including books at top of bookcase between Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian sphinx bookends).

Bookcase Two:
political and economic theory and some philosophy (top shelf), assorted books on world civilisation (second shelf), assorted books on spirituality (third shelf), books on sex, drugs, rock and roll, the mafia, and other edgy subjects (fourth shelf), large oversized art books (lowest shelf).

Bookcase Three:
Foreign language books in Western languages and dictionaries, reference grammars, etc. for the same (top shelf and above bookcase between antique bookends), reference grammars, dictionaries and the like for languages of the former Soviet Union (Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Kazakh, Chechen) (second shelf), general reference works (third shelf), law books used on a regular basis (fourth shelf), more law books and general reference, mostly oversized (lowest shelf).

Bookcase Four:
All five shelves are exclusively Russian history.

Bookcase Five:
Books in Classical Greek and Latin (shelves 1-2), grammars, reference works and academical works regarding the same (shelf 3), occult and esoteric works (shelves 4-5).

Bookcase Six:
History of Religion and Western Religious Criticism, including books in original languages (top shelf), late Egypt and Mystery Religions (second shelf), Ancient Egypt generally (third through fifth shelves)

Bookcase Seven:
Judaica (top shelf), the Zohar (occupies entire second shelf), Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic grammars and books on Islam (third shelf), Sumeria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia and books on their languages (fourth and fifth shelves).

Bookcase Eight:
Western History in chronological order (all shelves, though the lower shelf is not chronological but for oversized books)

Bookcase Nine:
Non-Western History (India, Persia, China, Tibet, Mongolia, Indonesia, Mesoamerica, North America) and my encyclopedia of exploration.

Bookcase Ten (short bookcase):
The Wheel of Time (top shelf), Dungeons & Dragons books and modules (remainder of bookcase).

Bookcase Eleven (short bookcase):
Fantasy and Sci-Fi exclusively

Dictionary Stand:
Full-sized Latin and Ancient Greek dictionaries (top shelf), Old and Middle English reference grammars, dictionaries and books in the same, as well as a few Irish grammars (middle shelf), Non-Western languages reference grammars (bottom shelf).

BASEMENT

Three short bookcases of overflow and crap.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 24/11/2009 at 04:01:31 PM
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How do you organise your bookshelf? - 24/11/2009 10:57:57 AM 2028 Views
Alphabetically. Easier to find what I'm looking for. - 24/11/2009 11:11:22 AM 1437 Views
I always know where my books are in the system. - 24/11/2009 11:13:34 AM 1733 Views
I'm sure you do. - 24/11/2009 11:15:14 AM 1809 Views
Re: I'm sure you do. - 24/11/2009 11:17:00 AM 1608 Views
Yeah. - 24/11/2009 11:27:09 AM 1711 Views
Re: Yeah. - 24/11/2009 01:03:49 PM 1639 Views
Bookshelfs are an outdated concept. - 24/11/2009 01:34:07 PM 1784 Views
This has occurred to me - 24/11/2009 01:42:01 PM 1791 Views
I feel sure that it is the future of book storage. - 24/11/2009 03:41:33 PM 1649 Views
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With the added bonus of... - 24/11/2009 02:57:50 PM 1535 Views
Good point - 24/11/2009 03:42:28 PM 1664 Views
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LOL! - 24/11/2009 03:20:33 PM 1769 Views
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Yeah... - 24/11/2009 07:27:03 PM 1723 Views
horizontaly - 24/11/2009 03:45:34 PM 1790 Views
Hmmm. I mix horisontal and vertical. - 24/11/2009 03:48:14 PM 1635 Views
You make it sound like I only have one - 24/11/2009 03:59:38 PM 1791 Views
Yes. I meant it as an encompassing word, not to restrict numbers. - 24/11/2009 04:30:38 PM 1675 Views
In answer to your questions: - 24/11/2009 05:07:07 PM 1744 Views
Re: In answer to your questions: - 24/11/2009 05:23:51 PM 1722 Views
I do have some forms of synesthesia. - 24/11/2009 05:29:30 PM 1736 Views
Aha! - 24/11/2009 05:36:20 PM 1679 Views
Which Arabic dictionaries do you have, exactly? - 24/11/2009 08:50:16 PM 1459 Views
I am not fluent in every language I have a dictionary for, no. - 24/11/2009 11:10:22 PM 1651 Views
Well, I'd hate you more if I spoke Russian. - 24/11/2009 11:43:56 PM 1689 Views
Re: I don't. - 24/11/2009 04:13:44 PM 1652 Views
Re: I don't. - 24/11/2009 04:31:56 PM 1776 Views
Re: It isn't always neat. - 24/11/2009 05:17:25 PM 1606 Views
Re: It isn't always neat. - 24/11/2009 05:26:16 PM 1824 Views
Re: Two different planes of organisation. - 24/11/2009 05:38:15 PM 1698 Views
Re: Two different planes of organisation. - 24/11/2009 05:44:34 PM 1695 Views
Re: why should they not be? - 24/11/2009 05:50:16 PM 1641 Views
Re: why should they not be? - 24/11/2009 05:52:52 PM 1619 Views
Re: You show a clear demarkation of labour in some ways. - 24/11/2009 06:09:28 PM 1639 Views
Re: You show a clear demarkation of labour in some ways. - 24/11/2009 06:12:15 PM 1665 Views
Well, they should fit together. - 24/11/2009 04:28:20 PM 1721 Views
Re: Well, they should fit together. - 24/11/2009 04:32:48 PM 1622 Views
Hmmm. - 24/11/2009 08:29:40 PM 1715 Views
Re: Hmmm. - 24/11/2009 10:17:36 PM 1762 Views
I don't... anymore. - 24/11/2009 04:53:04 PM 1802 Views
Re: I don't... anymore. - 24/11/2009 04:59:44 PM 1702 Views
Re: How do you organise your bookshelf? - 24/11/2009 04:55:12 PM 1754 Views
Re: How do you organise your bookshelf? - 24/11/2009 05:03:20 PM 1749 Views
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Incidentally... - 24/11/2009 06:22:28 PM 1747 Views
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Re: How do you organise your bookshelf? - 24/11/2009 08:14:59 PM 1564 Views
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Actually... - 25/11/2009 01:43:54 AM 1493 Views
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Apparently I'm just very boring in this regard. - 24/11/2009 09:28:08 PM 1620 Views
Re: Apparently I'm just very boring in this regard. - 24/11/2009 10:18:54 PM 1737 Views
Re: Apparently I'm just very boring in this regard. - 25/11/2009 03:28:10 AM 1616 Views
Re: Apparently I'm just very boring in this regard. - 25/11/2009 11:17:08 AM 1613 Views
Star Wars gets one book shelf, everything else gets what's left...... - 24/11/2009 10:30:26 PM 1626 Views
Mainly by topic/genre - 24/11/2009 10:47:37 PM 1861 Views
Re: Mainly by topic/genre - 25/11/2009 11:07:39 AM 1646 Views
Neither, actually - 25/11/2009 08:28:33 PM 1846 Views
The better booksn on one shelf then the worse it gets..... - 24/11/2009 11:28:20 PM 1650 Views
How do you decide which books go where on the good shelf? *NM* - 25/11/2009 11:10:00 AM 903 Views
i have 4 different bookshelf areas... - 25/11/2009 02:33:35 AM 1460 Views
Re: i have 4 different bookshelf areas... - 25/11/2009 11:13:11 AM 1734 Views
My bookshelves are a mess. It started out alphabetical/author, then favorites, and now .... - 25/11/2009 04:55:20 AM 1763 Views
Re: See, I don't know what my favourites are. - 25/11/2009 05:35:50 AM 1655 Views
Are your books happy with this? - 25/11/2009 11:14:13 AM 1636 Views
Obsessively - 25/11/2009 01:38:08 PM 1554 Views
Re: Obsessively - 25/11/2009 07:31:06 PM 1778 Views
Hmmm. - 09/12/2009 02:02:44 PM 1556 Views
Hmm.... - 25/11/2009 10:32:28 PM 1664 Views
Re: Hmm.... - 25/11/2009 11:22:23 PM 1672 Views
Mainly by series. - 26/11/2009 02:31:52 AM 1516 Views
Re: Mainly by series. - 26/11/2009 09:06:31 AM 1587 Views
I know what my favorites are, of course. - 26/11/2009 03:51:45 PM 1695 Views
Re: How do you organise your bookshelf? - 26/11/2009 02:13:10 PM 1525 Views
Re: How do you organise your bookshelf? - 26/11/2009 04:47:45 PM 1615 Views
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Rebekah organises our DVDs like that. - 27/11/2009 02:39:38 PM 1648 Views
Re: Rebekah organises our DVDs like that. - 27/11/2009 04:36:56 PM 1682 Views
Re: Rebekah organises our DVDs like that. - 27/11/2009 07:59:26 PM 1759 Views
It is an A. - 29/11/2009 10:19:50 AM 1684 Views
By Genre, then world, then author, then chronologically - 29/11/2009 09:26:36 AM 1594 Views
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Books I want to keep and books I plan on giving away - 30/11/2009 03:27:07 PM 1482 Views
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Perfectly. - 30/11/2009 04:47:34 PM 1787 Views
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Re: Perfectly. - 01/12/2009 04:51:17 PM 1648 Views
Re: Perfectly. - 01/12/2009 04:55:58 PM 1747 Views
I do not believe so. - 01/12/2009 05:02:30 PM 1671 Views
just checking. *NM* - 01/12/2009 05:03:49 PM 871 Views
Like this - 03/12/2009 05:38:07 AM 1750 Views
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