Comments on: how do you shelve?

By: cynthia

cynthia — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:11:16 +0000

For a look at the English Professor’s bookshelves (Cyberchuck’s brother), follow this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/catchingdays/TheEnglishProfessorSBookshelvesCyberchuckSBrother#.

I love the wall of books! It looks like you can pull a book off a shelf from anywhere in the room.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:55:12 +0000

In reply to cyberchuck. Thanks for your comment, Cyberchuck. I've seen several interesting articles in the Guardian lately. Will keep my eyes on the other ones.

By: cyberchuck

cyberchuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:53:17 +0000

Brilliant! I love British newspapers, all of ’em. Even the bad ones are good. As the US newspaper industry winds down, maybe we can all take out a subscription to The Independent, The Guardian or The Times and stay enlightened.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:04:45 +0000

From today’s UK Guardian: “Bookshelf etiquette. How to arrange your books: James Purnell has been using his time to rearrange his bookshelves alphabetically. Bad mistake. Here’s why:”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/21/books-arrange-james-purnell.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:42:36 +0000

In reply to cynthia.

Here’s the link to view cyberchuck’s book shelves. He uses the “size within topic” method of shelving. Worth a look for the cool pictures alone. Although we need to do something about the fiction shelf!

http://picasaweb.google.com/cyberchucker/Bookshelves?feat=directlink.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:37:17 +0000

In reply to cyberchuck.

Shelving by size within topic–very interesting. I would love to see a picture. Do you have one? If you can email me the url, I can attempt to add it to the comments so everyone can see.

What about fiction?

By: cyberchuck

cyberchuck — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:51:55 +0000

I file by size within topic. That probably makes no sense unless you could see a picture of my bookshelves, but it lets me have an attractive arrangement of my library and also lets me find any book I want in seconds without having to remember the exact title or author. If I’m looking for the field guide to dragonflies, I know it’s a medium-sized book on the bugs bookshelf. Works for me, not trying to push it on others, wish I could post a photo to illustrate.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:37:22 +0000

In reply to Christian. Great to hear from you, Christian. Do any of the authors you read have a book in fiction and nonfiction?

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:39:28 +0000

My only system is that non-fiction cannot comingle with fiction. Other than that, it’s a melee. 🙂

By: cynthia

cynthia — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:08:04 +0000

“Inspired by the idea that bookshelves offer a glimpse into their owner’s personal life and interests, last year Australian artist Victoria Reichelt undertook a series of oil-on-canvas paintings based on photographs of random shelves and collections of books.”

To see a very cool slideshow of these paintings, go to http://www.pw.org/content/written_image_possession_obsession. One looks like it was organized based on color!