I love it, too. Not so sure my guy does, though 😉
The first picture on my blog is of some books I used because I needed them to make the lamp taller, and I chose them by dust jacket color.
Other than that, they are done pretty much by genre or TBR or something of the like.
Thanks for the link =)
Maybe I’ll get more visitors!!

You can see pictures of Eden Tyler’s shelves in her house of books at http://edentylerwriter.com/2009/06/17/bookshelves/!

haha! i saw that.
i’ll comment there =)

I love that books have taken over your house. Shelving by genre or category seems to fit in a house of books.

We have books all over our house as well, but all my “real” books are in my study, except for one Anita Brookner that matches our bedroom so is on a table in there, and all of my books in my husband’s waiting-to-be-read stack.

Well, my reply to your comment was getting longer and longer. So I just cut and pasted it into a post, adding pictures. Thanks!

I don’t have enough room for all my books to be in one room!!!
I have an armoire, a built-in, and a standing bookshelf in the living room. I have stacks on the sofa table and the end tables. There’s a chair next to my bed that accumulates clothes and books. And, I took over the shelves in one of the kid’s rooms. I also have a small shelf next to my desktop. My books are everywhere!!
I shelve based on genre or category. I have one shelf dedicated to classics. One entire shelf in the armoire is all my Stephen King hardbacks. I have a shelf that’s just scary stuff. I have a true crime section, a fantasy section. Then I have my girlie books (not that I have many).
They’re all intermingled a bit, but I can still find what I want a lot easier this way. Strangely, I don’t do them alphabetically. It’d be way too difficult. I only do that for dvd’s..

oh, i soooo couldn’t handle writing in my books!! even if it was a second, paperback copy.
i want my books to be perfect. even the ones i pick up at used book sales (which is actually how i buy a lot of them).
but, everyone bonds differently with books, as you say.
i know one person who doesn’t feel good unless she’s bent the spine and worn in the book. makes her feel like the book’s been truly read…
i’m cringing at the thought.. lol

I tried a notebook too. Mine didn’t last long either. It was the extra step that got me–the writing it down.

But I do still have mine–5X7, loose-leaf, alphabetized by author’s last name (as you might imagine). It’s fun to look through and makes me wish I’d stuck to it. Perhaps I’ll get back to it one of these days. : )

You have me seeing this in a new light, Cynthia. For a while I had a little journal where I jotted down things I wanted to remember from specific books…but that didn’t last long. I am not organized enough for that sort of thing (although I like to pretend I am lol)

Oh, yes, I love making lists of books too and reading other people’s lists of them. If you have time, let us know how you shelve them. Do you separate the ones you’ve read from the ones you haven’t? Are they all in one room? Do you write in them? And as for your last question, right!