I need your help. I know there used to be photos of people's bookshelves but I can't find them. Can you either post them here or send them to me at noumena12 @ noumena . com?

I'm writing a story about organizing books and I'd love to include some of those fun photos!! :) I won't use anyone's name.

Also, if you'd let me know how you organize your books (genre, alphabetical, etc), I'd love to hear that also.

Thanks!
Ann

Errrr I don't have bookshelves here. Mine are in my closet. :blush:

ETA:
I just have them ordered by size. Mass market paperback, trade size paperback, & hardbacks. :erm:

I found some previous threads

http://bookobsessed.com/index.php?showtopic=3787&st=20

http://bookobsessed.com/index.php?showtopic=2000

I can't find the big long one we had a while back, but maybe some of those will work? I put mine on by how big they are and what will fit with the most use of the space LOL

Here's updated ones I just took of mine (note, the link under it will take you to the flickr picture with notes as to my weird little way of organizing, which basically means I work around the kids and I have a very small spot for bookclub and already crossed books...


http://flickr.com/photos/candyb/2566378718
(My shelves)



http://flickr.com/photos/candyb/2565552453/
(Tom's Shelves)

Thanks Candie! Not sure why I couldn't find it when I tried to search

I emailed some to you.

Here's one of my spare bedroom:



I'm reorganising :shrug:

I can tell :giggle:

There is one of mine on my bookmooch profile...and I think one on my blog too.

Here are my shelves, pictures taken just now:

Left bookshelf - medieval texts on top shelf; dissertation books on bottom two shelves
Right bookshelf - assorted nonfiction texts on top shelf; more dissertation books on bottom two shelves



Permanent collection books - top shelf is Discworld and Narnia; other shelves are mostly Marion Zimmer Bradley with a few children's books on bottom right (my cats really wanted to be in the pictures - I managed to mostly keep them out except for the tail here - that's Guenevere)



Nonfiction collection (mostly stuff about medieval literature, some Buffy/Firefly, second to bottom shelf on right bookcase is knitting books) [ETA: These books are organized by the LOC system - I use a label maker to create a spine label for each book]



Permanent collection fiction books



Top of above shelf containing Song of Ice and Fire books as well as some of my older collectible books



TBR mass market paperbacks. Left side is two stacks deep. (The big brown book on the shelf is a facsimile of the Winchester manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. I just got it last month and adore it. You can see all the little drawings and marginal comments that the scribe included.)



Stacked MMP (two deep) are all available (and listed on PaperBackSwap). Bottom shelf is also available. Top two shelves are my hardback/oversized TBR books. This is in the closet in my room.



We have a three-bedroom apartment just so I can have this room for all my books. (I also have a desk with my computer in this room) I love it!

Love the cat's tale :)

what?: OMG yes. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I love it. Love all the pics, love the books and the way you organise them. It makes me come visit. :whistle:

Love the tail.
Love this thread. more more.

My pictures are still on that second thread candie listed. I haven't taken any lately, but after this past weekend, I think it just doubled in size. :blush:

I will try to add updated pics since I now have 8 bookshelves instead of 7 now and they have all been moved around my house and stuff!

Karendawn - Glad to know I'm not the only one with George R. R. Martin books in both hardback and paperback. I only have Game of Thrones that way, but I keep trying to justify why I have two copies of the same book in different formats. :giggle:

Oh, I so wish I had those in hardback. So far I only have Feast for Crows in that binding.

Those are books that I can't wait to come out in paperback before buying them (cause we have to wait so long just for the book to come out!) but I prefer reading paperbacks, so the hardbacks are for "display" and the paperbacks are for rereading. (And the first and fourth books in hardback are autographed :D )

I do the same thing with Robin Hobb. *grin*

Oh gosh mine are too awful to photograph. I have two bookcases in the hall by the front door as well as 5 in the front room but we only have a small flat and a hell of a lot of stuff. I will try and do a pic ;)

To tell the truth, I really don't have a way to organize them other than I keep the books I've been thinking about reading soon at eye level... :)

What a show off my son is :giggle:
I just love to look at his bookcase :) Since he put a pic in than I'll take a pic of mine. I have it stored on Village Photos but I don't like it. I'll take another.

since I promised these to a friend anyhow...here's 15 pictures of all the books in my room currently. Not pictured is the twelve boxes of poetry books sitting in my boyfriend's closet nor the six boxes of norton anthologies sitting buried in my closet...

organization wise...none really. by series mostly and in the case of my romances by genre type.

These are the comic book trade paperbacks I own as well as 4 larger dragon books.
these are the trade paperbacks I own as well as some of my 'childrens' books (stuff like Cynthia Voigt's Bad Girls, CS Adler books, Marilyn Sachs...)
that bin is all my Japanese artbooks and video game guides plus about 30 volumes of chinese and Japanese manga.
TBR pile one, piled along side my bed. all my writing manuals are piled there to.
TBR pile two, piled along side my bed again.
TBR pile 3, plus behind them between bookcase and lamp are my dictionaries.
My biggest bookcase--top shelf is mainly my media tie in books and anthologies behind some TPB's and my Alex Mack/Road to Avonlea/Are You Afraid of the Dark books, second shelf is young adult fiction (classic and otherwise), Japanese lite novels, tv show companions to the side and behind, third shelf is more young adult series, old Australian show books (Ocean Girl, Spellbinder, Girl From Tomorrow) and more TPB. fourth and fifth shelves are romance. the fourth being romance anthologies mostly and the fifth being everything else.

end part 1

part 2

Other mass market paperbacks...mostly series, about 2 books deep.
The rest of my non-English manga plus random anime/manga furoku (extra items). Formerly where my artbooks and game guides were.
box of mostly fairy tale books, academic discussions of stories, fairy tales and legends, mythology books, non-fiction essay collections and 'big' books (Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, my Christmas Carols book).
Hardcover books shelf one. Two books deep.
English translated manga/manwha. Two gn's deep.
Hardcover books shelf two. Mostly my series of longer then 5 books...Acorna, Valdemar, Pern, Magic Circle...plus the bottom shelf is books that are childhood favorites, trilogies and unfinished series (Princess of Dhagabad for instance).
finally long pile...my other manga series...mostly the finished ones that didn't fit on the shelf itself. Basara (the longest line left to right) is 27 volumes long, thelongest I own. On the shelf itself, Red River (the red spine books) is at volume 21 and will go to volume 28.

and so ends all the pics I was able to take.
sorry some of them are on their sides...

Lexie, that is all in your room? :blink: How do you even walk around in there!??

yes that is all in my room...quite honestly I DON'T walk in my room. I slide off the end of my bed, have a narrow space of about half a foot between my dresser and my bed, another six inch square in front of my vanity and that's really it. There are random blocks of empty space that when I want to get to a certain bookshelf or DVD shelf I can hop one footed around in, but otherwise that's it. if I didn't box all my poetry and norton's up I'd not even have a bed right now since up until two weeks ago my bed was covered in about 300 books that I couldn't fit on the ground nor on the shelves...its not easy fitting 1647 books, 458 graphic novels, 234 non-english graphic novels, 47 artbooks/game guides and 315 DVD's into a room of 10x10 with a queen sized bed, and two dressers. not including my 1000+ comic book collection.

I can't wait until we move into the new house. my room will be 15x12 with larger sturdier bookcases so maybe that will give me enough room to move comfortable around... :rofl:

I prefer the paperbacks too, but I don't want to wait another year after waiting 5 or 6 for the next edition. :wacko: Since I like to reread the last as a refresher when the new ones come out, I think you may have just justified me being able to buy the paperback versions of the others. :lol:

I'm seriously jealous of the autographed copies.

Thanks everyone! I'll share the story I write when I'm done....

I can make you more jealous. ;)

:rofl:

Here is my bookcase. Or part of it. It has two doors on the bottom and inside is two shelves of books. I have a small space though just for my lotions :lol: