A couple of weeks ago, some photos appeared on the Flickr Bookshelf Project Pool feed that have stuck with me all this time. Someone’s books were arranged by color. Intriguing. Today, another photo of books arranged by color appeared on Ed’s Superpatron – Friends of the Library blog and I’ve decided this is the way to go.
A couple of years ago, Michelle attempted to use the little bar scanner to enter all of our books into a database and arranged books by author (fiction) and type (non-fiction). The attempt, while admirable, was not a huge success. We don’t have enough shelves and things got moved around really quickly. And of course, we can never remember author names. We need a new system and I think color is the way to go.
We can often remember the cover of a book. If it’s a classic, there’s a good chance it’s a Penguin which means orange. This color thing is really making sense to me.
How are your books arranged? Do you think the color system is a good idea? Or am I just nuts?
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I arrange my clothes by color, so why not my books? I’m going to have to go home and start that. Right now, I have them divided by types on bookshelves in different rooms and usually just by size on the bookshelves themselves. I’m liking the color idea!
well, by the end of the week they’ll be in color!!!! right now they are kinda by subject- and all the books we’ve read for book club are together. cool…
Wow, cool Karen!
I just finished reading Nick Hornby’s ‘Polysyllabic Spree’ and not only do I want to be his bestest friend ever, I’ve been swayed by his book organizing system. He claims to believe the Trivial Pursuit (arts and entertainment, etc)system to be far superior to the Dewey Decimel system.