Comments on: Iked

By: sheepish

sheepish — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:59:03 +0000

I like grouping books by general theme/genre, and sort of positioning authors near each other, but only to a point. I like a bit of artful disarray in my bookshelves. If it’s too ordered, it feels like a library, instead of a random and eclectic assortment of books (except it’s not really that eclectic, I’m sure).

By: Terminal Degree

Terminal Degree — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:27:49 +0000

It sounds great! My books are grouped by theme, and then kind of by size. And I do keep authors together, or I’d never find them again…

By: wolfa

wolfa — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:16:05 +0000

I’m really not worried that my books — or my anythings — will be “too ordered”. But I need to have a plan to start off with.

I might need to do something about by size, cause I hate having huge hardcovers next to paperbacks.

By: sheepish

sheepish — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:12:12 +0000

Well, naturally. It can even be problematic to have too much mingling of the trade paperback with the mass market paperbacks.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:34:55 +0000

Trade and mass-market are pretty much ok together, and in any case, few genres mix them — fiction general is mostly trade, everything else is mostly mass-market. I’m sure I’ll keep comics and geeky stuff separate, I’m undecided on the other stuff, still. And today I picked up three garbage bags full of free books. Good I have all those shelves.

By: sheepish

sheepish — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:47:29 +0000

Three garbage bags of books? That’s rather vague as a size, but I’m imagining something pretty massive. Nice!

The one genre that crosses back and forth between mass market and trade is classic literature. You’ve got the old Penguin Classics style mass markets vs. the fancier newer trade releases.

By: shelly

shelly — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:48:26 +0000

Three hot dogs!

By: wolfa

wolfa — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:04:14 +0000

True, Sheepish. Also I have lots of hardcover Jeanette Winterson, which are massmarket pb sized. I never buy classics in trade paperback, I don’t think.

I know. But they’re 50 cents each, the hot dogs. And she’s 13.