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[quote=Anonymous]I recently moved and sold almost everything -- 100s of books -- at McKay's, and I'm so glad I did, even though I had a strong emotional attachment to my books. Before I moved and got rid of them, I would have told you that they were organized as follows:

By category, and then by author last name with a few exceptions. Categories are fiction, memoir, poetry, drama/acting technique (I'm an actor, I have a lot of scripts, books of plays, and acting tech books), reference (everything from dictionary to legal research and writing, to Martha Stewart's book about housekeeping here), writing books (I have an MFA in creative writing and I put craft books as well as books about getting work freelance writing, etc, here),  CNF, cookbooks. I might be forgetting some.

Cookbooks aren't alphabetized by author, they are just kind of in the order in which I grab them, and they are on a shelf above my fridge. My theatre books are in an order that would only make sense to me and is hard to explain.

Literary fiction is mostly in a huge cabinet with glass doors in my living room. Like I said, cookbooks are above the fridge. Theater books are in a smaller cabinet that matches the big cabinet with fiction in it (it was a small media center, but I never used it for that). Everything else is in some ceiling-high built in bookshelves in a family room in the basement. [/quote]

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