Another library person. I probably own less than 100 physical books. Some of my favorite authors have their own shelves because they're been pretty prolific. The rest are organized loosely by genre.

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Anonymous wrote:I own about a dozen. I am a library girl. The ones I own are in two piles on a shelf in a closet. They are sorted in size order so they won't slide.

I only take two books out from the library at a time. One goes on my ottoman or on the floor and the other is on my bed.

I feel like you must have such a tidy mind based on this post alone!

I actually have a ton of very severe learning disabilities and untreated ADHD, so I try to make my surroundings very simple and tidy since my brain is such a hot mess.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh. We probably own 2,000-3,000 books. They are loosely organized by works related to professional concerns, non-fiction, and fiction (and within that, mystery, historical, scifi/fantasy, poetry, etc.), but then there's the ever-growing stack by my bed, and the books tucked in along the tip of other books on shelves, etc. Every once in a while I try to reorganize, but it doesn't stick for long.

sounds like hoarder behavior

Sounds like you're full of it.

How do I organize them? Hypothetically, that's how.

Anonymous wrote:Eh. We probably own 2,000-3,000 books. They are loosely organized by works related to professional concerns, non-fiction, and fiction (and within that, mystery, historical, scifi/fantasy, poetry, etc.), but then there's the ever-growing stack by my bed, and the books tucked in along the tip of other books on shelves, etc. Every once in a while I try to reorganize, but it doesn't stick for long.

sounds like hoarder behavior

By genre and language. One of these days I'll count them, but my best guess is around 1,500.

Eh. We probably own 2,000-3,000 books. They are loosely organized by works related to professional concerns, non-fiction, and fiction (and within that, mystery, historical, scifi/fantasy, poetry, etc.), but then there's the ever-growing stack by my bed, and the books tucked in along the tip of other books on shelves, etc. Every once in a while I try to reorganize, but it doesn't stick for long.

poetry together on one shelf, art books together, fiction and non-fiction sometimes mixed. my own books, that I've written also have a shelf.

Kind of like a library. I have a nonfiction section sorted into sports, crafts, history, biography etc. I have a travel bookcase. I have a classic novels section, a contemporary fiction section by author, foreign language novels by author (husband's collection), then a section of oversized art and photo books. Upstairs is a graphic novels book case. Recipe books are in the kitchen.

Do I need a clean out? Yes.

I sort them by size and keep genre books together. I dont understand those who sort them by color--though it does look neat.

We are in the 45-65, post-grad, high income category, and as the charts suggests, we own a lot of books. We sort like a bookstore sorts.

Anonymous wrote:I own about a dozen. I am a library girl. The ones I own are in two piles on a shelf in a closet. They are sorted in size order so they won't slide.

I only take two books out from the library at a time. One goes on my ottoman or on the floor and the other is on my bed.

I feel like you must have such a tidy mind based on this post alone!

You mean the stack sitting on my bedside table lol? I do about 99% audiobooks now.

I own about a dozen. I am a library girl. The ones I own are in two piles on a shelf in a closet. They are sorted in size order so they won't slide.

I only take two books out from the library at a time. One goes on my ottoman or on the floor and the other is on my bed.

(And how many do you have?)

https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/47712-how-many-books-americans-own-and-how-they-organize-them

I sort mine (not sure the exact count, probably between 100 and 500, mostly physical) by genre then author last name within genre. Since easily 80% of my books are fiction, this functionally similar to sorting by author last name really.