My resolution this year is to organize my library. Most of my collection is nonfiction, so I’ve started working on putting everything in order by Library of Congress style. The number of books is probably in the low thousands - I think another mission might be to catalog them while I’m at it.

Any tips or suggestions? If you have a larger collection, how do you organize and catalog your books?

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[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

I don’t have a lot of nonfiction, so those typically take up one small shelf grouped by content; cookbooks together, science books together, etc. I usually have these separate from my regular bookcase.

I have a lot of fiction, mostly speculative fiction. I don't separate by genre, but because of the shelf height in my bookcase, I organize by size then alphabetically by author’s last name, then by series order. Top shelf is all mass market paperbacks, next two shelves are trade paperbacks and shorter hardcover, bottom shelf is taller hardcovers. I also have books wedged on top of books on each shelf and I need to get another bookshelf because half my books are still in boxes from my last move.