Comments on: How Do You Organize Your Books? http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/ Children's Book Author Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mrs Jackie Parkes http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5162 Mrs Jackie Parkes Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:34:30 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5162 Love the blog... Love the blog…

]]> By: Mrs Jackie Parkes http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5161 Mrs Jackie Parkes Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:34:20 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5161 Love the blog... Love the blog…

]]> By: Mrs Jackie Parkes http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5160 Mrs Jackie Parkes Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:34:07 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5160 Love the blog... Love the blog…

]]> By: Kim http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5159 Kim Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:33:57 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5159 I am intrigued by Beth Newingham's system - http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/ -for our schoolroom. We have new gi-normous shelving which yes, houses all those books. Still, you can't have a 6ft row of books and try to take ones from the middle on a regular basis or you are courting disaster. I am thinking of investing in these baskets to group them topically and by series so they can be used regularly wihtout major reshelving. I am intrigued by Beth Newingham’s system - http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/ -for our schoolroom. We have new gi-normous shelving which yes, houses all those books. Still, you can’t have a 6ft row of books and try to take ones from the middle on a regular basis or you are courting disaster. I am thinking of investing in these baskets to group them topically and by series so they can be used regularly wihtout major reshelving.

]]> By: Zeca http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5158 Zeca Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:06:18 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5158 LT has a history of offline problems and lame excuses (see the blog). It's paid service. And it is uggly. So I think the choice is easy: goodreads or use the now-reading wordpress plugin, if you use wordpress for your blog and don't care about the social aspect. LT has a history of offline problems and lame excuses (see the blog).
It’s paid service.
And it is uggly. So I think the choice is easy: goodreads or use the now-reading wordpress plugin, if you use wordpress for your blog and don’t care about the social aspect.

]]> By: Steph http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5157 Steph Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:02:56 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5157 We are a family with a LOT of books. We have a loose system of organization by subject, and fiction is alphabetized. I have MY fiction in an odd arrangement: 4 groups: mystery paperbacks, mystery hardcovers, non-mystery fiction/classics paperbacks, non-mystery fiction/classics hardcovers. Each group is alphabetized. The kids' personal bookcases are organized by methods of their own devising. Works for us, if we can remember to put things back where they belong. We are a family with a LOT of books. We have a loose system of organization by subject, and fiction is alphabetized. I have MY fiction in an odd arrangement: 4 groups: mystery paperbacks, mystery hardcovers, non-mystery fiction/classics paperbacks, non-mystery fiction/classics hardcovers. Each group is alphabetized. The kids’ personal bookcases are organized by methods of their own devising. Works for us, if we can remember to put things back where they belong.

]]> By: Fe http://melissawiley.com/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5156 Fe Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:00:38 +0000 http://72.29.64.190/~mwiley/blog/2007/09/17/how-do-you-organize-your-books/#comment-5156 If you use a mac, I highly recommend <a href="http://www.delicious-monster.com" rel="nofollow">Delicious Library</a>. It's great! I'm still working through our library, I've scanned all our fiction and the small non-fiction shelf, but now I'm going through entering manually all the books that didn't scan (obscured bar codes, no bar codes, no ISBN) which is quite a large number. I'm up to P on my books (DH and I are _slowly_ merging our collections—which should allow us to discard unnecessary duplicates!), then there's his, the random shelves in the lounge, the rest of the small non-fiction shelf—then I have to attack the two (mostly) non-fiction bookcases in the study. And the boxes of picture books that I had collected, but have not put out yet. So far we're at 1500 books. My fiction is alphabetised, and the non-fiction is loosely grouped (it will become more so as we get the rest of the books in line). One of the things I really like about Delicious Library is that you can enter locations as well—and it's really easy to 'loan' books out to people. Makes it really easy to keep track of where they are:-) (I just noticed Milly-Molly-Mandy in your sidebar, I've just finished reading it to Puggle, and we're reading the next at the moment:-) ) If you use a mac, I highly recommend Delicious Library. It’s great!
I’m still working through our library, I’ve scanned all our fiction and the small non-fiction shelf, but now I’m going through entering manually all the books that didn’t scan (obscured bar codes, no bar codes, no ISBN) which is quite a large number. I’m up to P on my books (DH and I are _slowly_ merging our collections—which should allow us to discard unnecessary duplicates!), then there’s his, the random shelves in the lounge, the rest of the small non-fiction shelf—then I have to attack the two (mostly) non-fiction bookcases in the study. And the boxes of picture books that I had collected, but have not put out yet. So far we’re at 1500 books.

My fiction is alphabetised, and the non-fiction is loosely grouped (it will become more so as we get the rest of the books in line). One of the things I really like about Delicious Library is that you can enter locations as well—and it’s really easy to ‘loan’ books out to people. Makes it really easy to keep track of where they are:-)

(I just noticed Milly-Molly-Mandy in your sidebar, I’ve just finished reading it to Puggle, and we’re reading the next at the moment:-) )

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