Re: [Meta] Wait, you sort your books how???

On 7/15/2024 12:25 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:

On 7/15/2024 9:48 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <v738di$n4rq$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

>
More signs of madness in this crazy world:
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I just ran across the results of a poll that asked 29,000 Americans
about their book-owning habits, and friends, I am shocked — shocked! —
to report that there are people who have absolutely no organizational
system whatsoever. Worse — worse, I tell you — there are some who sort
their books by color. Color!
>
Here’s a link to the main source (published in October):
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/47712-how-many-books-americans-own-and-how-they-organize-them

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I could read the link, I suppose, but I wonder how many people actually
have a sufficient number of books such that they need to be organized.

 As a general observation, the viability of various organizational systems depends on the number of books to be organized. What works reasonably well for a few hundred books -- e.g. sorting by the author's last name -- may be problematic for a collection with a few thousand books and completely unworkable for a collection that contains tens of thousands of books.

Have you checked your local library lately?  They do have
thousands of books.  They use a system that separates the
books by class, first fiction and non-fiction.  Then
they separate the non-fiction according to the Dewey Decimal
Code.  The Fiction is separated into a number of sub
classifications, such as General Fiction, Mysteries,
Science Fiction, and of course Children's.  Then within
those categories they are sorted by the author's last
name.
I have a large personal library which I have sorted into
3 general classifications, General Fiction, Science Fiction,
and non-fiction.  The SF is the largest and the non-fiction
is by far the smallest.
Bill