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

In article <mcuhaj58qr5tnd7691a21n8on4b6b553gk@4ax.com>,
 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

I sort my books by category:  Antique & rare books, old books, history
and books kept for historical reasons, medicine & health & gardening &
cycling & stuff like that there, astronomy, whatever is behind the
wooden doors on the bottom barristers, children's books, and, on the
mezzanine shelf in the halway, paperbacks, mostly F&SF, mostly
alphabetical by author.
 
Who knows how many books I have, but it isn't a lot.

I have been accumulating books since May 1973 (when I became employed,
moved to another state and set up house). I started out buying free
standing shelves (until Sears stop carrying the type I wanted) and then
bought bookcases (BTW, I moved 3 times during this, into ever bigger
places). At the start, new books were in various stacks until read, then
placed onto shelves. SF magazines went on shelves as well (until I start
putting old ones in boxes). Besides new stuff, I was buying back issues
of various SF magazines at used bookstores (all the way back to the pulp
days in the 30s and 40s - lots of early 1950s digests as well); these
mostly were stored in boxes (and are still there).

Currently, I have thousands of books, the unread ones are in bookcases
(3 for hardcovers, 2 for paperbacks and 1 for trade paperbacks - novels
and collections sorted by author, with anthologies at the end). As for
books I have read, the hardcover novels and collections are sorted by
author and title (except for series which are in series order).
Hardcover anthologies are on the shelves after that. Paperbacks are
sorted into several groups: science fiction novels and collections,
sorted by author and title (series excepted again); fantasy novels and
collections by author and title (series excepted); paperback editions of
original anthologies by title; and paperback editions of reprint
anthologies by title.

Most of my SF magazines are in boxes; only Asimov's and F&SF are
complete on shelves with Astounding/Analog from 1949 on.

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