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So, most of my hardbacks and trades have been shelved. That is to say, they have been fit somewhere on my shelves. I've a baker's dozen unshelved, but let's set these aside for the moment.
So, I'm now pondering whether I should try to rearrange these books on the shelves as I did with the paperbacks, keeping ones I've read to the back and the harder to reach stacks as much as possible, and the unreads to the front and more easily accessible stacks. The challenge is that trades and hardbacks vary far more in size than mass market paperbacks do.
Also, I have some stacks that serve support functions. The shelf above them would not, I think, collapse without them, but they do add structural integrity. These are unreads, litcrit, or both, and there's a good deal to be said for keeping like books together.
On the third tentacle, the actual order isn't as important as being able to find books. I was told that the NYPL research library stacks shelve books by size. Since anyone wanting a book has to hand in a slip requesting the book, and all books have call numbers, it's an efficient enough system.
And, the pictures I'm taking may well make browsing easier. Still, there is definitely something to be said for keeping the books one expects to want to access as accessible as possible.
So, I'm now pondering whether I should try to rearrange these books on the shelves as I did with the paperbacks, keeping ones I've read to the back and the harder to reach stacks as much as possible, and the unreads to the front and more easily accessible stacks. The challenge is that trades and hardbacks vary far more in size than mass market paperbacks do.
Also, I have some stacks that serve support functions. The shelf above them would not, I think, collapse without them, but they do add structural integrity. These are unreads, litcrit, or both, and there's a good deal to be said for keeping like books together.
On the third tentacle, the actual order isn't as important as being able to find books. I was told that the NYPL research library stacks shelve books by size. Since anyone wanting a book has to hand in a slip requesting the book, and all books have call numbers, it's an efficient enough system.
And, the pictures I'm taking may well make browsing easier. Still, there is definitely something to be said for keeping the books one expects to want to access as accessible as possible.