Organising books

Gloomendoom

In her infinite wisdom, my wife decided to rearrange all my books into size, rather than subject, order.

Now, to find a book, I first have to check Amazon.co.uk to find out how big it is. :mad:

grunnie

I trained as a librarian so it is Fiction and Nonfiction sorted by ISBN. My OH comes and asks me to find a book of his and then hands it back for me to replace
My cookery books are years old and love the handwritten recipes written by my late mother and 2 of my friends long gone now.
I have very few fiction books tho as I read 2 or 3 books a week and would never have room to move for them. Fiction books are meant to be read and passed on to friends or just charity shops.

Pollycat

I organise mine by subject (mince, potatoes, dairy, meat, casseroles etc) then country, starting with Greece, Turkey (as they are similar cuisines), Spain, Italy etc and moving on to India, Far East then I have the 'names' - Delia, Jamie Oliver, Sophie Grigson.

pandamonium

OMG - I'm having palpitations just thinking about tearing a page out of a book.

karcher wrote: »

Agreed :eek::eek:

I can't get past turning one upside down :eek: .

[Deleted User]

apart from tearing pages out of books !!!! my other pet hate is those who turn the corner of the pages down Drives me crazy That's what book marks are for I love books of any sort and would happily spend hours deep in a book, even though I have a kindle I still have a very large collection of books,AND I visit my local library regularly.If I see a book there be it a fiction or a cookery book nothing annoys me more that folk who have turned the page down at the corner perhaps its just me :):)

Pollycat

JackieO wrote: »

apart from tearing pages out of books !!!! my other pet hate is those who turn the corner of the pages down Drives me crazy That's what book marks are for I love books of any sort and would happily spend hours deep in a book, even though I have a kindle I still have a very large collection of books,AND I visit my local library regularly.If I see a book there be it a fiction or a cookery book nothing annoys me more that folk who have turned the page down at the corner perhaps its just me :):)

No, it's not just you.
I agree with this (and the page tearing out :eek:).
I buy books, usually for holidays, from charity shops and sometimes come back with as many as I've taken.
Friends also pass on books to me.
I'd never dream of turning a page down, even if a book has seen better days.
I have a box full of bookmarks & change them after every book.:o

Another of my pet hates is when people crack the spine of a book.
Therefore I'm very careful of who I lend books to.

monnagran

Agreed about turning the corners of pages down. I was brought up on library books - as many as six a week - so any damage was a complete no-no.

I tend to use a particularly beautiful birthday card or postcard as a book mark. Once I have finished the book I leave the card in there. Thus when I pick up a favourite book it already has a lovely card, or a card with a lovely message, inside it.

Had to laugh at gloomendoom's books being arranged in size order. I have a friend who re-ordered her husband's books according to the colour of the jackets. She thought it was more aesthetically pleasing.
The last time I heard, they were still together!

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rach_k

grunnie wrote: »

I trained as a librarian so it is Fiction and Nonfiction sorted by ISBN.

Do some libraries organise books by ISBN? How strange!

Upsidedown_Bear

rach_k wrote: »

Do some libraries organise books by ISBN? How strange!

No library I've ever been in uses ISBN.
They all use the Dewey System for non fiction.

Prinzessilein

I haven't known any library use ISBN to classify books (and I worked in libraries for a while)....They use the ISBN in stock-control. I think the ISBN breaks down into sections that tell you the country/language of origin of the book, and its publisher....I use the ISBN when I go to a book shop to order a book.

At home I have my non-fiction books arranged broadly according to category (All religious books together...then subdivided into Bibles...Commentaries....Criticism...Apologetics...et'c, and within these, ordered by author)

Cookery Books are gathered as General...Historical....'Celebrity'....Diet....and Then there is a section for the Handwritten stuff (started by my Oma(gran) and continued by Mum, and now mine...a real treasure) and folders of clippings from magazines.