[HN Gopher] The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own S...
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       The Organization of Your Bookshelves Tells Its Own Story
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-06-20 10:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | eimrine wrote:
       | Nothing interesting, just some fiction books being stored
       | everywhere. It's like I begin to tell to non-technician about
       | what programming books I am storing in toilet and what I have
       | studied perfectly.
        
         | ggm wrote:
         | The ones in the toilet are the ones you actually _read_. So,
         | your example tells its own story.
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         | Which ones on the shelves are within reach of your arm from the
         | chair? They're most likely to be the second set, the ones you
         | need, in crisis. The rest? they're ego, history or sentiment.
         | 
         | My partner and I almost exclusively read kindle now. Our books
         | are organized as "in your room, they're too dusty to have out
         | in the world any more" and are mostly alphabetical, fiction
         | split from factual, with reference books buried because we
         | don't refer to them any more, and few opened these last 5
         | years. Some of the beautiful ones are behind UV resistant
         | glass.
         | 
         | We check the cookbooks periodically.
         | 
         | I don't keep books in the bog any more. I used to read Brant
         | Parker, Johnny Hart and Bloomsbury there. My mum kept Georgette
         | Heyer, and Elle (in french) there. My dad had his stash of
         | Edgar Wallace.
        
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