In sorts



Also, that article on indexing had a picture of a second-hand bookstore that warms the cockles of my OCD heart. Oh, except I sort my books by height and then publisher.

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Tym said…
I'm so conventional, I shelve mine by genre, then alpha by author --- just like the library and the bookstore!

How easy is it to keep track of stuff by publisher?
4 February 2006 at 02:36
Daryl said…
I just like the look of keeping all my Vintages and Picadors and Penguins together - that's pretty easy, since these are probably the most distinctive publishers.
4 February 2006 at 09:52
The Screwy Skeptic said…
I know what you mean - I like seeing all my Folgers Shakespeares lined up so much that I refuse to buy the new editions of Folgers that don't look the same as the old ones damnit. But that's ok.
4 February 2006 at 23:45
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