For any avid reader, a proper bookshelf is a must at any home. After an essay about bookshelves was published, readers of The Globe and Mail wrote tons of letters about their own bookshelves as well as their rules in organizing them.
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Some people organized their books by topic and then alphabetically based on the author’s last name, others arranged their books alphabetically based on the title of the book, others did it by function (i.e. “working” books, childhood books, books borrowed from the library, etc.), and one reader sorted their books by country of author.
One couple even had serious discussions about the “right” way of organizing their books. And their system involved arranging the books based on category, and depending on the category, they either arranged them alphabetically by author, topic, or name of the subject, and for history books, chronologically. They also have an interesting way of grouping art books by style and photography books by type.
The above photo is from Beverley Kort who had a picture of her father’s old library. She shared that he was a chemist and generally organized his books by topic and then, alphabetically by author. Her own library is also organized by topic.
(Image credit: Beverley Kort; submitted to The Globe and Mail)
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