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I organized my cookbooks by color today. The result is enjoyably silly, and I'm quite tempted to do that for the rest of my books.

I've already been living with a wonky filing system, as when

bitpig and

mundeemo helped me unpack when I moved here,

mundeemo put the books together in subject order by what she could guess of their subjects from the title. Which resulted in an organization that tickled me so much I left it. (for example, The Mummy at the Dining Room Table, a book on weird psychological stuff, is shelved next to Bob Brier's book on Egyptian mummies and Thomas Hoving's Making the Mummies Dance, about the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)

I'm a visual person and tend to remember what the book looks like, so it's not that bad to find stuff, and the times I do forget what a book looked like and have to scan shelves to find it result in me finding books I'd forgotten I had (The Triumph of Individual Style being a case in point).

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I was at a party last weekend, and the guy whose apartment it was had organized all his bookshelves by color. It was actually a really pretty visual effect, especially since he had huge bookshelves in the middle of his living room.

I've been rearranging stuff today, and I certainly won't be able to do it with manga, since there's a few series with multiple colors, and I still prefer to organize them by "No Longer Collecting" and "Still COllecting," since I don't have enough shelves and need to double-stack them (the second rank is elevated on styrofoam risers, so I can see them).

But the nonfiction and fiction might work. I just have to decide if I want to keep them separate, or mix them all together.