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I spent part of today re-organizing my manga collection.

greenapple2004, stop your company titling books letters between M and T, plzkthx. I have way too many titles in that range already and it's getting annoying to have to shuffle them around from shelf to shelf to make room.

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I think you win the "Cry Me a Friggin' River" Award on that one. :-)

But, uh. Sure. I'll see what I can do.

(You alphabetize your manga? I have mine sorted by series, but nothing close to alphabetically...)

I'm a librarian, what did you expect?

My regular books have a unique system - they're generally divided into ficiton and nonfiction, but within those two categories they're based on the order that

mundeemo put them in when she helped me unpack. Not ahving read most of them, she tried to shelve them in subject order based on what she extrapolated from the title, which can break down spectacularly in the case of metaphorical titles. I thought it was funny enough to stay, and in the past year and a half I've gotten so used to it that I can easily find most of my books.

My manga has a somewhat elaborate system at the moment. Yesterday I bought Styrofoam and constructed a two-tier shelving system because my shelves are so deep that the space is wasted unless they're double-stacked, but I want to be able to see the titles in the back, so they're now raise on three-inch Styrofoam shelves. :D And so I don't have to shuffle books back and forth too much when shelving, the ones in the back are completed series, one-shots, and series that I've stopped buying but don't want to sell just yet. The series that are stacked in front are the ones that I'm actively buying, and so need room to expand. They're each shelved in order by title, so I can lay my hands easily on anything, and so I can see at a glance if I really do have a series or if I've sold it to Half-Price Books. :D

I should point out that this sytem currently results in Furuba, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Hellsing all being on one shelf, which means that in 4 or 5 months I'm going to have to book Hellsing down to the next shelf, which has Hunter x Hunter, off*beat, Qwan, Rurouni Kenshin and a couple others I can't see from here on it, which means that RK is going to have to be booted over to the Saiyuki/Saiyuki Reload shelf, and when I get around to collecting the RK volumes from 5-17, RK is going to need its own shelf entirely. Once it's through, I can of course go get more Styrofoam and give RK its own full shelf in the back, but while it's actively in the collection stage it needs to sit up front so I can remind myself what volumes I have and what I don't.

CAN'T YOU SEE THE PRESSURE I'M UNDER HERE, WOMAN?!

Ah, the joys of a one-room apartment...I don't really have the shelving space to be terribly organized about stuff like this. My manga is in three different places, and while most series are more or less together (with the exception of Death Note, where the English is in one place and the Japanese in another), but I know I've got half of Zankoku na Kami on one set of shelves, and the rest of it elsewhere.

It absolutely kills me that I have to split Petshop of Horrors between two shelves to keep the finished series in alphabetical order. There's a very few things that I have OCD tendencies on and shelving, if I'm using a system, is one of them.

My OCD tends to be intense, but short-lived, so I get really into some project or some new thing for a couple of weeks, and then it's on to the next thing, so it doesn't tend to extend to general organizational systems in my house. Except for my closet, which is actually in rainbow order. Hm.

Mine is alphabetized by series title, except the oversized ones and ones in Japanese have their own section. I leave space on the shelves for ongoing series.

The Japanese ones I own are stacked on a shelf at the bottom, since I don't owen many. The Italian ones are currently over on my Shelf o'Italian Stuff in my office/studio area.

Mine are all alphabetical as well. However when I was shelving them I left 4-5 extra spaces per shelf. I don't really have to reshelf very often, but the next time I do it'll probably be around the F/G/H area due to both Fruits basket and Hana-kimi. Fortunately the very bottom shelf on the second bookcase is only about 1/4th full so I have plenty of room to grow.

If I only leave 4-5 space, they fill up like lightning. I don't know how it happens.

I'm just glad for series ending, because that means I can shift them into the more permanent collection.

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