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kimlockhartga , to bookstodon group
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I need to reorganize my fiction bookshelves. What system has worked best for you? I'm leaning towards going by author, though that leaves the question of how to treat anthologies. Maybe anthologies could be first, or shelved by the editor's name. Alphabetical by title (preceded by numbers) might work just as well as by author.

I had been doing them by height size, except for the graphic novels, which tend not to match any standard size.

These particular bookshelves are all fiction (except for graphic nonfiction) so organizing by subject seems unwieldy.

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It look familiar.

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Currently ….

“Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies)

by Michael Sharratt”

What non-fiction book are you currently reading?

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hoare_spitall ,
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@bibliolater @bookstodon Rationality by Steven Pinker. I've enjoyed his various linguistic works, but this is hard going for me, as I'm not a statistician. I'll plug on though.

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Interesting.
As a young bus driver in UK I used regularly to drive a young guitar-toting guy to a recording studio in my home town. When Roxanne became a massive hit in the UK I realised who he was. I'm still waiting to have my role acknowledged in Sting's great musical success.
I think of this story when I read such tales of guilt by association.

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I'm not defending anybody, not even me. But I am aware that sometimes prima facie situations appear to be other than they are, and I have also learned to wait until all the pieces of the jigsaw are on the board before deciding what the picture shows.

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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Iain M. Banks
Anton Chekhov
C. J. Cherryh
Samuel R. Delany
Ursula Le Guin
Vladimir Nabokov
Thomas Pynchon
Gene Wolfe


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@pocoforte @austern @bookstodon What are M Books?

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