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Have enjoyed making and doing stuff on the first couple of webs thus far. Now working on web-related stuff for a book publisher. I like music. Brooklyn gardener. May or may not be notable.

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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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@smashedratonpress @kimlockhartga @bookstodon When we moved into our current house, in 2009, we took the opportunity to sort our bookshelves.

In the 15 years following, that organizational structure has...not been sustained. We have many more bookshelves that look like this now.

A wall of bookshelves, maybe six feet wide, and ten feet high. On several of the shelves there are books laid horizontally on top of the books on the actual shelves. The shelved books themselves suggest that there might once have been some formal organization, but one that has sadly decayed.
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    • whitneymcn ,
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    @CleoQc @smashedratonpress @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I appreciate your enabling. 😀

    We give away and sell books regularly, but I work for a publisher, so the inbound almost always outpaces the outbound

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    Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But on her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.

    https://flip.it/cbERa2

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    whitneymcn ,
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    @CultureDesk @bookstodon When you look into it, an impressive number of people -- otherwise famous and not -- wrote '70s erotica under pen names.

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