Home Libraries

So, I'm reading Xalpharis's Live Journal friends page and came across a post asking for a suggestion for how to classify books in a home library. Xal had replied:

"The method I use for classifying my rather extensive book collection is rather like the genres of a retail store's cd section. I put science-fiction involving the future together, and science-fiction involving the past together, and so on and so on. Depending on OCD-tendencies, such classification also has sub-classifications, such as alphabetized authors and titles, with reference markers for authors that fall into several classifications. It may help you to do this as well. "

My first reaction was something along the lines of 'umm . . . okay.' But I think I sort of like the idea, especially for when I get more books. I don't have that many now, and less that I'm deffinately going to be keeping. My current system won'd necissarily work forever:

My classification system, such as it is, is much less . . . involved . . . than Xalpharis's. Alphabitically by author's last name, ordered within the author by publication date, with chronological order withing a given series trumping the order of publication. The exception to this rule is Mercedes Lackey's Velgarth serieses, which ignores the series rule for anything larger than the trilogies and series within the larger Velgarth structure.

Yeah, that's how I do my books.

On another note, I'm going to get interviewed for the yearbook "probably next week." It seems they're writing an article about people who like Harry Potter and got me off Facebook, where I am a member of a group called "Harry Potter Rocks My World." They read a post there where I had said that I thought that J. K. Rowling was loosing her touch, and called--pulling me away from my lovely nap--to ask to interview me. Little do they know that I also wrote a book review over the book and am working on an essay in which I'm arguing for Snape being one of the "good guys." It could be interesting.