Sunday, January 23, 2011

#Bloggiesta Mini Challenge: Organize them Books!

blogiesta Jenn’s Bookshelves is hosting this mini challenge and there aren’t much guidelines to join. But heck.. something fill it up I guess. Here are a few info on how I organize my books.


How do I keep up with what I have in my collection? 
I found great sites just for tracking my books at Goodreads & Librarything. Both of which are accessible by my phone and easily maintain. I occasionally download my list to keep up and do some manual stuff through my computer via Excel. In that file, I have it organized much more to ‘Price’, ‘Author’, ‘Title’, ‘Series’, ‘Genre’, ‘Year Acquired’, 'Copy' (subdivide to ARC, Review, Borrowed, Bought). I must admit I haven’t been very nice with this excel list.

Bookshelves organization?
Physical Bookshelves.

    I have a few places where I store my books:
  • 2 book shelves
  • 5 big Storage containers,
  • 6 delivery boxes (I have yet to unpack)
  • a couple of boxes of books for garagesale
  • my external hard drives.
Divided by Fiction, Non-Fiction & Reference. Series are all grouped together.  My ARC & Review books are all placed together on a separate shelf so I don’t get them mixed up with my books.

Online Database (GR, LT, Excel). My system is very much OCD-ed. Tags are my organization best friend and my enemy roll in one.

  • TBR, Read, Wishlist
  • Fiction, Non-Fiction & Reference
  • Sub-Divide:  Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literary, etc.
  • Author, Title, Year acquired,  Publicist, Country, Arc, Review… etc…
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    I use Goodreads to keep a check on what I've got and what I want. That's when I started writing reviews too before I became a blogger. I think it's such a great service, and free too! So handy to use when you're out and about and shopping for books if you have the app on your phone.

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  2. mpartykaJanuary 23, 2011 at 9:31 PM

    Sounds like you have making progress and getting organized. I have a system that works for me, I don't like to keep books in the house so I get rid of them quickly (books I will not read and have already read).

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  3. LexieJanuary 24, 2011 at 1:55 AM

    Ahh my GR is like this:
    + Read, To Read, To Buy, To Re-Read, Currently Reading, To Check out
    + Every Genre you can think of
    + Author Name
    + series Name
    + Special Keywords (Ninja, Martial Arts, etc)
    + extra (Autographed, Blog I reviewed for, Own, ARC, Book Style)

    I'm an OCD Tagger myself XD

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