[ SECRET POST #4184 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4184 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

01. http://i65.tinypic.com/2hr395t.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It would drive me nuts to have my books sorted by colour. That's all I can think when I see stuff like this.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here. I actually like to order my books my genre, but I know that's just me.

[(Anonymous)]

Same! So many series would end up getting split up! How could you find anything?

[(Anonymous)]

It would drive me crazy too. I sort mine by author.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I can barely sort my books according to genre-- I think I'm actually doing a good job when I manage to put series together. So while I think that maybe pictures like that are fake, then I go "Well maybe there are people who have their lives so much more together than I" which is entirely possible because I'm a mess

[(Anonymous)]

Why do they have to love them?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but due to limited space, the only books I own are the ones I really like and will reread multiple times.

[(Anonymous)]

I keep wondering how these people manage to find books on their shelves. Do they just have so few books that they don't mind looking at every spine to find a particular book? Do they never read books in a series so they don't have to worry about where their books end up in relation to each other?

[kaijinscendre]

If your books are in a certain order, you will remember where they are.

[(Anonymous)]

Memory? My house is full of bookshelves (and book crates, and random book piles), and pretty much none of them are organised, but I do generally know what's on/in each. I tend to keep series together where possible, even if that means just piling them all together in a corner, but other than that it's just wherever there was room at the time.

And if I can't remember where I put a particular book, yeah, I'll just go through the house manually looking for it. Which has its downsides in that I often get distracted reading something else along the way, admittedly.

[tabaqui]

I pretty much know where every book I own is, and i have ....a lot. Mostly, it's just 'cause...they're mine. I shelved them, I dust them, I read them, so....

[(Anonymous)]

I have a little over a hundred books and I remember all of them because I dust and rearrange them about once a month.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd doubt it, too. Instagram seems like a very fake kind of place to me, though to be fair it's not a platform that lends itself well to longer text posts.

[(Anonymous)]

It's definitely a platform that values style over substance or function

I don't think there's anything actually wrong with that, though, so I'm not sure that I'd call it "fake". Definitely not my kind of scene but horses for courses.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get why people sort their books by color, but whatever. Their shelves, not mine.

Disagree on a lot of the other points, though. Why do they have to love every book they own? I have plenty of books I thought were okay, but not awesome. I also don't review anymore. If that's not the type of reader they are, that's fine.

[tabaqui]

I like looking at neat/interesting/creative bookshelves, but a lot of them are just really impractical looking, like weird shapes where you can only stick three or four books in at a weird angle.
Or really really *tall*, so that you'd need a stepladder to reach them.

Down inside, I rather doubt people like that with 'quirky' bookshelves really care so much about their books.

As Gloria Upson said: "Books are *awfully* decorative, don't you think?"
(Auntie Mame)

[(Anonymous)]

I worked in a bookshop for twenty years. My own books rarely get put into any kind of order of order (except paperback fiction for some reason.) I always know where they are. I just spent too much time shelving and sorting out shelves at work.

Another problem is that of shelf height. What do you do when you have large-format and small-format books on cats, for instance?

And no, I haven't read all of my books, nor reviewed them. Some just sit there, gathering dust. I even throw books out from time to time!

[(Anonymous)]

What, you don't live the #shelfsperation posts?!

Nah, I'm with you. I have books everywhere. I try to keep like with like, which means they're stuffed onto shelves, stacked two deep, stacked on top of other books...those 'pretty' posts remind me of the Regency romances where the newly rich bought books by the yard to put in their libraries, to make themselves look more educated than they actually were.

[(Anonymous)]

I confess I think such arrangements are pretty, but I'd never do this. I go by a slightly arbitrary grouping of books according to how much I love them, then organized by author and chronological order. If I went by color, I'd never be able to find anything!

[(Anonymous)]

From somebody who reads a lot, I don't always get to them immediately. And I have to basically stop all library trips to get me to focus on the stuff I actually own. So them not talking about them after the initial squee might just be they haven't read 'em yet.

[ayebydan]

My books are sorted by height. I know where they are because I remember and that is reinforced each time I clean up. The secret is pretty judgmental on the reviewing side of things. I have never been great at expressing my opinions on books, and if I do want to ramble about a book I tend to want to talk about things other people would want hidden for spoiler reasons. I still read piles of books each year and think about them critically.

[(Anonymous)]

For me it;s actually less about "why so colour-coordinated" and more "how do you do it that all of your books are new, where are the old ones?", because really - all of the titles are from the last three years or so.

[(Anonymous)]

I can live with cutesy organizational tactics (if it works, it works!). But it seems like everyone who has a social media presence based around their reading habit reads almost exclusively YA and MG, which bugs me a lot. Teenagers, fine, I"m glad you're excited about reading, but the ones in their mid-20s or early 30s...

I mean I'm here for a fun YA or MG read once in a while, my GR account can attest to that, but variety and challenging yourself once in a while is important!

[cloudtrader]

As part of my job, I post in the #bookstagram tag at least 3 times a day, and absolutely NONE of my posts look that pretty. I'm jealous. However, the books I post about are 100 times cooler than that shit, so it's all good. LOL