[bksvol-discuss] Re: Storing and Organizing Books

We now have bookscases, but before we did that, when
we lived in an apartment, we used the brick-and-board
system. You can get square white blocks--I don't know
what they're called but they sometimes have cut-out
designs; pile a couple or two ore three on tap of
teach other, and then stretch boards across. Depending
on how long or short you want your bookscases, you can
put them at each end (shorter) or at each and and in
the middle (longer). You can make the bookcases as
high as you want. I think my husband may have
bracketed the wood to the wall, but maybe not.

Both then and in my bookcases I organize them by
type--nonfiction reference; biography;history;
science. Fiction by genre, though now I'm trying to
eliminate books and borrow from the library, but when
I do buy used books now I just shove them into the
bookcase so the books by the same author are together.


G. Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, everybody. I'm asking this question on the
> volunteers list because I 
> think more people on this list might understand my
> question. For those 
> of you with large collections of print books, how do
> you store and 
> organize them so you know what they are? For now, I
> have several giant 
> stacks on my desk and a 3-drawer plastic unit full
> of paperbacks. I also 
> have 3 closet shelves with multiple stacks of books
> on it. I think I 
> need a bookcase of some sort, but I am totally lost
> with putting things 
> together with a hammer and nails. Do any of you know
> about any kind of 
> storage units that don't require major assembly? My
> book chaos is 
> getting out of hand, and there's got to be a better
> way to do this. I 
> need to sit down for a few weeks and scan for
> several hours a day to get 
> out from under my stacks of books on my desk. They
> are wish list books 
> and should be done first. It would be nice to see
> the base unit for my 
> cordless phone without reaching carefully behind two
> towering stacks of 
> books. (smile) One stack of books is over three feet
> tall. Yikes!
> 
> Monica Willyard
> 



      
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