chris martenscontroversial question time
how do you organize books on your home bookshelf?
Nicole 🏳️⚧️ 🌈@chrisamaphone
rough categories:
- math textbooks adjacent
- comp sci textbooks adjacent
- my grandpa's stem books get a whole skinny bookcase
- philosophy/religion together
- leadership/management/etc. together
- tech together
within each category it's just whatever order, usually random and then the order of acquisition as I add onto the end
textbooks at the bottom of the cases for stability, and otherwise I do think a bit about what I want visible in video chats
@chrisamaphone that's just my office bookcases. the ones in the rest of the house are:
- cooking related (a couple in my office, handy references in the kitchen, the rest in the dining room)
- english fiction (first floor living room)
- russian fiction and my wife's books (our bedroom)
- some other religion books (living room)
and then fiction gets broken down a bit by vibe/genre
it's surprisingly easy for me, but only me, to find any book I own
@nicole i have a friend who once showed me his “religion” bookshelf. it contained the bible, tao te ching, quran, and Types and Programming Languages
@chrisamaphone ahh haha that's amazing. now I wonder what I should mix into the religion shelf.
also realizing that my religion shelf in my office only has comparative religion texts, no sources. our only primary text (faith & practice from PYM) is in our living room. maybe I've gotta fix this.