[link] organization by color!

[wispfox]

books, organized by color! - link seen in nikkinewsnet.

I am greatly pleased by this. The joy, the joy! The absurdity of what books might now be next to other books!

Color-sorting... yes. Just as long as you don't need to find anything, of course. ;)

Comments

[beowabbit]

Actually, I often have an easier time remembering the colour of the book I read something interesting in than the title or author. (Especially if it was a short story in an anthology.) I think that scheme would be adequate for me for finding things. Not great, but adequate.

[rosefox]

I remember short stories in older anthologies by typeface and texture. "Oh, that must have been in a Judith Merrill best-of because it's all squinchy and the paper is brittle." Newer ones are harder because the fonts all look the same! I also go by era of my life when I remember first reading the story, i.e. was it during my Terry Carr phase or my Martin Greenberg phase? I might remember hardback vs. paperback or themed antho vs. single-author vs. best of the year, but that's about it.

I have an entire floor-to-ceiling bookshelf of anthologies, so these things are important. *)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of anthologies! And I thought _I_ liked anthologies. ;)

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

I definitely remember some books by color and cover picture/theme.

I just wish that I had some good way to organize by books... which currently involves getting a lot more shelving and moving some place stable so that I can use that shelving.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Actually.... back when I worked ay B&N, people would constantly come in looking for that book, y'know, it was here last week, it had a red cover..?

[geekchick]

I always thought that was a joke...until I spent some time working in a bookstore. "I don't remember who wrote it or what the title was, but it was fiction and I remember it had a blue cover."

[opalmirror.livejournal.com]

I had dinner in SF last night, could've gone over and seen this installation! Cool!

[jasra]

Ooh, that's a fun way to organize your books. I don't have enough books currently to do that though they are pretty randomly on the shelves (post-move task not done yet).

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Aren't they so pretty? :) I really hope they combined putting them back in regular order with inventory...why go through all that twice? I'll bet putting them in color order was *fun*.

Gessi

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

inventory: good point! Wow.

And yeah, I suspect the color ordering was really fun to do. :)

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

I'm soooo going to see that when I get home. . .

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Did you?

[fraterrisus]

*nods* my ex used to organize her books that way. drove me ballistic. i could never find anything after she organized the bookshelves...

[kar0na.livejournal.com]

My OCD likes this!!! *twitch*

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Heh! Mine, too. :)

Although mine's fairly minor.

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

One of the internet libraries for children offers a search by color option. Of course, I can't remember which one right now.