I’ve decided to sort my books. I have four bookcases in my room, giving 21 shelves, and another two cases in the attic. Lots of books, most of which are where they are simply because that’s the only place there was room for them.
So now they’re not on the shelves, but rather on the floor. Yay. All are being catalogued and sorted, and will then be reshelved according to an approximation of the Dewey Decimal System. An approximation, because there are various books/types of book that I want/have to put in different places.
Various facts and figures:
- I’ve catalogued 750 books so far, and haven’t started on those in the attic.
- I’ve only found 3 duplicates (as in, exactly identical books). One’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, one is Pears Ultimate Quiz Companion, and one is a 1964 Livres de Poche edition of Zola’s Germinal.
- There are 34 Harry Potter books on my shelves, in five languages, with only the one duplicate.
- Somewhat inevitably, the busiest Dewey numbers are 440 and 840 (French Language and French Literature, respectively).
- The ISBN was invented before the barcode.