Friday, July 22, 2005
(10:35 PM) | Anonymous:
Adam Robinson hates me, but I'm doing his meme anyway because I like his glasses.
1. How do you organize your collection?I have a bad system. Hayley and I have two bookshelves, three if you count the hutch. On my own bookshelf I have all my academic stuff, which is alphabetized. On the bookcase Hayley brought with her I have all our 'fiction', which we tend to share. In the hutch are all Hayley's coffee table and kitsch books.
2. What books or records do you keep separate from your collection for easy access?
I have four piles of books. One pile for what I plan to have read soon, another for books I'm selling on Amazon.com, another for books I'm taking to Powell's and a pile on my computer desk of workbooks that I should be working my way through. The pile that I should be reading through tends to grow in ways I don't want it to, usually making me feel as if I'm fighting an unending battle. I should change this system for morale reasons.
3. When you take down a book for reference, how long after you finish with it does it take you to reshelf it?
I either do it right away or it sits on my desk for anywhere from a day to a week and a half.
4. What resource do you keep separate from your collection because you don't want anyone to know you have it?
I wouldn't call them resources since I never use them for anything, but I have exiled all the C.S. Lewis books to the join bookshelf even though half of them count in some weird way as theory. I've considered getting rid of some of the theology stuff that I doubt I will ever use again (i.e. Barth's Evangelical Theology) and some of the cheap editions of Locke and shit. I did get rid of all the books I had to use in my "Post-Modern Political Theory" class. With names like Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be they were pretty embarrassing to have on my shelf.
