BLOG 20- Annie Deitz

How To Organize your Bookshelf
There are multiple ways to organize your bookshelf. In this short-ish blog post, I'll guide you through the two basic approaches used by masters today. From here you can decide to use one of my techniques or build upon them and create your own. Organizing a bookshelf is a fun, unique experience for every partaker. However, keep in mind that organizing a bookshelf IS NOT for everyone, and it is not an easy thing to do. ANYWAyssss....

• The Basic Approach.

The basic approach is great for beginners, and provides you with an sensible bookshelf with easily accessible books. It works for all types of bookshelves. It can also work for different types of sorting!! Movies, cd's, you name it!!!

1.) Pull out all of your books. Ensure that you have ample space

2.) Begin sorting your books into twenty six piles, depending on the first letter of the author's last name. Some amateurs sort them using the first letter of the author's FIRST name. DO NOT DO THIS!!! You will  be the laughingstock of all of your friends and family.

3.) Once you've completed this preliminary sorting, alphabetize each pile.

4.) After alphabetizing all of the piles, begin putting them in your bookshelf, starting with A from the right side of the top row, ending with Z at the left end of the bottom shelf.

5.) Congrats! You have organized your bookshelf and are well on your way to becoming an expert bookshelf organizer!!!

 

• The Aesthetically Pleasing Approach

If the basic approach seems a little dull to you, or you're concerned with the negative aura that a strangely colored bookshelf could bring to your room, this is the approach for you!!!!
1.) Again, pull out all of your books, ensuring that there is ample space in the room.
2.) This time, however, create only seven piles- a red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Sort books based on the color of their book cover. If a cover is a derivation of another color, put it into that pile (ex. Pink into red)
3.) You may have noticed that I skipped a pile in step two. If so, wow! You really are a bookshelving wiz! If not, don't worry. So pile seven is composed of the random colors- brown, white, black, etc. These require a special sorting style.
4.) Check to see if the brown covers could fit into another categories- sometimes a lighter brown could fit into yellow.
5.) If not, you'll put them in at the end.
6.) Sort white, black, and gray books in order from lightest to darkest. Put them into the bookshelf first.
7.) Now place all of your books in your bookshelf, in rainbow order (Remember: ROYGBV!!!)
8.) Finally, put those brown books in, completing your bookshelf organization!