gnomadiclibrarian:

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keplercryptids:

I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”

him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books

me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect

him: [self-destructs]

You’re a monster

As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?

it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.

my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.

Now that I think about it, I do know most of the colors of the books I own.

my books are organized by a system that would make zero sense to anyone but me. “so, here you’ll find the books i’ve read with my book club. here are the books i’ve received as ARCs. Neil Gaiman gets his own shelf because he’s a badass.” etc. lol 

basically, it’s a mess. 

How do you organize your books? 

As a librarian who at one point in my life did in fact organize my books by color, I find OP’s rationale really interesting (& their story hilarious)! Personally, I stopped that organization scheme because I didn’t have enough different colors, so it really didn’t look great aesthetically, and it started to really bother me that authors’ works were all scattered. But I’m really interested in the tactile nature of texts, challenging traditional organizational structures, and how people interact with information in their own individual ways!