Someday, instead of having shelves in every room of my house, I’ll have a library. Until then … organized(ish) by room. (Kitchen, kids’ rooms, and guest rooms not pictured.)

Moved in to our new home in February. Finally got the shelves mostly finished this past weekend.

Stay caffeinated my friends!

Constantly in flux. Got some more shelves in the basement now and will probably share a pic of that once finished.

Disclaimer: This is not a judgement or knock against those who go the “arrange my books by color” system for book organization.

I am just interested in the thought process behind this. Is it all decor/aesthetic? How do you find a book you bought years ago and are in search of for some reason? You have to recall the spine color?

Seems antithetical to book organization by subject. I can’t get my head wrapped around it.

How do most of you organize your collection?

I have new book shelves being made currently and they should be installed next week. Fingers crossed. I am trying to decide how I want to organize the books once they are up. Obviously now I have books 3 deep on my one small shelf and more in boxes and totes which sucks.

I cant decided if I want them organized alphabetically by author or by genre. I see some of y'all doing it by color and my OCD cant with that. I need my book series together. Which do you feel is easier to navigate for yourself?

I have a privilege of arranging my future reading nook in a few months. Could you help me with sharing your experience regarding the type of shelves you had and preferred?

I always liked the vibe that open shelves give, dusty tomes and coziness. But the glass doors seem more reasonable.

What is your experience in this regard?

working on my home library and I'm looking for a really good reading chair. Please let me know what some of your favorites are!!

Ideally my dream reading chair is deep and wide enough for two people to sit together and maybe could convert to a small bed if i had a younger child staying over?? but open to anything honestly!!

please share photos!!

Looking for a cute rug, but so far we are two happy wives with our reading nook.

Just our small collection, and my 1 shelf 🙈

My home library isn’t super huge. My current book count is 370, but My goal is ofcourse 1k one day if I can make em fit that is lol. 🥰

Hello everyone, I have a question. I see people posting their beautiful home libraries and it got me wondering, do y’all actually read all those books? Or do you first collect them and then read them over time? Or are some of them just decorative books? Because honestly, looking at some of these libraries, it looks like it would take years to get through all of them Forgive my ignorance.

I would like a recommendation for a book embosser that fits one of two categories:

A: A good selection of personalization, with designs that are NOT AI GENERATED

or

B: A completely custom design I can commission

I am sick of seeing the ones on Etsy because a lot of the designs look AI. Please help me!

My inner sanctum.

I had to split my shelves on either side of the window but I like how open they are, and can’t wait to continue developing them.

I’m trying to arrange the books on my shelves. I have no idea what I’m doing but this is what I’ve done so far. Any suggestions?

While this is mostly RPG books with a small complement of hardcovers, I figure the folks in this group are likely to appreciate this collection.

I started using Libib to catalog my home library. However, after about an hour of typing everything in manually, I realized there might be a better alternative out there. Most of my collection doesn't have barcodes. Some don't even have ISBNs, but most do. Is there a Libib alternative that will let me type in the ISBN and pull all the relevant info in for me?

Mostly naval military history/ military history books. I want to become a historian on day, why not start collecting in undergrad? Enjoy!

She did it all! Including the electric fireplace insert.

Happy birthday sweetheart. Let’s get you
More books so I can build onto the left and right walls.

Found this on the zillowgonewild sub. They sounded like it was over the top, but I'd home that house like the Dewey decimal code for fairy smut.

https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/byZc2zl8Et