When I saw this, I remembered that I saw this idea in a book about interior design, which I actually checked out of the library because, what, I was going to . . . ? Well, I liked the pictures, and anyway: in this book, this wildly hilariously incongruous book, I saw that someone had had the aesthetically pleasing idea of organizing their books by color, which it appears Ms. Bingaman-Burt has done. Lovely! I thought, so I decided to do the same.
Who can spot the problem with this scheme? Well, I went ahead and did it anyway, and here's the in-progress result (I'm not showing you the shelves of theory, the spines of which should all be a soul-crushing gray):
Pretty, right? Now, how will I find my books if I can't remember what color they are? The same way I find them now, when I haven't put them in the appropriate section: by scanning the shelves for minutes on end until I remember that the one I want the one I need the one I must have right now now now is probably under my side of the bed, because that's where I was reading it last.
There are other ways to organize your books besides by color?
ReplyDeleteI love this idea. MB will never go for it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Always remember that a primary school MB would line his books up by size, from biggest to smallest. Even he can handle non-alphabetical organization if pressed.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing your exhibit! In SF, at Midnight Books, I think, an artist did a similar thing for a few weeks. Smashing. I particularly love the red family on your shelves.
ReplyDeleteI love the books, who says that isn't the best way to do your books?
ReplyDeletePretty! Mine are organized alphabetically by title. Like a boring person would.
ReplyDeletei love the organized chaos that is your study.
ReplyDeleteit is very poetic. haha
idk, i just wanted to help! :D
Perhaps best success results when we *buy* our books by color?
ReplyDelete(I'm imagining a whole wall of books shading from celadon to robin's egg - with three red books alternating :red:celadon: red:celadon:red: very, very occasionally.)