#Bloggiesta Mini Challenge: Organize them Books!

Jenn’s Bookshelves is hosting this mini challenge and there aren’t much guidelines to join. But heck.. something fill it up I guess. Here are a few info on how I organize my books.


How do I keep up with what I have in my collection? 
I found great sites just for tracking my books at Goodreads & Librarything. Both of which are accessible by my phone and easily maintain. I occasionally download my list to keep up and do some manual stuff through my computer via Excel. In that file, I have it organized much more to ‘Price’, ‘Author’, ‘Title’, ‘Series’, ‘Genre’, ‘Year Acquired’, 'Copy' (subdivide to ARC, Review, Borrowed, Bought). I must admit I haven’t been very nice with this excel list.

Bookshelves organization?
Physical Bookshelves.

I have a few places where I store my books:
• 2 book shelves
• 5 big Storage containers,
• 6 delivery boxes (I have yet to unpack)
• a couple of boxes of books for garagesale
• my external hard drives.

Divided by Fiction, Non-Fiction & Reference. Series are all grouped together.  My ARC & Review books are all placed together on a separate shelf so I don’t get them mixed up with my books.

Online Database (GR, LT, Excel). My system is very much OCD-ed. Tags are my organization best friend and my enemy roll in one.

• TBR, Read, Wishlist
• Fiction, Non-Fiction & Reference
• Sub-Divide:  Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literary, etc.
• Author, Title, Year acquired,  Publicist, Country, Arc, Review… etc…

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