How We Organize Our Books at Grasping for the Wind

Earlier this week, John Ottinger of Grasping for the Wind posted another of his ‘Inside the Blogosphere’ interview series, where he asks fellow book bloggers a question about books or reading and posts everyone’s results. ‘How do you organize your library’ was the question this time around, and John got a lot of terrific responses (and some pictures of blogger’s personal collections) which you can read all about right here.

Great responses from some familiar names, and I think I may have picked up a few ideas for my own shelves from reading everyone’s responses. If, like me, you are instantly drawn to a person’s books when visiting their home, you’ll get a lot of enjoyment from scrutinizing the pictures that accompany the posts, and it’s always fun to spot books that you yourself own in someone else’s stacks. One contributer even sent in a flickr slideshow of her collection.

Because of some unexplained weirdness, my own contribution to the conversation would not paste into John’s post nicely, so he graciously allowed me my own post, entitled ‘Late to the Party‘ (and no, I’m not devious enough to do that on purpose in order to get my own post — or, more importantly, smart enough). By chance, I happened to be in the middle of a book purge when John sent the question around, so these things were uppermost on my mind when I responded. My picture, which is only one shelf, is of a bookshelf that I’ve had since I was a kid — and old Betamax shelf bought from Erol’s video when they switched entirely to VHS. It makes a great mass market shelf.

Another fun feature from Grasping for the Wind, one bibliophiles will not want to miss.