5 Oct 2014

Rearranging My Bookshelves!

I'm warning you all right now, this is going to be a very, very, very long post so I suggest you go and get yourself a cup of tea and something to snack on before you get started. Are you ready? ( I can't believe you actually made a post about this my dearest. She's right folks! Hold on for a long ride! - C)

I've been meaning to properly rearrange my bookshelves for ages now, but usually I just move about five books around and tweet about how I'm rearranging my bookshelves. However, last Saturday- I actually, finally, did it and this is going to be my (not so) little post about it!

So this is my main bookshelf before I attacked it, as well as my little 'immediate TBR' shelf. I should mention that all of these books are my TBR pile...yes, I really do have a problem.

First I moved all my library/books from a friend off my shelves as well as some other things- like my two awesome cameras, my insane collection of bookmarks and this cute reading sign thingy. My shelves looked slightly better after that...


Then I decided I was going to put all the books I was 'currently reading' (see books that have a bookmark in) into the little shelf. So I took out all those books from my shelves, as well as the ones already in my 'immediate TBR' shelf.


Then I took out all the other books in that shelf. As you can probably imagine, by this time I was already surrounded by books. In fact, when my brother came in to see why I was yelling out some rather inappropriate words (because books being dropped on feet is not fun), he asked when I was going to sacrifice a goat and summon the book devil.

I decided then that I was going to write down all the books and the page I was on, which ended up in with the books being organised by size and then the number of pages I read. For example, I've only read 12 pages of Stray so that's on the bottom but I've read 359 pages of The Sweet Far Thing.


Unfortunately, not all the shelves are the same size in this bookcase so it meant that I had to mix it up a little. Also, The Fellowship of the Ring refused to fit anywhere so it kind of got dumped on the top there.



I decided to keep these three out because, ONE- I'm currently reading Heir of Fire and World After, and TWO- there's no way they could have fit. And then I had a little bit of a freak out...where I regretted ever starting this so I tweeted about it and tried to make Chami feel sorry for me. (That didn't exactly work out). (It hurt me more than it hurt you - C)



I ended up picking out the books on my October and RYBSAT TBR so they could take prime place on my shelves. And I played a little game of 'Spot the Allen & Unwin books' which is something I do waaaaaaay more often than I should.


Then there was some more sitting back and regretting my choice and some 'WHY DO I HAVE SOME MANY BOOKS?' (and if my brother asks, some more book devil summonings). Slowly, I started to move things around and the pile on my floor wasn't so bad anymore! (Who knew I ever had a floor?)


Finally, these were the only books I couldn't find anyway (sure, I had to get creative with some of them) but luckily most of these already have homes in other bookcases.

And the final result...


I'm sorry it's not the world's best photo but by that time it was already six o'clock at night and I had no natural light left. I will be doing a shelf-by-shelf bookshelf tour soon (I'm not even going to try going book by book)...hopefully. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this post and let me know how you organise your shelves!

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Lovely books! Lovely shelves! :)
1 reply · active 551 weeks ago
Thank you so much!
Oh good grief! So many books and you must be exhausted! The end result looks fabulous though, incredibly neat and tidy. I love your honey wood bookshelf, I want one exactly like that. I like the quirky ones and that looks perfect for my odd series books that don't match up.

I think a celebration is in order for a job well done... Celebrate by buying more books! Hooray! :D
1 reply · active 551 weeks ago
You have no idea, Kelly! It was originally for dvds, but then books started to take over...as they usually do :) Haha, I'm trying to avoid buying any books until I actually have somewhere to put them!
YOU HAVE SO MANY BOOKS. And it's beautiful. And, gosh, I would love to be your neighbour so I could just like borrow books occasionally because boooooks. xD I love the organisation, though! I want to colour code mine at the end of the year. ^-^
1 reply · active 551 weeks ago
This isn't even including my read ones...so yes, I have A LOT OF BOOKS. *moves you next door* Problem solved? Oh, I'd love to colour code mine too but I don't have the patience for that sort of thing!
Oh wow Ely that was keen! Well done, it looks like a LOT of effort but the end result does look good! My bookshelves are arranged alphabetically (boring) but in another life I think I was a librarian soooo yeah haha. We have a (small) library in my house so we just keep buying bookshelves until we have nowhere left to put them. Then they go on top of the bookshelves, on the floor, wherever, but still in alphabetical order :P
1 reply · active 551 weeks ago
I think it took about two or so hours in total, but it was totally worth it :) I definitely have to have my books arranged alphabetically otherwise I'd just never find anything! There are another six bookshelves in my house that are also filled with books, mostly mine but my brother and mum have a few too. We're definitely running out of room!
YOU HAVE SO MANY BOOKS WHAT! My bookcase is tiny and sad, and I don't even have that many books to begin with! But I'm hoping that will change someday soon. Maybe. Anyways, I LOVE YOUR BOOKCASES I WANT THEM!
1 reply · active 551 weeks ago
I DO! Would you be willing to take some off my hands? :P (I'm kidding, touch my books and I'll throw food at you, or something) YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY BOOKCASES *cough* I mean, thanks for dropping by Val :P
Ohh, that would have taken 10 MILLION YEEEEAAARS. I love it. So exhausting though. This post was very entertaining to read, but it also made me glad that my books are spread between 3 houses...although I do want to get some nice matching bookshelves and bring them all into the one house...but that probably won't happen for years, and by then I'll have even more books...ugggghhhh the never-ending struggles of being a book-lover. I swear, people think our lives are so easy.
1 reply · active 549 weeks ago
It did, it really did. I know - it's a hard life being a book-lover!

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