Love how cataloging forces you to confront the weird adjacencies between books. I did something similar couple years back (not quite 2000 tho) and ended up grouping my sci-fi stuff alphabetically cuz the LOC numbers felt too granular for fiction. The tsundoku reference is spot on tho, always end up with more shelf space dedicated to books I havent read than ones Ive finished.
Thanks for writing. I appreciate your comments. You are right about trying to cram too much science fiction from the same era into an easy LOC classification. I solved that problem by passing many of these books along to my sons, cluttering their shelves! I still keep my early Heinlein books from adolescence and Le Guin's classics, but some of the recent great books by Niven and Pournelle, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Pierce Brown, John Sclazi, and James Islington have already left the house!
Love how cataloging forces you to confront the weird adjacencies between books. I did something similar couple years back (not quite 2000 tho) and ended up grouping my sci-fi stuff alphabetically cuz the LOC numbers felt too granular for fiction. The tsundoku reference is spot on tho, always end up with more shelf space dedicated to books I havent read than ones Ive finished.
Thanks for writing. I appreciate your comments. You are right about trying to cram too much science fiction from the same era into an easy LOC classification. I solved that problem by passing many of these books along to my sons, cluttering their shelves! I still keep my early Heinlein books from adolescence and Le Guin's classics, but some of the recent great books by Niven and Pournelle, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Pierce Brown, John Sclazi, and James Islington have already left the house!