When I moved in with my (now) husband, I kind of took over the den and used it as my book room (we also have a computer and t.v. in there, plus a futon for when guests stay over), but didn’t bother organizing anything at the time. I finally got sick of it not being able to find anything and decided to alphabetize them. With the help of my son, we managed to do it in about 3 hours.
I didn’t include pictures of the other 2 shelves I have (mostly because I’m lazy and don’t feel like snapping more pictures) but you get the idea.
I alphabetize by author, then put in order of series. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I still need to put these in order of series. Eh, this is good enough for now.
I’m curious..how do you shelve your books? Do you alphabetize? Have some other crazy system only you can decipher? Something else?