Have to admit I was expecting something like that but didn't know how to change the wording of the title PS: Local booksellers all the way. They pay their taxes....
I don't have any independent shops around me so I'm stuck with online or the brick and mortar stores. I wasn't really serious about buying tons of books to pump up your book sales either. However, it must be glorious to go to a B+N and see your book on the shelf.
I have the collections divided by series and then further divided by re-launch. I think I've also got The Typhon Pact books and The Fall books all together in a collection.
Diverging from the topic a bit, but it's a pretty common practice in the political book realm, because it's a quick way to get the book listed on best-seller lists or to get high sales numbers that you can legally promote. Usually not the person themselves, though, but some sort of tenuously connected third party buying it in large numbers, often afterwards giving them out as gifts to donors or something like that. It's not actually fraud because the book is being sold, but it's definitely questionable. The idea is you lose money on the book in exchange for increasing prominence or awareness in the field and/or get true book sales accelerating after that by being able to claim it's a best-seller.
My brother had a lecturer at uni who would reimburse students with his share of the royalties, but only if they could show him the receipt to prove they bought a brand new copy. Pretty sure that was just to help out students with ever increasing costs though...
I go by series, but with the crossover titles I'll stick them in between he different series. But I also put the books in chronological order. So I have "Starfleet Year One" leading off my shelves, then it goes onto Enterprise, the Bantam/Ballantine TOS novels, followed by Pocket's TOS, and then TNG's Starfleet Academy before the main TNG novels.
I've got them ordered by series, then by publication date. I've placed all the on-screen series first (based on premiere date - TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT) followed by the book-only series (again, by date of first published novel - i.e. New Frontier prior to Stargazer prior to Vanguard).
I'm all e-book now, too many kids taking up all the space I used to have for books. I have a spreadsheet where i have attempted to place the novels in chronological order. The relaunch novels hang together time wise pretty well, for those novels that cover a long period of time I have placed them at their finishing date. That works for me :-).
I have a spreadsheet chronology too, and I've sometimes wondered if having it means I no longer need to keep the actual bookshelves in chronological order. But it's too ingrained a habit to abandon easily.
I love reading threads like this - I dream of being so organised! I moved to this house ten years ago and I still don't have enough bookshelves up...
I feel like this thread needs pics of peoples bookshelves. Especially @Christopher's. His has me intrigued to see. I have so few real books I won't bother posting mine.
Your picture didn't get posted. Here's my tie-in bookcase. The skull and crossbones is covering up my high school and grade school year books. Other than my yearbooks everything in this one is a tie-in or behind the scenes book. Here's my headboard bookcase, which is where I put all of the paper books I either haven't read or plan on rereading.
Sorry, I didn't see the bottom part of your post there. If you want to post pictures, you need to have them posted to another site first, click on the button with the mountains and sun between the smilie and film strip, then just post the URL in window that pops up.