Or buy another copy...! (Christopher, missed a trick there!)
Shelving and Cataloging
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Or buy another copy...! (Christopher, missed a trick there!)
^^Well, if he buried it in the backyard, he'd probably need another copy anyway, unless it was wrapped in plastic or something. You don't expect to me to spell everything out explicitly, do ya? 
I have a bookshelf full of Trek novels, and my headboard/bookshelf is about half-full. I've got my Trek novels in chronological order, going by the VoI timeline. For anything that's been published since VoI I use this timeline: http://www.geocities.com/cwinifred/Timeline.htm
Then I have the Badlands duology, SCE omnibuse(s), and anthologies (in alphabetical order). The next shelf down has non-trek novels in alphabetical order by series, and publication order within the series. Original novels are last in alphabetical order.
Then I have the Badlands duology, SCE omnibuse(s), and anthologies (in alphabetical order). The next shelf down has non-trek novels in alphabetical order by series, and publication order within the series. Original novels are last in alphabetical order.
I don't know if this will help anyone, but I have decided to take on a personal project of digitally shelving Trek books via Spreadsheet that may help answer questions on how to shelve. Once done, I'd be happy to send out copies to those who want them.
There is a timeline on Memory Beta, but it's seperated into pages by century, decade, and year.
I use to catalog by chronological order, but it's just too messy. I like to line up books with matching spines.
^ Messy indeed. Poor Articles of the Federation would need to be ripped apart to shelve it in this manner.
^^Generally when there's a chronological overlap, I'll sort a given book by when it begins, unless there's a compelling reason to do otherwise. Actually, though, that got so awkward in some cases that I now have my bookcase further subdivided: most of the personal-continuity stuff is in chronological order, but those books that span multiple time periods, such as anthologies, omnibuses, or things like The Eugenics Wars and The Brave and the Bold, are in a separate section before the chronological section.
However, I make an exception for AotF, because I see it as something of a continuation of A Time for War, A Time for Peace. I have that placed by when it begins, i.e. between The Red King and Orion's Hounds.
However, I make an exception for AotF, because I see it as something of a continuation of A Time for War, A Time for Peace. I have that placed by when it begins, i.e. between The Red King and Orion's Hounds.
i had a dilemma about where to shelf Destiny today. between TNG-R or after TTN and went with after TTN...
My books are shelved in publication order by series, or they will be by the time i finish.
Like Christopher, I always shelved those where the story started. Which worked nice for time-spanning stories with frames, like The Eugenics Wars. I shelved anthologies by where the first story in the volume took place, which meant The Enterprise Logs was the first book on my shelf and that the Strange New Worlds volumes were sort of randomly jumbled throughout the 2260s.^ Messy indeed. Poor Articles of the Federation would need to be ripped apart to shelve it in this manner.
Like I said, it was messy.
Destiny I would count as a non-series book, so it would get shelved with those in publication order, which means it would go after Terok Nor, I suppose. It's all a bit of a moot point these days, though, given I only have the space to shelve, of my sf collection, hardcovers and trade paperbacks (and only just barely).
I shelve stuff by order of series (ENT, TOS, VAN LE TNG, DS9(series), VOY, NF, Post-finale DS9, IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire (I have Diplomatic Implausability with the first IKS Gorkon), A Time To..., TTN/TNG-Post Nemesis (I actually have Q&A between Orion's Hounds and Sword of Damocles), Destiny) then I have stuff in release order with in the series. Then I have the Mirror Universe, and Myriad Universe books on a lower shelf along with a bunch of old books that aren't part of that I haven't read yet.
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