Shelving and Cataloging

[OmahaStar]

Well, for Trek, I use a simple system that covers everything *except* books by DeCandido. First are those books which are signed, then those books that are not signed. Then there are those by DeCandido, and they are on their own shelves, since there are so dang many. lol

And, given how many books you hauled to Dragon*Con, they're all signed at this point, yeah? And thanks....

Don't forget previous Dragon*Cons and Shore Leave. And .. no. I've found more since then. *sigh* It wouldn't be this bad, except, your books are really *good* ... even when you're doing novelizations with extremely weak source material. I dunno who you sold your soul to, but you got the good end of that deal.

 

[KRAD]

^ Well, it's not like I was using the soul for anything. I mean, have you seen me try to dance? *shudder*

 

[Defcon]

I have the books shelved by Series, within the series I have the numbered first from 1 onward, then the respective relaunch in order of publication and finally the unnumbered standalones alphabetically. Crossovers and books not belonging to a specific series are last, also ordered alphabetically.

 

[OmahaStar]

^ Well, it's not like I was using the soul for anything. I mean, have you seen me try to dance? *shudder*

Yes. The brain bleach. It does nothing for that memory.

 

[Turbo]

^ Well, it's not like I was using the soul for anything. I mean, have you seen me try to dance? *shudder*

See, this is why I play saxophone. It's the about only thing my soul's got going for it.

Unfortunately, most of my books are in storage right now, but I tend to organize them by series.

 

[Jim Johnson]

I have two short bookcases for Trek. All the MMPBs are sorted by series and stacked two deep since I only have so much room. Hardcovers and trade paperbacks are sorted more or less by series. The bigger books like the chronology, encyclopedia, RPG books, and the other non-fiction reference books (and a magazine holder containing all my Trek magazines) are on the bottom shelves of the bookcases.

Works well enough, though at some point I need to replace the 6' shelves in my office with 7' or 8' shelves to give myself that much more space for books.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm gonna have to add more shelving soon, because I'm quickly running out due to the number of books I continue to buy. I will also have to replace my six-foot-long desk with a three-foot one so I can add a bookcase.

 

[captcalhoun]

non-canon TOS
TOS
VGD
NF
DS9
SCE
series-TNG
GKN
ATT
TNGR
TTN
Shatnerverse

Intriguing ordering. What do you classify as non-canon TOS?

wrong 'C' word, i meant non-continuity. and: Federation

 

[Gaius Polt]

I stack my books in series order - numbered first and then in order of release. Hardbacks are separate from MP or TP.

Oh heck. Here just look. Here is a picture of my bookcase.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48252043@N00/2918915573/

I am a timeliner, so I have pretty much all of them...

This is an older photograph, I have models on the other wall now.

I know... I bleed trek...

Polt

 

[DeeEss57]

My MMPB Trek books are shelved by series, in order of publication, each series having its own paperback bookcase. TPB and HC books have another bookcase, in which they are shelved by publication date. TNG is in the dining room, near my computer desk. TOS (I don't read DS9 or VOY) are kept in the 'Trek room'.

At the very bottom of my TNG bookcase, are my CSI and James Rollins MMPB, shelved by publication date. There's also a few books I have purchased but not yet read, but when they've been read, they'll be joining the collection in the 'library', with my parents' books.

All of my parents' MMPB are shelved in another room to themselves (the 'library'), in nine home-made PB bookshelves and nine boxes. Currently, they are in whatever order my parents had them in, but when I find the time, I shall be rearranging them by genre and author. Same with all of my non-Trek books, which shall be joining them, eventually.

The Trek reference books are on still another shelf, easlily available to me when on the computer. They're in no particular order, though.

As for cataloguing, only my parents collection is in the process of being catalogued in a spreadsheet database, since I'm not really sure exactly what I've got. There's about thirty years of PB collecting there, but I know I've got lots of Doc Savage, Nick Carter, sci-fi, westerns and mystery. I've only gone through the nine boxes and two of the bookcases and I'm up to 638 books.

You know, the most disturbing thing to me was when I cleaned out my parents' house, one of my relatives questioned why I kept the books. To me that's just the damned stupidest question.



DES
Save one life and you're a hero.
Save 230 million and you're a Starfleet officer.

 

[Thrawn]

Eugenics Wars
Enterprise
TOS numbered / non-canon / reprints
recent TOS (Crucible, Ex Machina)
New Earth
Vanguard
Lost Era (Forged In Fire, Lost Era proper, Stargazer, Buried Age, Terok Nor)
TNG numbered, un-numbered, A Time To..., relaunch
DS9 numbered, un-numbered, relaunch
VOY numbered, un-numbered, relaunch
NF
GKN
TTN
Articles Of The Federation, Destiny, soon A Singular Destiny
Mirror Universe, Myriad Universes
Crossovers (Invasion, Day Of Honor, Captain's Table, Double Helix, Section 31, Gateways, Brave & Bold)
Anthologies
A few more books that I own that I don't plan on including in my canon and/or start series I haven't read (first two SCE, Vulcan's Forge, first two Shatnerverse, first SNW)

Closest I could get to something chronological that still preserved in-series ordering.

 

[ronny]

I'm totally sloppy by everyone's standards, including my own. I started off with everything with a series in order, etc but I filled up my small area of shelves I just stacking up books on the shelves as I read them. I'm keep planning on putting the series where I've read all the books in boxes and keep books where I'm still reading series as I reminder what to pick up when I see them at the used book stores.

 

[SciFiChick]

I really miss the different Trek series being numbered. It helped this mildly OCD person organize them easily.

 

[JD]

I've found it rather ironic that the numbering has stoped as books have become more interconnected. Although, I guess if they were to be numbered it would be kinda hard to figure out how to deal with things like the Gateways, and Section 31 books.

 

[Ferd Burfel]

I have to turn mine so they stack with the spine's outward. I stack from bottom to top in order of the series. I have them separated by series and have the relaunches separate from the older ones. And I have the manuals and magazines separated on a different shelf. And I just noticed that I have about four bookcases with Star Trek on it.

 

[Turbo]

I've found it rather ironic that the numbering has stoped as books have become more interconnected. Although, I guess if they were to be numbered it would be kinda hard to figure out how to deal with things like the Gateways, and Section 31 books.

Invasion and Day of Honor were simply part of each line's respective number system. (Invasion #4 was also Voyager #9, for instance.)

Personally, I don't see what value the numbering system added to the books, especially since they weren't in chronological order. It also made the numbered books appear "lesser" than the unnumbered paperbacks (of which there weren't that many).

 

[kissthestar]

I can't believe I just read through this entire thread. I've just GOT to get a life...

 

[Stevil2001]

I've found it rather ironic that the numbering has stoped as books have become more interconnected. Although, I guess if they were to be numbered it would be kinda hard to figure out how to deal with things like the Gateways, and Section 31 books.

Invasion and Day of Honor were simply part of each line's respective number system. (Invasion #4 was also Voyager #9, for instance.)

Actually, Invasion! was the only crossover miniseries that was numbered within each TV series. Though all one-series miniseries were typically numbered within their series as well, giving us things like Star Trek #89: New Earth, Book One of Six: Wagon Train to the Stars. My Brother's Keeper wasn't numbered on the actual books, but got numbered in the booklists anyway.

 

[Turbo]

I've found it rather ironic that the numbering has stoped as books have become more interconnected. Although, I guess if they were to be numbered it would be kinda hard to figure out how to deal with things like the Gateways, and Section 31 books.

Invasion and Day of Honor were simply part of each line's respective number system. (Invasion #4 was also Voyager #9, for instance.)

Actually, Invasion! was the only crossover miniseries that was numbered within each TV series. Though all one-series miniseries were typically numbered within their series as well, giving us things like Star Trek #89: New Earth, Book One of Six: Wagon Train to the Stars. My Brother's Keeper wasn't numbered on the actual books, but got numbered in the booklists anyway.

You are correct, sir. My mistake. (That's what I get for only double-checking Invasion!)

 

[Stevil2001]

I remember because I was very distraught when Day of Honor was unnumbered. I may have complained about it to John Ordover...