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Here's a question. I bet you haven't been asked before. If you had to categorize a stack of books, would you categorize them alphabetical order by width or by height off below
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:06
Okay. So this is definitely my kind of question. Alphabetical, definitely. And I am near my books right now, and they're all perfectly organized alphabetically. Although I have added another organization principle into this alphabetical ordering, which is I have all the books I still have to read in alphabetical order at the front of my organizational bookkeeping here. And then following that is all the books I've already read in alphabetical order
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:43
Personally, it depends, because if I'm talking about a bookshelf or things like that, alphabetical order would definitely be what I would do and what I do. But if I'm talking about, like, carrying a set of books because this actually came to me whenever I was coming home from the library one time, and I was carrying books inside, and I was thinking I was like most people would probably just s***** up these books and just carry them in
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:03
And so many of them are stacked rather than standing upright. And I will say something that bothers me. A flaw with doing it in alphabetical order is the fact that sometimes the stacks look really uneven and sloppy. It does bother me. I will admit it. I'm not embarrassed. I'm a little embarrassed, but yeah, I think I'm might be a little similar in this way
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:34
Yes. Oh, my gosh. I am always reorganizing my books or pretty much anything. I'm a big organization, free. I'm constantly cleaning or organizing something, trying to get rid of something except for books. Because books are completely different and are my lifeline. But everything else. I prefer a very minimalism approach. Books, plants, home school stuff. I'm a bit of a hoarder for, but everything else can just go away
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:08
I don't know what that means does not compute. I have a ton of books I don't really organize. It just kind of put them away. And I'll be very honest. The other day, I was looking for this book, and I'm just looking to my shop. I'm like, I know, I put it somewhere here. And so I did other first can and I couldn't find it
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 1:25
So I do not have a lot of books and my default organizational order for the few books I have has always been width and height the biggest one. And then and then I go down to the smaller ones, and it always bothers me that the last one will never stand on its own and it will keep falling off. So I have to actually Scoot it a little to the right and then have it lean over. But anyways, this is a great question
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:49
I just wanted to say that that is actually a really cool idea as far as organizing books by color, I believe that would look so cool. I don't know if I could personally do it, but I might be able to enjoy be looking at it for a minute. Just a minute though. Yeah
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 0:27
Well, I'm the type of guy that always organizes my book by height, because it's mainly by height, because, you know, your books will look kind of stupid. They're all staggered, and they're not organized. It just looks silly. So for me, it's the hype
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 0:37
So one thing I forgot to mention is that the reason I don't have a lot of books is not because I not read, but well, of course I don't read as much as I think I should be. But most of my books, most of my reading happens on Kindle and on the online platforms, and that's where all my books are and searching through them. Of course, online is just a query away
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:10
I feel you there. Most of mine are online too. On Kindle or overdrive or something like that. It's a lot easier
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:26
So I have this problem with my books. They don't behave. When I go to bed, I wake up. Somehow they reproduce. It just has happens, like one day I'll look and I'll be like, Where did all these books come from? I mean, it's not like I did anything. No, but they just kind of happened. But on a more serious note, to be very honest, I have gotten books in the mail
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:40
So curious if any of those books are in any of your sex, or if any of you have a special staff that is surrounded by a fortress of other books, slightly less special but still very loved books
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:53
Luckily, my husband is terrible at reading comprehension, so he doesn't like books, and he doesn't like reading very much. He's trying to get better, but he is more of a podcast and audiobook reader. And whatnot? Because I'd be terrified if he was in the books because he is a hoarder and he is not organized whatsoever. So, yeah, that would be bad. Thank goodness my books reproduce. It's amazing
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:43
Rachel, I am personally a huge scifi fan, so a lot of my books are in that genre, but I actually have a specific, like a really specific taste in books. I really love post apocalyptic thriller, like in the perspective voice, in the perspective of each character. I have three different series right now that are my favorites that follow other same pattern that's supposed to possibly lift it through realtor. And the chapters are made up into different perspectives of each of the people
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:56
That isn't Sci-Fi, but I would consider it like a post apocalyptic thriller, so it may fit your genre taste a little bit. So I'm curious to hear if you've read that or if you've seen the movie adaptation and would love to hear any recommendations you have. I'm always adding to my list, and I am really into any kind of thriller and anything with any sort of like mystery element to it, too
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 1:17
Oh, the Pure Trilogy. I loved all three. I actually got to other fifth book or the fourth book versus four or five of The Mage Runner, and I read like a little bit into it. But then I decided I couldn't read it anymore because they had switched up characters in it, and it really threw me off, and I couldn't finish it. And it still bugs me. It's been years, and it still bugs me as far as the road goes
Meranda Troutt
@MerTroutt · 0:15
And it's great that you love to hear the kids in the background because I can't make them be quiet because they're just insanely loud all the time, you know. Yeah
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:27
Yeah, it's good, but it wasn't like all the light you cannot see for historic fiction, like World War II. If you're thinking World War II, obviously, Nightingale, all the light you cannot see and Lilac Girls, right. It wasn't that it was called Name Hola. Okay, fine. Big deal. So yeah, once you start reading more of the category, then you start knowing
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