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(55,656 posts) Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:28 AM Sep 4

Bibliophiles! A little help/advice. [View all]

I am currently having to take an inventory of my personal library. I have almost 500 books. I just met with a carpenter to have a special bookcase built. Once that happens, I will be arranging my books in one place. My questions are:

-- how would you arrange your library? (I'm thinking of groupings like politics, religion, hobbies, languages (almost 100 books in 27 languages) and such. )

-- are there any apps or programs that I can use (free is best, but not necessary) to catalogue my books?

Thanks!

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Bibliophiles! A little help/advice. [View all] Behind the Aegis Sep 4 OP

You can read 27 languages? applegrove Sep 4 #1

There are apps for cataloguing physical books LearnedHand Sep 4 #2

Use the Dewey Decimal system. murielm99 Sep 4 #3

It Seems to Me a Very Personal Thing The Roux Comes First Sep 4 #4

Roux had some good questions. I love books. Me, I'd go for a loose grouping by subjects. electric_blue68 Sep 4 #5

If you use Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress system, shelving books in number order will automatically eppur_se_muova Sep 4 #6

My personal library is done in Dewey Decimal Coventina Sep 4 #7

LibraryThing or Libib chia Sep 4 #8

I have at least that many, scattered everywhere in the house. ms liberty Sep 4 #9

Most books published in recent times have on the publication leaf... NNadir Sep 4 #10

Just musing about my books, and storing them... electric_blue68 Sep 4 #11

Keep it simple LogDog75 Sep 4 #12

Dewey Decimal or i'ddo Figarosmom Sep 5 #13

My wife and I have thousands of books organized loosely by our interests. hunter Sep 5 #14