Fiction is all fiction; trying to categorize it beyond that just makes me sad when I have to try to deal with the edge cases. It gets filed by author and title, with the author I am most likely to think of being preferred if there are multiple.
Non-fiction is broadly by subject then title. (Not author because I'm more likely to remember the title if I don't remember both author and title. That is, "That book with the bad teapot on the cover...The Design Of Everyday Things", not "That book about design by Donald Norman...") Choose subjects that make sense to you; you're not making a library for other people; if you can find what you're looking for, that's perfect. The system is by nature an extension of your idiolect.
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Date: 2013-07-08 05:07 pm (UTC)From:Non-fiction is broadly by subject then title. (Not author because I'm more likely to remember the title if I don't remember both author and title. That is, "That book with the bad teapot on the cover...The Design Of Everyday Things", not "That book about design by Donald Norman...") Choose subjects that make sense to you; you're not making a library for other people; if you can find what you're looking for, that's perfect. The system is by nature an extension of your idiolect.