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So. Tell me about book sorting! My problem: around 800 books across a very, very wide range of subjects, with two subjects (anthropology and science fiction (top level genre)) dominating. How finely grained a sort do you find useful? Are thematic sorts useful? (For example, I have a collection of books to do with London, and another to do with Cambridgeshire.) I tried a simplified Dewey system but Dewey totally breaks down with fiction, and is past the point of usefulness for social sciences.

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Wow, I just realized I have like three dozen or less paper books, everything else is electronic.

I would start with a section of frequently used books, alpha by author.

Next I would sort into fiction and non-fiction and then group within. If there's cross-over, group them together in subgroups - for example, if you have both non-fiction books on, say, French history and novels based on French history, you'd have a large group of French History that would start with the non-fiction alpha by author and then the fiction, alpha by author or title (whichever works best for you). If you have a large enough group - say, 30 books about World War II, you could break them further into sub-groups: books about the Euro theater in one group, books about the Pacific theater in another.