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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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I sort and categorize my books thematically, not by any formal system. Like, my Bible, Koran and Talmud are obviously together, but on the same shelf as my GEB, Origin of Species and Grey's Anatomy. Basically, seminal works of all schools of thought constitute the theme. Science on one end, philosophy on the other, arranged as more of a spectrum than anything else.

My scifi and fiction are in the same bunch, and science/reference books on their own shelves.