World Book Day

West Coast Dreamgirl said:

Did you photochop them or move physical copies? 

When I took the first photo and looked at it, seeing the books in a photo led me to think they would looked better with the Observer guides at the bottom, so I physically  re-arranged them.  One on these days I'll try the rainbow effect, but C. is telling me it's time to go walking.  I'm taking the day off and I really don't feel like walking, but we're trying to keep at it every day.  Gotta stay young, ya know? 

brianlux said:

West Coast Dreamgirl said:

"Motivational" sounds so much better than another term people have used to describe my organizing fetishes... "anal retentive", lol.

> @brianlux

As far as collecting more than you are reading, I think that's great!  It's nice to have a selection of books at the ready for you next read, especially if you like a variety of subjects or genres and are never quite sure what you'll be in the mood for next.

> Exactly, the Japanese have a word for this but I cant remember what it is!

My one area that I would call a "true collection"- that is, books that I collect but don't expect to read many of them- are these Golden Guides and Observers Guides.  They're fun and they're really small, so you can have a big collection on a small shelf:

> I like your bookcase @brianlux have you ever considered colour coordinating the bottom three shelves into a rainbow ombre?

I agree with @pap, reading 17 good books a year is really good going

That's a cool idea, Dreamgirl.  My natural instinct to organize alphabetically (the colorful Golden Guides) or numerically (the mostly white-spined Observers guides) which is a very left-brained way to do things.  In other ways, I'm more right brained and my interests are lean far more to the creative than to logical.  So maybe that blows up the whole left-brain/right-brain theory, lol.

What this photo does show me is that I need move the larger Observers guides to the bottom and move the smaller Golden guides upward.  Let's see how that looks...

Better?

This looks more soothing @Brianlux
I like the rainbow effect as I'm quite big on colour therapy these days.

Night @Pap