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I hate to be a curmedgeon.....but I will anyway. I am completely sick of books as "adornment." Books are intedned to be read. Stacking them in some pretty way or, even worse, by color, has nothing to do with actual reading. Put them on shelves in ways that make finding them for the pleasure of reading them easier.

That said, this is a pretty wall! ;-)

Just please, PLEASE don't put them where the logs are. If you want to destroy a paper product put it as close to a heat source as possible.

This is the last thing in the world that would be attractive to me.

I just decluttered a (small) wall of books today.

(Maybe when I go to put away the ones I kept, I'll be inspired.)

anotherDCfan--
So, when you are NOT reading the beloved books, what do you propose?

Why *can't * books be (also treated as) adornment in the home of an avid reader?

"i just loooove books, they're sooo decorative."

--gloria upson, in her best conn lockjaw in auntie mame

Patrick --

Point well taken........as for me, I organize them generally speaking by genre and author, to make it easier to find a book when you want one -- in other words, by content, not container. In a house with thousands of books, it's pretty hard to find anything otherwise.

But there's no point in being too dogmatic about it either, you're right.