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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Most people would order physical books on shelves by author within genre.
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I'd think that sorting by series (within author) would be among the more universally used sorts, probably even more common than genre. I definitely want:
- The Hobbit
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- The Return of the King
- The Silmarillion
rather than:
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Hobbit
- The Return of the King
- The Silmarillion
- The Two Towers
I also usually split things into a few virtual libraries (Fiction / Nonfiction / Children's / Manuals), akin to how the libraries I grew up using split children's, fiction, and non-fiction into separate areas. I make sure every new book is tagged with one of Fiction / Nonfiction, and manuals and children's books are tagged as such, and then set up the virtual libraries based on those tags.
When viewing withing a virtual library, I sort by series and then author.
*Whenever I get a new device or appliance, I download a PDF of the manual from the manufacturer and add it to the library so I don't have to accumulate all the paper ones and keep track of them.