Silly things I wonder about

[shadesong]

I'm tidying up, and I have in my hands a volume of interactive fiction created on a mailing list, Twight Cafe. This portion of the story was primarily authored by morenasangre and her then-boyfriend, now-husband.

Do I shelve this under her maiden name or her married name? Input, morenasangre?

(yes, all of my books are filed in alphabetical order by author and chronological order within author. CDs, too.)




Comments

[yendi]

Both would be hypocritical. You insisted that we put the Peter David and John M. Ford Star Trek Books under "Star Trek," even though I bought them because of the author. The same rule clearly applies here. This should get filed under "Twilight."

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Ah, except for this one fact: Any future volumes of Twilight will be forthcoming from morenasangre. There will be no other authors. So surely this ought to be filed under her name... the only question is *which* name.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're basing your filing strategy for this volume on future volumes...won't the future volumes be under her married name?

[azurelunatic]

Far, far too many bookstores shelve LMB's books under McMaster.

I sometimes take the liberty of reshelving.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah. They file Charles deLint under "L" sometimes, too....


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[azurelunatic]

Sillies. Heh.

I wonder what they'll file me under, when I finally get published?

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

File it under Married Name, since it's mostly a cooperation between Farren & I, that kind of covers both authors in one fell swoop. :P

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Married name it is! :)


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[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

According to honest-to-goodness shelving tradition, you should assign each one a library of congress number and shelve it under that. That way ALL her work in the same GENRE gets filed in roughly the same place. Then you can have yendi help you install a card catalog program on your home pc like they've got at the Emory Library and... Well, if the work was honest-to-goodness published, then the authors as listed should be: primary author's name at the time, last name first, then secondary author, first name first, at least bibliographically. But then, I'd have to side with Yendi on this, since I shelved all my Bond movies under "J" for James...

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

You need to see High Fidelity.

I organize my CDs by genre and band associations. Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio, and Blackmore's night all get grouped together, for example. Helloween leads to Gamma Ray leads to Edguy leads to Avantasia... It all makes sense in my mind, really. Movies and books are arranged by much the same way, when they're organized. They're not, now, 'cause I don't have enough room for them all, so I don't see the point in organizing them.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Seen it *and* read the book. :)

When I first moved up here, it took yendi and I three days to organize the books. Not like three post-work afternoons and evenings - three full days, sunrise on beyond sunset. He'd never organized his books - and he had a lot, and so did I....


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[yendi]

I've always organized my books (and DVDs). Just using different systems.

[melvh.livejournal.com]

I do that, too. Alphabetical by author/group anf then chronological by initial release date. Except that Series get racked together, even if other stuff came out in the interim.

My sister once said I was obsessive & proceeded to put all my red books together, all my blue books together, and all my black books interspersed equally among everything else.

I coulda killed her.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Dude. There are Things Very Wrong with your sister.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

*shudder*
*head twitch*
Therapy!*twitchtwitch*

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

My books are sorted by topic, first. Then...well, honestly? My fiction shelves are double-shelved, with the ones I re-read the most in the front. Authors have all their books grouped together, yes, but they're in the *front*, so they don't have to be alphabetical. ^_^ You'd probably look at my bookshelves and twitch, and rearrange 'em. Heh.

No, really, my bookshelves are sorted by *topic*. All the SF books take up about three shelves. Magical/religious studies take up one, but they're beginning to overflow. Textbooks have another shelf...I'm missing a few shelves in here somewhere. The religious studies shelves are grouped by topic within that topic...Celtic books in one spot, Wiccan books in another, shamanism books all together. That's just the way I work. I could not *begin* to tell you what my favourite author is on any serious topic; I don't remember the names. So sorting them alphabetically would screw me all to hell...I'd have to scan the entire collection to find what I was looking for.

This does not sound like many books, for a bibliophile. It's not, really. But this represents less than a two-year collection, during most of which I was dead BROKE. I left Mark in January of 2000. I took two book*shelves*, but I could have fit all my books into one half of one. The vast majority of our six bookshelves full (and stacks on the library floor) remained at Mark's; Iroshi's interests are *vastly* different than Mrs. Johnson's were.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, your system would drive me up the wall... :) I have all of our fiction together, then nonfiction by subject - pagan stuff, sex stuff, travel, biography, myth & folklore...