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Organizing books by color: Which camp are you in?
On shelves throughout the land, books are being organized not by topic or author but by the color of their spines. Color-blocking books is a design trend that began a dozen years ago at hotels and in design magazines but continues to grow in popularity. Although it’s a bit of a hot potato in the design world, it’s a popular topic on blogs and on Pinterest. DIYers stalk estate sales for old books, peeling off the jackets to see what color hides underneath.
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That would drive me crazy, especially if it meant splitting up two books from the same author.
It makes sense to me as I will always remember the colour of a book, not necessarily where I left it on the shelf, I probably have over a thousand books so only having to search one block of colour would make life easier.
The idea of buying books in bulk purely as filler strikes me as a bit pretentious.
That may work for a personal collection that nobody else uses or is there as decoration and it may look organized on a purely superficial basis but I wouldn't choose to do it.
It's very pretty, but if you intend on actually reading any of them, you're going to have a hard time finding the right one.
I get organizing your own books by color... I would never do that, but whatever. But buying books specifically for color? If I ever went to a girl's place and saw this, I'd run the hell out. It strikes me as so supremely shallow and pointless... Books as fashion accessories. Shudder.