- Aesthetics in your organizing? Hipster Book Club seems conflicted and many just say “no.”
The strong aversion of the members to organizing books by color strikes me as peculiar, and I can’t help but wonder what the deeper reasoning behind it is. Are we too conditioned to accept organizing, especially of books, as one thing (genre, author, size)? Or are books viewed as the antithesis of vanity, and making them such is demeaning to their supposed value?
Some of these comments I found particularly intriguing:
“This might be ok for books that exist only as “accessories” but if you love your books, well, I can’t imagine any other way but alphabetical by author, with maybe side groups by genre and then alphabetical by author.”“I think these pictures are appealing, because books are nice and pretty colors are nice, so therefore the combination of the two results in a very, “oooh, shiiiiney!” response. But this isn’t terribly practical, and it feels a little demeaning to the books themselves.”
“Well, that’s the thing – it’s practical if you think in terms of color, shape, spatiality – that sort of thing. Give me a book, I can tell you what color it is and then, where it is on the shelf. I can probably sketch the book cover before I could find it alphabetically – and that’s exactly what’s I’m doing in my mind. Saves me time. Would it work for a city Public Library? Probably not, but then again, it is fun to see which books end up near each other (and then again I don’t run a city public library).”
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oh i love that idea of organizing books by color, i think a couple of years ago, adobe did this installation of an entire shop organized by color.
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I love it too! It just seems to really clean up the overall look of a room and makes a really bold statement.
It’d be neat to see the Adobe installation– I’ll have to look for it :)
I like the idea of shaking up our traditional views of organization for certain items. If I love my books, I’ll know where they are whether by author or color.
Hey Ashe,
Imagine my surprise, when I was checking out my morning stats, and found your URL.
Thanks so much for the kind words :)
Fascinating goings on, here, I think I’ll stay a while, if you don’t mind ;)
what a lovely room in the picture!
Clothes Horse: I absolutely agree! I think occasionally we need to have our views shaken up; if we didn’t, we’d have no idea what possibilities are out there.
Tali, please do stay!
Camille, if only I could make my own place as lovely & aesthetically pleasing as the one in that room!