in thinking that a bookshelf on which the books are arranged by the colour of their spines

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...is one of the ponciest and twattiest things EVER?

I saw a pic of this in a magazine today - it looked lovely but WHY WHY WHY would you do that?

It screams pretentiousness and poncetwatickness. Or AIBU?

Oooh no, YABU. I know someone with a bookshef arranged by colour and I love it. Personal preference and all that.

I have my 'That's not my.....' books in rainbow order, but the rest are alpha by author & genre

OH oh! I was looking for that! Thank you Norks!

My 2 year olds favourite past time is pulling books off the bookshelves donut wouldn't last long in our house.

You can arrange by colour within theme. It does look better.

Wrong,just wrong!

AuntySib: my thoughts exactly! But Norks, I LOVED that youtube clip! Thanks so much for posting it :)

Dewey decimal.

I arrange by theme, height & colour. I am very particular and a little bit bonkers. No-one mess with my books.

That is headache inducing, Agentzigzag. I couldn't relax in that room!

mine are arranged by genre and within that by size.

I have too many books of a couple of genres and I have each laid on top of the others on its shelf, even though there is space on another shelf. I just can't do it I have to buy another bookcase but I don't want to do it yet because there will only be about 4 books on it and I will have to explain why I don't just put them in the spaces on the other shelf and then everyone will know I'm weird.

So I don't judge making a rainbow out of them.

I have a collection of beautiful hardback childrens classic books which are in colour order on a bookcase in our lounge, they are rarely read but look lovely

All other books are kept on a bookcase in my bedroom grouped by author but it rarely looks tidy, it looks like what it is a bookcase of well loved books

I've done it and it looked great. And bollocks to my books not being well loved or not finding anything - I read mine so often I know what colour they all are without having to think about it.
They're not rainbow since I moved though - I've smaller bookcases all over the house now so it doesn't work. Now they're in artful piles on the shelves and in a complicated filing system that only makes sense in my head. So the bookcase on the left of the landing has Books I Like to Read in the Bath Or When I'm Quite Tired Actually. Right hand side of the landing has Books from Childhood and Murdery Type Books.

But the spine of a book is often different from the front cover. And loads of spines are black. Plus those in a series often match. So fiction by author and non fiction by topic. Large shelf at the bottom. Just like in a public library

kick loads of spines aren't black as well (see profile)

Must just be us, but terry pratchet, penguin classics and loads of dh's sci fi are. I need to get my own set of book shelves without any of his crap on, don't I?

Black was my smallest section, I had to merge with grey

I have two thousand books arranged like that

Mostly because I always remember the colour of book but not the author

And it looks nice

I do this - it looks good!! But only with my novels - the non-fiction isn done by theme, and all the poetry is together. I love my green/blue shelf the best

All my DVD are in alphabetical order, my books are a jumbled mess

Mine are arranged by colour. DS and I did it one rainy afternoon. DH was and claims he can't find his Haynes manuals etc, but they look fab. And I have loads of scruffy second hand paperbacks.

Sometimes youhve to blur your eyes up to see what colour a patterned spine really is

Can't get worked up about it. I do locate books because I know what the spine looks like, but I can do that for lots of my LPs too even though they're much thinner so my disorganised jumble works for me.

A beautifully colour themed arrangement would probably just show up the lack of housekeeping / decorating skill everywhere else here.

mine are arranged by colour..I like it like that