Aibu to do this in bookshops?

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I love browsing bookshops and could spend hours looking at the shelves thinking about all the books i need to read.

I have a confession to make. Sometimes, In book shops, I make books I love more prominent. I’ve been known to make mini displays of them. Or move a copy to the bestseller display to fill a gap. If there’s a pile of them on a table, I separate the piles so it fills a greater area of the table. Don’t get me wrong... I don’t mess up my local bookshop but I might “accidentally” put the book back in a different place.

I feel somehow like I might make a tiny difference to sales (even if it’s just a few copies). My dh thinks I’m crazy but it really does give me great satisfaction that I might have helped a shopper find a hidden gem of a book that they otherwise might have missed.

Does anyone else do this? Aibu to give my favourite authors a little help every so often?

Well thank you barktwain I do try

Sorry OP, that was the dog in me showing, growling, because I wanted to go for a walk and it was too dark and scary. I don't know what a book is anyway. Off to sleep in the sun. Hope I can cuddle you better soon OP🐕

My books are dewey decimal shelved. Someone on twitter posted a pic of a book shelf organised by colour of spine, it was a thing of beauty and now I'm itching to do the same.

OP

Have you heard of book crossing?

A friend of mine taught me to do this. I was really surprised. Thought publishers paid to be prominently displayed. But my friend goes round making highly isible stacks of her favourite books, and turning them cover out on the shelves. Perhaps OP is my friend?

I'm delighted to see that booksniffing is a thing ... a small thing, may be, but at least I don't feel quite like a complete loon any more.

I have a wall of bookshelves that are colour coded. It is the best thing in my house including DH

Years back I used to very deliberately hide Gina Ford parenting books. Trying to follow it left me hospitalised with severe PND and I never want that to happen to anyone else.

I still do it sometimes!

Do you have any charity secondhand book shops nearby? We have one and they are always looking for volunteers. Of course you may find that you are treading on someone's toes if they always do the display but you might find that you can make a difference.

Oh yes pleeeeease face out any really good reads!

Recently was wandering through market when a book cover jumped out at me. Just had to buy it. Took it on holiday - read it in 2 days.

Best psychological thriller I've read in a while!
Was a fairly easy read (iyswim?) but totally a head spinner!

Called "escape"

I sort the piles on the tables out. Can’t stand it when people put them back in the wrong place! I also like sorting racks of clothes when clothes shopping, bras are a speciality!

IHeartKingThistle

I have a wall of bookshelves that are colour coded. It is the best thing in my house including DH

Ooh how does that work then? A coloured sticker on the spine?

I tidy up the bookshop shelves. I can't help myself. I'm a librarian by day so it's in my nature.

But I swear on my life, when I'm in charge of the country, ... All books shall be a uniform height. And once the first in a series is published, any following books have to retain the same spine format. No more mismatched series shall be my battle cry!

I hate rainbow shelves. I love Booktube but I switch away as soon as I see a rainbow shelf in the background because you can guarantee that they're a YA fan and while there isn't anything wrong with it, it isn't for me.

I put the books in a series in numerical order — it really annoys me when they're random! I'm sure they're supposed to go in order — it makes it easier for people to find the one they want, surely?

I like to " feature" my new titles

Oh, me too! A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is currently faced out on my bookcase. It helps that the cover is beautiful.

For some children, it is super-undermining to discover that their fave choice "belongs" a category aimed at a "younger" audience e.g. "9 to 12".

I know. I used to work with reluctant readers. Undermining is the right word. When you take a 14 year old into the bookshop because he's finally found a book series he loves, and he finds it in the 9-12 section, he feels like he shouldn't be reading it. I'm in my 40s and there are some books in that section that I still love.

If I ever win the lottery - remind me to buy a ticket one day - I would buy a bookshop and fill it with the titles I love. Sales would be a bonus...

As an indie bookshop owner, this is a very heartening thread to read

Oh spirited they're not colour coded in that sense, I just arrange them by colour of spine! Each shelf has a different colour book on it. Looks awesome. If I want to find a book I do have to remember what colour it is though!

Doh!

Oh No that would do my head in if they were jumbled up.... although it can look really effective.

Yeah my sister's a librarian and isn't keen either. Hers are much more orderly!

But I swear on my life, when I'm in charge of the country, ... All books shall be a uniform height. And once the first in a series is published, any following books have to retain the same spine format. No more mismatched series shall be my battle cry!

You've got my vote Alpaca

Colour coded books.

I cracked, I have kept good old dewey for my text books but my cookery books, on a different shelf i a different room are now a beautiful rainbow.

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OP as long as I can find the book I am looking for, I am not really concerned at all, and you seem to be hiding no-one. Just hop you are going to your local independent bookshop if you are fortunate enough to have one.