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Unpopular opinion: The color coded shelf system my sister swears by actually made things worse
My sister came over last month and helped me reorganize my study, sorting everything by cover color like they do in those fancy bookshop displays. It looked great in the photos she took, but now I cannot find a single reference book without scanning every shelf. I keep about 300 volumes in that room, mostly local history and field guides, and after three weeks of hunting for my 1998 Tulsa county atlas I gave up and moved everything back to plain alphabetical order. Has anyone else ditched the aesthetic approach for something that just works, or am I the only one who thinks function beats looks here?
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evan_harris142mo ago
Three weeks of rainbow-hunting for a Tulsa atlas is basically a scavenger hunt with extra steps, so I respect the rebellion. My mom did the same thing with her cookbooks and we lost her chili recipe to the orange section for two months. Color coding looks great for strangers, but alphabetical is the only system that answers when you call its name.
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