5 ways to streamline their paper library

Photo: Alexander Melnik

Nowadays, more and more people prefer e-books with paper; but I am sure that among the readers of "Layfhakera" many of those who have a good old-fashioned home library is not on the "e-paper", and it is normal. And if in e-books easier to clean up the mess, then what to do with paper volumes? here 5 ways to organize paper books.

Method №1: Create an electronic catalog. If the books you very much, and you at the same time often gave the book to friends and acquaintances, then it is impossible to keep track of everything. Come to the aid of Google Docs, any office suite and create a table with labels and indicating to whom and when you gave a particular book and when approximately you must get it back. And not to be confused, in addition to the title and author of the book and enter another number in your library. Number the books - is the work of a maximum of 1 hour, but the systematization of a large paper library is much more effective, than the translation of all the books in the digital format by scanning or searching electronic copies in both legal and pirated libraries.

Method number 2: Create a paper catalog. Just as in the previous embodiment, on paper (large pad or fat binder). It fits most people to the elderly and those who are firmly attached to the paper planners and prefers pen and notebook pages screen and keyboard.

Method №3: Shelves on the topics / types of books / authors / color covers. One of the original ways of classifying, peeped me once in a thematic book blogs within Tumblr. If the authors of the classification and titles in alphabetical order, habitual and familiar to almost everyone ever since the use of the school library, the Classification by color covers - standard solution, but there are those who just love it :) At the same time you can make the book a tool for decorating interiors.

Method №4: Systematics in Evernote. Take a book, take pictures of the cover, add a note, a note with the title, author, year of publication - all from your smartphone throws in a separate notebook catalog on Evernote. The most meticulous "book lovers" can still book for each name to generate a QR-code with the data, print it out and stick on the cover of the book, and then, if necessary, just hover your smartphone camera at the code - and all the data about the book and its owner are displayed on the screen of anyone who has taken you to read a book from home paper library.

Method №5: The directory GoodReads or similar services. So you can not only organize your entire library with data storage on the web, but also leave a review of the read books, find friends interesting options for reading books, share books with friends, or buy second-hand book. Moreover, the circle of using social networks for fans of reading is quite wide: you can even carry something like the theme of the book blog.

If you have your own paper library, share in the comments what you are doing with the books and how sistematiziruete them.