The DU Lounge

Where does one fit on the scale of OCD, for example. How many besides you will be accessing these books with any regularity? Are there children in that group?

For what purpose(s) will you pull books off the shelves, and for how long?

I have something in the way of 1,000 books here now, not counting 500 or so cookbooks, after casting off an equal number or more when we down-sized during Covid. I've always tolerated a fairly high degree of chaos in my resources (wife not so much!), but I find it hard to imagine a rigid library-like, DDS frame for a home library. There are crude groupings on my shelves, music, gardening, hiking/mountaineering, movies, etc., but I don't treat it as a reference library. Sometimes I can't go straight to a book I am thinking of.

And a visit from a couple granddaughters over the weekend that left children's books, which had all (100+) been nicely sequestered in a large basket scattered from one end of the house to another, was a valuable reminder how we can overestimate our control.

Good luck with your project!