was to free your mind, not fetter it? Alphabetisation is the most banal approach to bookshelving going: who wants their living room to look like a lending library?(Not to mention the problems that arise when you come home from Waterstone's with, say, Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End, and have to spend half an hour shifting everything from Julian Barnes onwards an inch to the right to accommodate it.)
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Bookshelf etiquette. How to arrange your books
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