organize my books

I have WAY too many books. I started organizing them in boxes, and sorting them to check which I should keep, and which ones should go. I plan on donating some of them to the local library, and only keep those books that I would love to read again someday. Others I could sell.

I’m on vacation that week and need to go through all of my books
donate those I’ve read and am done with
identify the ones I haven’t read and read them

I have too many books, I tried to organize them but I don’t have enough space, not enough bookshelves. That’s first problem.

Second, I wanted to catalogue them and organize them, I needed a software to do that, I tried to make spreadsheets, but since my books are in various subjects I didn’t know how to categorize them.
I also used a website “goodreads.com” and I like it a lot, but not for organizing books, only for discussing them.

My first question is.. Does anyone knows how to categorize books? I don’t need a pro thing like in big libraries, but do you have any solution for books that come under more than one category? On which shelf shall I place them?!

And my second question is.. anyone have a good application for organizing books? I heard about “ilibpro”, so if anyone tried it, what do you think about it?

Help really needed here guys.
Thanks :)

necessitated putting my dresser where my bookshelves were, and the bookshelves moved to the living room. I don’t know why I thought it would be smart to tackle all this today; perhaps because I have spent so much quality time in my apartment this week that I could stand its flaws no longer. Anyway, moving the books & shelves forced me to look at how hopelessly out-of-order my books are. I’ve never been one to organize my books except by vague “pride of place” arrangements that only make sense in my head. I’ve needed to move the bookshelves a few times since moving here, so now they don’t even make that much sense. Here’s a random sampling of one shelf, left to right:

Critereon Collection DVD set, Brazil

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Clear Waters Rising, an account by a man who walked an extremely long way but I can’t remember just how far right now

Wuthering Heights

The New Life by Orhan Pamuk

An antique, imperialist atlas

Cultivating Stillness, Eva Wong

Keep Going by Joseph Marshall

You Shall know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

I Like You (children’s book)

The Little Prince, Saint-Exupery

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

Thank You And OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan, David Chadwick

Teaching A Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard

Things Invisible to See, Nancy Willard

Last Love in Constantinople, Milorad Pavic

The Man In The High Castle, Philip K. Dick

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek, Dillard again

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

The PowerBook, Jeannete Winterson

Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor

Zen Physics, David Darling

my new fighting technique is unstoppable, David Rees

Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino

Amphigorey Also, Edward Gorey

the Tao Te Ching

Chuang Tsu

America in Passing, Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Zen of Seeing, Frederick Franck

and stuffed on top of these (this being the bottom shelf of the last bookcase):
Spanish for Dummies

Animations of Mortality, Terry Gilliam

A planning guide for the Appalachian Trail

A ziplock bag full of slides of my work

a detective novel that my aunt inexplicably sent to me

a book about caring for/coping with your Portuguese Water Dog

None of the other shelves make any more sense. I don’t want to alphabetize, but I do want to organize by general theme . . .

I finally organized all 2400+ books and cataloged them using librarything.

Now I just need to keep it up to date. It’s very satisfying knowing exactly where any one book is and fun to look through my collection.

I have way too many books- they will always be, in some sense, out of order. Though I’ll try to get them into some sort of order, I’ve given up trying to get them all organized.

My books are relatively organized already—they’re already sorted with like things together, etc. But I just have so many of them at home now since I took home everything I had at work. I’m sure there are things that I don’t need, so I could sell some, and all the others need a home.

I know where my books are now!

...enough anyway. I am satisfied with that for now. They look better in the office because they actually fit on the shelves. I imagine I’ll still weed out and straighten them as I continue to clean and organize this house, but for now I can check this off my list.

I ran the boxes that were packed up down to the basement. Now I have to tackle the shelves and talk to Jason about what stays and what goes.