How does everyone organise their books? I still need to get a proper bookshelf, but at present I have my books piled in a less conventional but more satisfying for me chronological order, for the paperback sized books at least. I find satisfaction in being able to slot the prose fiction amongst the novelisations.
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Nice little collection there. All my books are digital so I don’t have them displayed. Since COVID I’ve got rid of most of my physical books and moved over to digital.
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These are actually just the ones I have read, minus a couple VNA’s and EDA’s I have read but not reached as I am now reading through the series in order. Once I’ve read a book its being added to this collection!
I have tried but I just can’t do digital books. Much prefer physocal ones, plus I consider it a break from looking at my screen.
I just put them in the order I read them/am planning on reading them
I had limited space at the time of my culling. Now I have more space but I’ve grown accustomed to my Kindle. If I win the lottery I may go on a book buying spree and fill some shelves.
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I don’t have the room for physical these days and I prefer to read on my phone (I have an e-reader that syncs between pc and mobile)
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I also read digitally.
The only book collection I’ve had was the entire works of Terry Pratchett - I was a huge fan and had all his books. Then I moved house and sold most of them - the rest are in boxes in my garage.
Since then I’m 99% ebook, only getting the odd physical book when that’s the only way I can get it. I’d like more physical books but don’t have the space right now.
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I still have a full shelf of Pratchett. Got all of the ones I bought when I was a teen. He is my favourite author.
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I’ve tried ebooks and I have read a few but real books win every time. My shelves are heaving!
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I’ve got ebooks of the VNAs and some other Who books, but most other books I get actual proper paper ones of, I just like being able to whip out my kindle and read wherever i go usually
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My arms are weird and its a pain to hold up a book for some reason so phone is ideal for me
We own a lot of books, and we used to only read physical ones. Then I got a Kindle, fell in love with its simplicity, and began reading e-books almost exclusively. My wife finally converted once she realised how much money we save on subscribing to book services and buying e-books rather than buying physical books (she is a fast reader and reads any book in like 2 days, so she usually reads 100–200 books a year!). So now we have loads of books sitting on our shelves and in storage while we do our reading on our Kindle and our phones, unless it’s a book we cannot get hold of digitally.
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I only really buy books as ebooks these days, but I bought a bunch of physical ones historically that are still around, either in boxes, in the closet, or floating around. A hardcover of Terry Pratchett’s “Going Postal” tends to end up getting read occasionally, or Christopher Stasheff’s “A Company of Stars”.
(For that matter, I really should reread my physical copies of some of Craig Shaw Gardner’s books sometimes, like “Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies”…)
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I not so much have a Doctor Who bookshelf as a mess of a Doctor Who cupboard:
And just a bit on the shelf:
And an e-book reader as well of course 
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I see that lonely VNA lying there on its own on the lower shelf. It’s either so good or so bad that it requires a space of its own 
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You spotted my space where I keep the next book to be read 
Quite looking forward to it the way it was set up in “No Future” actually 
I have a handful of ebooks but much prefer physical. My Big Finish is all digital though. I also don’t collect Doctor Who novels, I’ve got some reference stuff (About Time and aHistory) and have slowly been The Collection Blu-rays, but I have an excellent library system so do nearly all my reading through them.
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I don’t have any Doctor Who books, but I do have quite a Star Trek collection, shown here with my illiterate flatmate:
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Definitely read a few of those!
Peter David’s pretty good at writing Star Trek books, and I’ve read a fair bit of Barbara Hambly. On the fantasy side of things, I think her Darwath trilogy is pretty good… (Okay, she’s written more than three books in that universe, but…)
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