Sewnoma

I am a die-hard bibliophile and I read a LOT, so I actually purchased computer software and a barcode scanner (back before I had a smart phone!) and keep a database on my PC of all of my books.

I like it because I can do a .csv extract from my database and load that doc onto my phone (or in my pre-smartphone days, print it out) and avoid buying duplicate books.

Last time I checked I had over 1,000 books in the 'library'. Mostly sci-fi and fiction; and I've read every single one of them at least once!

My art & crafting books are kept separately from all my fiction; I organize them first by art/craft category (drawing/painting, bookbinding/paper crafts, soap making, beading/jewelry making, polyclay crafting, quilting, general sewing, etc.) and then for the ones where I have a lot, I sub-divide by specific topic - my quilting books are grouped by things like kids/baby quilts, traditional quilts, modern quilts, art quilts, scrappy quilts, bargellos, books of blocks, books about quilt history, etc. I keep these in my "design studio" (which is newly separated from my "sewing room"). I probably only have about a hundred or so art/crafting books overall; maybe 30 or so quilting books, so it's only a small percentage of my 'library'.

I don't like to borrow books because I'm a re-reader, and I like to flag things for later. Lots of my crafting books have post-it note flags sticking out of them. I can't quite bring myself to write IN a book, unless I find a mistake that needs to be corrected. I do the same with my quilting magazines, but I don't scan those into the library software. I do get rid of magazines eventually, but almost never get rid of books.