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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9686198" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I'm kind of partial to Author >   Publication Date of (first) Book (in series) > Publication Date within Series (if it is in one)If nothing else because I would smile when I saw the Narnia books in the correct order.Is Poetry outside of Fiction/Non-fiction?   If the poetry was willy-nilly mixed in with the rest of fiction I would never browse to find them.  And I think I would prefer the anthologies to be in a separate section from the collections - although the "edited by" on the spine would at least help locate them.Would the mixing of fiction genres similarly hurt browsing?  When I was younger, I'm not sure how many romance or horror or historical fiction books I would have started reading the back cover of before I got frustrated and stopped browsing - and I never would have started some sci-fi/fantasy series.Is classification in non-fiction much less arbitrary?  The books in my research field are mostly in either BF 39, BF176, HA1-32, LB3051-3060,  QA276-280 in the library - and it seems really, really arbitrary where some of the books end up.  Even in this case I think its interesting to look at the titles on the shelf of my targeted book when I go (more rarely than I used to) to pick one out - and I will sometimes grab an extra.  Having all the non-fiction just sorted by author for the whole collection would mean I probably wouldn't do that.Would you put graphic novels go with the rest of fiction or in their own section?</blockquote>

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