(The method was published by H. Charles Romesburg in The New York Times Book Review this weekend, February, 2021):
Most people featured in By the Book haphazardly organize their books. I do the same, with over 1,000 books. I’d like to share my method of cataloging and retrieving them.
I hired a student of mine to use a cellphone camera to photograph the bookshelves (spines outward), organize the photos by room and shelf location and store the photos on my computer (iPad works as well).
Looking through them tells me where a book I want is and refreshes my memory of books that I’ve forgotten I have. My infirm body can’t retrieve; I give a friend the location and soon the book is in my lap. When I’m finished reading it, the friend puts it back where it was found.
H. Charles Romesburg
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