Ever walk into someone's home and find yourself drawn to their bookshelf? Maybe you scan the titles, judge their taste a ...

Cassidy was an updates editor whose main responsibility is to write and edit articles on a range of home improvement topics. Her passion for lifestyle writing began with her editorial apprenticeship ...

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to organizing a bookshelf. Whether you sort alphabetically, by genre, in height order or something else entirely, if you can find what you need and you’re happy ...

I recently downsized. Without second thought, I easily purged clothes, DVDs, and relics from junior high. I sat with a large collection of CDs from the mid-'90s, and, one by one, piled up their little ...

The Bookcase is a three-dollar pocket database for your book collection, one that takes its role very seriously and might be best suited to people with a professional requirement to manage a large ...

Sharing your shelf is, in a way, sharing yourself. Every element —from the titles you choose to the way you organize them— says something about your personality and your interests. Who wouldn't want ...

“No,” I said after a pause so long my friend wondered if I had heard him. “Sorry, Wolfhart.” He had come to the office to help me sort and pack for my next ...

Shelf Life, a take-home exercise, makes you think more deeply about the paradigms you might be absorbing, perhaps unconsciously, from your own book collection. Scene from the Added Value book sale, ...

As a writer and reader, I have a lot of books — and my IKEA BILLY bookcases in this hallway weren’t cutting it. They felt hodgepodge and didn’t fit. Credit: Annie Wilson Credit: Annie Wilson The space ...