Book color distribution

Every so often, I like to sort our books by color. I find the process relaxing and it makes the bookcases less chaotic-looking. This time, I decided to make it even more enjoyable by estimating the distribution of colors. This is a sample of about 10% of our Amsterdam books. I was limited by the size of our dining table, so the long tail of orange (7%), purple (4%), pink (2%), other (2%) and unclassifiable (2%) isn't in the picture.

via www.pinkair.com

What's the color spectrum of your bookshelves?

Comments

[nataliepo]

I expect visitors to look at the books on my shelves, so I arrange them in blocks according to which are the easiest to see: Fiction front and center, so we can talk about our similar tastes, Cook Books nearby where guests inevitably ask how many of those books I purchased on my own (almost none), Geek Books down below since there's not much conversation to be had about them.

[Ed Vielmetti]

I have way too many books in boxes in the basement; it's time to photograph them and set them free so that someone else can read them. (I'll save the photograph and use that as the artifact to share, I guess, is the theory.)

[nataliepo]

Yes, please do! A photograph of a book can be a photograph of a mutual friend.