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    How do I display lots of books?
    Karen Parziale
    Home Stager & Interior Designer
    Karen Parziale is a Home Stager, Home Organizer, and the Founder of The Real Estate Staging Studio based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Karen has over 15 years of home staging and decorating experience and has staged over 5,000 homes. She specializes in project management, space planning, material selections, and builder, architect, and client relationships.
    Home Stager & Interior Designer
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    Try displaying your books by height vertically, going from tallest to shortest. To add some extra interest, stack some of your books horizontally, too.
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    How do you store too many books?
    Karen Parziale
    Home Stager & Interior Designer
    Karen Parziale is a Home Stager, Home Organizer, and the Founder of The Real Estate Staging Studio based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Karen has over 15 years of home staging and decorating experience and has staged over 5,000 homes. She specializes in project management, space planning, material selections, and builder, architect, and client relationships.
    Home Stager & Interior Designer
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    Stash your books an underbed storage container. Some brands make really large containers that can hold up to 66 quarts (62.4 L). They're typically see-through and have rollers on the bottom, which is really nice.
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    How do you decorate with a lot of books?
    Karen Parziale
    Home Stager & Interior Designer
    Karen Parziale is a Home Stager, Home Organizer, and the Founder of The Real Estate Staging Studio based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Karen has over 15 years of home staging and decorating experience and has staged over 5,000 homes. She specializes in project management, space planning, material selections, and builder, architect, and client relationships.
    Home Stager & Interior Designer
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    Use books as décor or props in your home! For instance, if your living room has a lot of yellows and whites, you might place a book with yellow cover on your coffee table.
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    How do I alphabetize books by title?
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    You go in alphabetical order by the first letter of the title. Most people do not count articles (a, an, the) as the first word to alphabetize. Go to the next word.
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    What if I don't know the genre of a book?
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    Go to the website Fantastic Fiction and search for the book or author on the site. When you have found the book, the site will tell you what the genre is, underneath the bibliography.
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    How can I organize library books?
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    You can organize your books in alphabetical order, by title or by author, depending on your preference.
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    Which letter is silent in the word scent the s or the c?
    Community Answer
    C. Confusion might come because you try to eliminate each word and hear how it sound and it appears the same for both.
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    Do I organise books by title by the series name or by the name of each individual book?
    Torpi
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    Organise by the series name, and then order the series by reading order (book 1, book 2, etc).
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    How to organize books of the same author?
    Torpi
    Top Answerer
    You can organise books by the same author by title or by publication date, whichever you prefer.
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    Do you organise alphabetically by first name or last name of the authors?
    Seasalt25
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    Most of the time books are organized alphabetically using the last name of the author, and then if 2 different authors have the same last name, you'd sort them by the first name. If you have different books by the same author, you'd sort them by the title.
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