If you have a large home library, what system, if any, do you use to organize your books? We have between 1,500 and 2,000 books with maybe half or more of thar nonfiction with roughly the biggest categories being art, philosophy, reference, and how to. Quite a lot of zines and ephemera which present some storage problems. Also a lot of poetry.
I used to have a personal system when it was just me and I had fewer books but it always broke down. Now I’m wondering, should I use Library of Congress categories for the nonfiction? Something else? I’m not looking to catalogue everything. This isn’t a lending library. I just want to find things on my shelves.