Last month I picked up a pair of those angled metal brackets from a local shop in Portland to hold my largest reference books on the bottom shelf. They looked sturdy, but after 2 weeks the left one folded like paper under a full set of encyclopedias. The next morning I found my entire row slanted and two books with cracked spines on the floor. I swapped them for a solid wooden block style and zero issues since. Anyone else have brackets fail on deep shelves, or do you just avoid metal ones altogether?
After she pointed out that my rainbow arrangement made it impossible to find anything without a treasure map, I switched to grouping by author last spring and now I actually use my library instead of just staring at it, anyone else make the jump from pretty to practical?
Had my library organized alphabetically for 8 years, looked real professional in photos. But I kept losing stuff because I'd forget the author's last name. Swapped everything to a rainbow layout last month, roughly 600 books. Took two full weekends and a lot of swearing, but now I can spot any book from across the room. Plus guests actually stop to talk about the arrangement instead of just nodding at rows and rows. Anyone else ditch the standard systems and go with visual organizing?