Media Organization

Another exploration into the effects of my neurosis. This one, however, is so simplistic, it should be obvious -- DVD's, CD's, and books.

DVD

Arranged alphabetically by title. The only exception is in DVD collections. These should be arranged with the others alphabetically by the title of the collection and then chronologically within the collection.

CD

Arranged alphabetically by the artist; then arranged chronologically within the subset of the same artists. Compilations and other special case CD's go on the end arranged alphabetically by title.

Books::Fiction

Arranged alphabetically by author. If it is a compilation of many authors, the primary editor should be considered the metric by which to basis the alphabetization. If it is a translation (say, of Baudelaire translated by Fowlie or something), the original author and not the translator should be considered the one true author.

Books::Non-Fiction

Arranged alphabetically by title. Reference books (dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, etc.) can be arranged in one of two ways. They can be inserted within the non-fiction books according to what type of reference they are; that is; dictionaries go under 'D', thesauruses go under 'T', so on and so forth. Or, they can be separated into their own "reference section." If they are in a great enough number, like a set of encyclopedias, they should most definitely be separate. Encyclopedias, obviously, should be alphabetically ordered. Other non-fiction works that have versions or revisions, should be grouped together (which, they would be having the same title and all) and arranged in chronological order such as Programming Perl, 2nd and 3rd Edition.

And, there you have it. If you do it another way, it is sub-optimal.