Hi there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm

here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the

things that don't. Today is episode 228, five ways to organize your books. In

fact we're talking about five different personalities of book organization, so

hopefully you will see yourself in one of these. So we all have different

challenges when it comes to organizing our books, but I think the biggest one

that no one talks about in at least organizational conversations is comparison.

We all have different numbers of books, approaches to books, patterns of

reading our books, ways we choose our books, but when we talk about organizing

them and what we do with what we have, we get like a little squirrely that

there's only one way because we're comparing ourselves to other readers, we

think are doing it the right way. So if you love to read and you have a lot of

books, you might call yourself a hoarder and then feel bad for all the unread

books that you own. If you don't own many books at all, you might feel like you

count as less of a reader because you don't have towers of bookshelves. If you

have unorganized stacks, you might wish your books were ordered better. If you

have very ordered bookshelves, but then you see people with cozy stacks of

books next to every chair in the house, you wonder if you're too uptight. We

compare this kind of thing all the time. And so today I want to talk about five

ways to organize your books and then some questions for each to kind of help you

nail what you need to do to be a genius about your own personal library based on

what matters to you with zero come parison. So the first thing I want to start with

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