Bookshelf preparations

The new bookshelves should arrive tomorrow, so I have spent much of the evening preparing as best I can.  I don't have room to just pull everything off and leave it on the floor or a bed right now, so I've pulled off all the fiction and done so with that.  That was relatively quick; I didn't finish the LP I was listening to before I had that done.  Then I put the rest of the books in rough LCC order.  Since everything will be moving again tomorrow, I focused on getting it by the primary letter rather than anything more granular; I can do that when I reshelve tomorrow.

I used to shelve in Dewey, but I've worked in an LCC library for twenty years, and after a while, it became more intuitive to switch.  I do the fiction alphabetical by author, in publication order, but I'm considering splitting out the juvenile books into their own section.  There are some exceptions to shelving in LCC order: oversized books, TTRPG books (they are too heavy and need to go on a bottom shelf), knitting and sewing books, cookbooks, the Zane Grey books, and The Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature.

With the new shelves, I will have six additional shelves' worth of space, and I should be able to mostly avoid shelving items two deep.  I'll still need to keep the oversized and TTRPG books on a bottom shelf for weight considerations, and I'll probably put the Zane Grey books on a bottom shelf, as well.

I've also discovered that I can use TinyCat for free as a personal library, so once the bookshelf project is done, I can try to reconcile my Goodreads (1190 books tagged as owned) and the import into LibraryThing (1188 books tagged as own) and the actual collection, since I keep finding things on the shelf that aren't in either.  (I have been told we had a CueCat barcode scanner at some point, but it is either gone or buried in the attic.)

Hopefully once the bookshelves have all been swapped, I can find things more easily again, since everything won't be buried behind other books.  I'm apparently up to two full shelves of foreign language learning books, and that's one thing I'd like to get back into.