TBH the level of defensiveness about this reminds me of the people who were insisting that that guy who sawed his copy of Infinite Jest in half to make it marginally less cumbersome to read on the subway was ~a GENIUS, actually~ https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1283153324619952128

I mean yeah, from a *purely aesthetic* point of view, color-coordination does look nice. But from a practical standpoint it indicates that the owner of said books doesn't revisit them very often unless they own a very small amount of books.

Half of the wall space in my apartment is taken up by bookshelves. Fiction is arranged alphabetically by author/ chronologically by release date, anthologies by genre, graphic novels by genre and/or franchise, nonfiction by subject. If I were to color-coordinate I'd be 100% lost

Then again, I did learn from the Marie Kondo controversy that a lot of people will apparently buy books, immediately shelve them, and then never actually read them. My unread books are consigned to designated unread book stacks so I don't lose track of them

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