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I've acquired a few card catalog drawers and cards. I intend to make a title-sorted card catalog for my personal library, shelved using an idiosyncratic subject-based system (not DDC or LCC).

Now I have to decide exactly what to put on the cards, in what format.

Empty wooden card catalog drawers sit next to some blank cards on a table by a sunny window.
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Nelson Chu Pavlosky
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
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Ok, I have a tentative format. Title of the book on the first line, then shelf location on the 2nd line. I think I'll put non/fiction + subject first to describe the shelf, then the house floor and room that shelf is in, so the latter could be struck out and changed more easily.
Three filled-out catalog cards perch on top of a typewriter. The first reads: Energy and civilization : a history / Vaclav Smil. NON Collapse 1Parlor And then publisher, subject keywords, LCC/DDC,ISBN.
in reply to Nelson Chu Pavlosky

Nelson Chu Pavlosky
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
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I'm not sure if it's better to sort cards by author or title, tho. I lack the patience for both.

My shelves sort by subject, and within each subject books sort by author, so I thought an author's books would already be grouped together. But some authors spread across subjects.

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