DE: Bookshelves

[cook_the_rude]

 How does your charrie sort their books? And if they have no (physical) books, why?

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[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka, Sabine, and Viv: No physical books... ~/o Cause they are living, in a digital world o/~

Sam Wilson: Alphabetical by author, then title.

Jessica: By when she read it.

Hank: Dewey decimal system, at present. I'm certain he'll come up with his own classification system at some point.

Dog: By whatever system the Clayr use.

[a1enzo]

Quicksort if he's starting from scratch, insertion sort if he's just adding a new book to the shelf. ;-)

[fairy_fixit]

HAHA! Only logical answer, I suppose.

[a1enzo]

I really, really had to.

[for_everyone]

I've found that SW writers/creators can be kind of inconsistent about this, but my headcanon is that actual physical books are rare in the SWverse, mostly existing in private collections and archives belonging to those with the wealth to maintain and preserve them, as well as some scattered ancient libraries and archives like the Jedi Temple on Ahch-To. Most people read stored texts from datapads/datatapes/etc. It's possible to me that Hera has never seen or touched a physical book - digital equivalent tech is cheap and widespread. Kanan likely did a handful of times in the Jedi Temple, but even they are mostly depicted as using digital archives for day-to-day matters. Maybe to a fault since apparently people could just sneak in and erase stuff and no one noticed or cared for years...

ANYWAY. Hera does regularly read texts on her datapad, though her reading is almost entirety utilitarian - if she were going to engage in something fictional, which she rarely does, she'd probably watch a holodrama. But she does sometimes like reading nonfiction for reasons that aren't of immediate necessity. Her files are... sorted, kind of, or at least she'd claim they are, but it's pretty low on her priorities so anything that isn't mission relevant is pretty haphazard.

Kanan is kind of similar, in that I don't imagine that engaging in fiction was something he grew up with - though I kind of imagine "contraband" action-adventure stories were sometimes passed among the younglings, and he has some nostalgic fondness for those.

[cottoncandypink]

I don't think he has any books. Maybe a few old college textbooks he wasn't able to sell, in the bottom of a crate somewhere.

Nichola has a small shelf of half-read fiction she's picked up at airports, and forgot about the second she got home from her trip. They're organised, as in they're placed neatly on a shelf.

[the_cupbearer]

Both Ganymede and Noriko have physical books, and quite a few of them! Ganymede tends to prefer the weight and feel of a book in his hands as opposed to a tablet or e-reader, but he also doesn't sort the books he has. They go on a shelf or in the bookcases, and he finds them at random, or by looking when he wants a particular book. Hannibal should be horrified.

Noriko has hers...kind of organized? They're all in a central location, which is a set of bookshelves, but she's also not the type to organize books much. She prefers electronic reading because it's lightweight and she can carry thousands of books in the space of one traditional style, so in that format they're auto-sorted alphabetically by title.