I suppose I should start putting all my books into my new shelf. CDs took for fucking ever and now I just can't be bothered.
Sitting here flipping the bird at the huge pile of books on my floor.
Firstly, what's the Australian website you found for book purchases, and is it cheaper than Book Depository which has free shipping?
Secondly, several months ago I made the decision to take all my cds (over a thousand) out of their genre groups (with the exception of black metal which has its own display with flags, books etc) and simply alphabetise them.
This was a mistake. It took me ages, and it was cool to be reminded about exactly what I had, but now there's no vibe to the collection. I used to have the cds divided into: black, death, folk, doom/gothic, traditional, general, hard rock/hair metal. Now it's one big mass from whatever 'A' band comes first to probably Zyklon or something.
Furthermore, it's in a spare upstairs bedroom where one of my daughters will eventually move into when she's a bit older, so even this arrangement is temporary. I need a permanent grim and frostbitten kingdom where I can reorder them into genres and live out the rest of my days with compartmentalised order.