Question: Do you ignore a, an, and the when organizing your lists, or do you include them exactly as written?
I recently ran into a situation that made me completely rethink how I organize my reading lists. For years, I’ve ignored “the” when alphabetizing book titles, but I didn’t apply that same logic to “a” or “an.” It honestly never occurred to me that I should be treating all three articles the same way—until now.
That got me wondering how other readers handle this. Do you organize your book lists alphabetically at all? And if you do, do you file titles with the article included, or do you alphabetize based on the first meaningful word that follows it?
For example, would A Court of Thorns and Roses be listed under A or C? Does The Night Circus live under T or N?
I’d love to hear how you organize your shelves, spreadsheets, Goodreads lists, etc.!
I don't have enough books to have to organize them in any particular ways but I do organize them by height and then author because I dislike how tall books stand besides short books.
ReplyDeleteIf I was to organize in a much particular way, I would go by author's last name - they do this at the public library so you can't go wrong with that. But if by title, I would disregard the/a/an - but it's kind of weird because without those the/a/an, the title sometimes don't make sense.
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I don't organize anything. lol
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