I've been giving a lot of thought to the best way to sort my bookshelf and I'm curious, how do other people set theirs up?

Right now I have separated my books by format and then alphabetically by author. Separated by hard covers, paperbacks and mass market paper backs. I have my hardcovers on a riser and the mass market paperbacks go in front because they're short.

Also opinions on stacks? If I have a bunch of books by one author, in the same format I turn them on their side and stack them to save space

I've done other set ups in the past, I've organized by genre and then by author and I've even organized by height

Any of yall get fun bookish tattoos? I want a crow perched on a stack of books.

(If you have HP tattoos I don’t wanna hear about them as I am trans and do not want to hear about that)

is there any way to look at a series vs a book? in other apps when you open a book it tells you if the book is in a series and where in the series it is and you can open the full list from the one book. i was wondering if there’s a way to do that on here too

This post is obviously inspired by this recent post in the movie quest forum, but it's a small problem that I don't have a solution for yet.

So I work at a biiiiig bookshop as a help, and sadly we have a medium-to-big sized Harry Potter section with books, merch and candy. I can't do anything about that.

About my circumstances, I'm handling the customers at the cash register. Usually there's the option to check with the online shop and adjust the price of an item (downwards), which is something I haven't done so far for HP books/merch unless asked. I didn't want to encourage people to buy more stuff, but it also means a bigger win for the company 🫠 I don't feel like I'm in a position to say anything about the customer's purchase, either.

So how are you, if you're also working in the field, dealing with this situation? What are some of your (realistic, please, I like my job) suggestions? And please tell me I'm not the only one conflicted about this* 😭

*I couldn't care less about HP, there are much better wizard books out there (like Sorcery and Small Magics, if you're asking for a queer recommendation)

Edit: spelling mistake